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Cultural Chauvinism: Intercultural Communication and the Politics of Superiority
Preface
Acknowledgments
Many faces of cultural chauvinism
Special case of Western values
Clash of cultures
Notes
Democracy is Western
Diplomatic dilemma
Western values as boogeyman
The torture dilemma
From dilemma to ambivalence
The Trump doctrine
Western press’s reconsideration
Notes
All things modern are Western
Africa: the ultimate in non-Western
Science/technology are Western
Humor, glitz are Western too
Are they really?
Notes
All things nefarious are non-Western
Practices alien to the West
Corruption is non-Western
Corruption paradox
Nationalism is non-Western
Notes
The hell of war is non-Western
Biafra and the African Europeans
Note
All things decadent are Western
Western values as decadence
The Muslim invective
Africans say no
Pressure and backlash
Of pornography, prostitution, and miniskirts
Notes
Immodest dressers and desecraters
Abusers of heritage, people, and nature
Contention not Confucian
The Kagame doctrine
Kagame turns the table
Notes
As democracies turn
Nigeria’s press is free, except when it isn’t
India: press freedom at ‘Internet shutdown capital’
Notes
Dark history of distinctions
Colonization as civilizing mission
Slave trade, slavery, and Darwin
Academia and the primitive
Race hierarchy in contemporary times
Otherness and a war
Notes
Who civilized the Greeks that civilized the West?
Negritude as Africans’ exceptionalism
Africa as cradle of civilization
Summation
Notes
Political convergence
Alienation and recognition
Tumultuous origins
The Enlightenment as fuel
Europe as bridgehead
Skepticism on convergence
Notes
Onward from the bridgehead
West’s ‘civil wars’ over values
Canada’s West coast Christian accord
Muslims critical of Islam
Notes
Cultural humility
The last history
Summation
Notes
Postscript
Note
References
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