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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 Index

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