PERUVIAN RACISM
Culture, its diversity, the way people live, work, socialize, love, dream and create are – as the years go by – recognized throughout the world as pillars of human development. It is no longer possible to draw a single line of progress, neither sustain an idea of civilization that does not value the contributions of people or put aside traditions, knowledge, and complex memories. In the midst of the era of globalization, the differences between cultures are shown in all their potential, enriching our societies, their exchanges and future projects that they possess.
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Peru has had a tense coexistence with its diversity. It has been denied for a long time, generating situations of exclusion that are difficult for us to overcome. However, in the last years a set of important measures seek to overcome these problems. Racism is combated, the intercultural approach in management is promoted, languages are revalued, collective rights, what was previously less valued becomes visible.
The ministry of Culture is known – since a few years of its recent creation – as an actor with clear responsibilities and promoter of public management that is up to these challenges.
In that sense, we will present this post about Peruvian Racism that was motivated by Peruvian indifference to unfair situations, the normalization of "jokes" in relation to skin color, origins, and social status and the horrible work by the media, that are, in many cases, part of the problem; with the objective of growing as a country and living in a society where color, origins and social status are seen as something innate to the person.
In recent years, Peru has been developing a broad, very diverse and contradictory movement to revalue local identities and develop identities based on ethnic, religious, national, family and other belongings. Today, society is increasingly dominated by the relationship between global integration and cultural identity. Likewise, globalization is the development of closer social relationships that is expressed mainly in the media and technology allows people from all over the world to share information at the same time.
The reinforcement of local cultures has its detailed explanation in three factors. The first has to do with the divorce between the emergence of a globalized society and the cultural fragmentation of national unity that would be producing a social vacuum, characterized by deinstitutionalization and desocialization.
The second explanatory factor of the revaluation of local identities is the great cultural diversity that functions as an existing resource, itself demonstrating cultural heritage. In Peru, in the Amazon area, there are 42, belonging to 16 linguistic families; and, in the Andes, there is Quechua, the most widespread language geographically and the one with the largest number of speakers, and Aymara, present above all in the highlands of southern Peru14. Orlando Fals Borda speaks to us about the "sap of our ancestral civilizations" as cultural capital that induces the revaluation of what is ours.
Third, the resurgence of the indigenous movement in the Andean world. In the Peruvian case, an Andean vindication proposal has been developed by broad sectors of the population that considers itself more mestizo and chola.
Discrimination involves several factors, including: unjustified differential treatment and/or that it is based on skin color, origin, ethnicity, sex, language, religion, opinion, political affiliation, disability, illness, sexual orientation, identity gender, economic, social or any other condition. Likewise, that the annulment or impairment in the recognition, exercise and/or enjoyment of a right occurs (Ombudsman, 2021). Furthermore, discrimination is not only limited to acts in direct interpersonal relationships; but in the design and functioning of the institutions; that is, in many companies a change in organizational culture is not promoted, with the aim of avoiding the reproduction of long-established patterns of discrimination. Rather, its sanctioning capacity is low or null (IDHPUCP, 2020).
¿Somos o no somos racistas los peruanos?
Nestor, V.
Suzanne, O. & Juan, C.
In conclusion, as contradictory as it sounds, it is true, racism in Peru is something common and something that exceeds on a large scale, racism has always existed around the world, but the one that Peru has, is even an insult considering that the most of the Peruvian culture, it is about things that ultimately many discriminate against. Peruvians say they are proud to be Peruvians, to be part of Peru, but then they go around making fun of someone with a dark skin color or with indigenous traits, of the close, which have absolutely nothing wrong. Peruvians should learn to genuinely respect their culture, it should be a subject dealt with legally and carefully, not left aside or something that should simply be taken as a mockery or something light that is not capable of escalating to much worse things if they are simply going to limit themselves. to take racism as a common behavior and without relevance. The government should pay attention to the real things that are wrong in their society, what is really wrong and should really be eliminated beyond exclusion, which is racism. Thus Peru could improve much more as a society, and stop keeping us stuck in this constant struggle for nothing more than physical features of the person, it is a shame that was formed, generalized and normalized over the years, and that we must conclude The sooner the better, the more awareness of the situation, the more humanity, the more sense of justice and morality, it will be when we really advance as a Peruvian society.
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