Sentences with phrase «cultural superiority led»

Attitudes of racial and cultural superiority led to a suppression of Aboriginal culture and values.

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Ingrained perceptions of cultural superiority of one group over others have led to conflicts such as the European invasion of the rest of the world to «civilize» them, and of Hitler Germany's attitude of ethnic purification towards Jews.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.