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...illegal immigrants from North Africa to be shelled. A popular campaign poster warns that native Italians will end up on reservations like their American counterparts as a consequence of immigration. The League now has control of the Italian Interior Ministry, while Berlusconi himself has proclaimed the “superiority?? of Western culture over Islamic culture...
...women as a synecdoche for an entire religion, society, or nation—especially in combination with Orientalist and Social Darwinist notions of Western superiority??is unbelievably dangerous. Subsuming the geographies, histories, and experiences of millions of women into the stereotypical image of the veiled, Arab (and, one assumes, “subordinate”) woman is simply inaccurate (there are over 110 million Muslim women living in the more liberal Indonesia alone). By creating a singular entity of Muslim women, Horowitz allows himself to adopt the voice of the “Muslim woman?...
...corrupting Harvard’s image of “social superiority?? just because I own fewer material things than other people? As a “non-college, blue-collar kid,” I think I am quite capable of “us[ing] Harvard’s resources as well as other people would,” despite Fitzsimmons’ fears that I cannot...
...loved his master more than he loved himself.” He contrasted this with the field Negro, the masses of the slave population. These slaves never got the benefits of living in the master’s house—the food, clothes, shelter, feeling of superiority??and they were infinitely more bitter at their plight than the slaves in the house. As he would put it, “if the master’s house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would?...
Racists have a tendency to “cede physical superiority?? to one group while claiming intellectual superiority for themselves, Campolo said. He urged Americans to work toward the belief that all racial groups have equal intellectual and physical capacities...
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