Ethnic group versus race? Asian perspectives
Most Asian languages, even today, do not make a distinction between “ethnic group” and “race.” Furthermore, the term most used to translate the concept of “race” has a much broader semantic field with fewer connotations than in the West. This article supports this observation through a comparative a...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/alterites, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Appartenances & Altérités
2025
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Most Asian languages, even today, do not make a distinction between “ethnic group” and “race.” Furthermore, the term most used to translate the concept of “race” has a much broader semantic field with fewer connotations than in the West. This article supports this observation through a comparative analysis of Pāli/Sanskrit, Putonghua (Standard Mandarin), Thai, and Indonesian. The lessons drawn from this comparison shed new light on Western xenology as it has developed in the modern era, highlighting the tensions and confusions between academic and popular representations of otherness, and between identity ascriptions based on race or ethnicity. |
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