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The Mexican Indian: Image and Identity*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alicja Iwanska
Alicja Iwanska*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Sacramento State College, Sacramento, California
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In spite of the growing economic interdependence among contemporary nations, the rapid diffusion of knowledge among contemporary peoples about each other, and the existence of the United Nations, our times are characterized far more by flourishing of nationalism than by emerging internationalism. In fact, we have been experiencing the decline of universalistic thinking rather than its emergence. Great international organizations like the United Nations or the Common Market operate pragmatically rather than ideologically. We not only note with surprise the striking absence of new universalistic ideologies in those new international organizations, but we also observe rapid decline of the previously established universalistic ideologies like Catholicism and Marxism. Marxism began as, and remained for some time, truly international ideology.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , October 1964 , pp. 529 - 536
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1964

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Presented before the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon, April 26, 1963. This paper is based on the data collected during two periods of field work in Mexico under the grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

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* Presented before the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon, April 26, 1963. This paper is based on the data collected during two periods of field work in Mexico under the grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.