The rhetoric of human rights as the latest mask of ethnocentrism
Of Roberto Siconolfi
Source: Roberto Siconolfi
The mainstream political and cultural vulgate often projects us into very delicate discourses with the analytical ability of football team fans. One of these is the lightness with which issues of knowledge are addressedinternational politics, geopolitics, political-institutional conceptions, value systems, rights, conflicts and systemic events deriving from them (es. immigration). SecondImmanuel WallersteininThe rhetoric ofcandies. Critique of European universalism(2007) “there is nothing more ethnocentric or more particularistic than universalistic claims“, and never is a more fitting definition to describe the view on the Western world.
In the 1999, at a World Bank conference in Florence, an American economist said that societies struggling to become prosperous need a“suitable” cultural tradition. For neither tenth-century China, nor fifteenth-century Southern Europe, dominated by the Catholic Church, they had this “suitable” cultural tradition, then they failed. This greatly irritated the Chinese delegates who left.
Another episode occurred in 2000, at another important World Bank conference in Washington dedicated to “gender differences”. In the introductory report, a famous American feminist said that Africa was bad even before colonialism because thelocal cultures were “patriarchal”and “oppressive” towards women. Also in this case the
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