Summary Of "The Indolent Latino" By Ignacio Martín-Baró: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

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THE INDOLENT LATINO

IDEOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF LATIN AMERICAN FATALISM

1. The fatalistic syndrome

1.1. The Latin American torpor

The author begins by recalling the novels of Gabriel García Márquez. In them there is a very widespread READING CONVENTION that refers to the CHARACTER OF LATIN AMERICAN SOCIETIES. Martín-Baró affirms that although the image of Latin America that appears there is a literary fiction, it is still marked by important elements of reality.
The most important of these elements of the Latin American reality is the idea that these peoples live something like a "forced siesta". LATIN AMERICANS are SUBJECTS SUBJECTED BY PROCESSES MANAGED BY OTHERS, by factors totally external to their will. This state is experienced in a SEMI-CONSCIOUSNESS that is expressed from time to time through PREDICTABLE OUTBREAKS OR SURPRISES.
This situation gives an APPARENT HISTORICAL STAGING in which the events are perceived as something unchangeable; they are the same in the past, in the present and will be in the future.

• Language: English
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• Release date: Jan 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201645472

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Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of The Indolent Latino By Ignacio Martín-Baró

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SUMMARY OF THE INDOLENT LATINO BY IGNACIO MARTÍN-BARÓ

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Martín-Baró, Ignacio

THE INDOLENT LATINO

IDEOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF LATIN AMERICAN FATALISM

1. The fatalistic syndrome

1.1. The Latin American torpor

The author begins by recalling the novels of Gabriel García Márquez. In them there is a very widespread READING CONVENTION that refers to the CHARACTER OF LATIN AMERICAN SOCIETIES. Martín-Baró affirms that although the image of Latin America that appears there is a literary fiction, it is still marked by important elements of reality.

The most important of these elements of the Latin American reality is the idea that these peoples live something like a forced siesta. LATIN AMERICANS are SUBJECTS SUBJECTED BY PROCESSES MANAGED BY OTHERS, by factors totally external to their will. This state is experienced in a SEMI-CONSCIOUSNESS that is expressed from time to time through PREDICTABLE OUTBREAKS OR SURPRISES.

This situation gives an APPARENT HISTORICAL STAGING in which the events are perceived as something unchangeable; they are the same in the past, in the present and will be in the future.

1.1. fatalism

FATALISM is a CONCEPTION that implies TWO ASPECTS:

 Idea of ​​an INEVITABLE FUTURE

 Feeling that what is coming is BAD AND UNFORTUNATE

FATALISM is an ATTITUDE OF LIFE, a WAY OF LOCATED marked by RESIGNATION and CONFORMISM. The most common FATALISTIC IDEAS are:

 Each individual brings a WRITTEN DESTINY in his life. This is already DEFAULT

 Individuals can do nothing to modify this destiny

 The destiny of each one of the individuals is attributed to a FAR AWAY AND ALMIGHTY GOD who is useless to oppose

The most frequent EMOTIONS or AFFECTS in fatalism are:

 We must ACCEPT THE DESTINY that touches us WITHOUT RESENTMENT OR REBELLION

 It makes no sense to experience great emotions (being happy or very sad) in the face of the normal and natural course of life

 SUFFERING is the normal state of life

From here it turns out that the most frequent BEHAVIORS are:

 Conformity and submission

 Passivity before the facts of life

 REDUCTION of life time TO THE PRESENT. The only thing that counts is the here and now, both for good and for evil

From this panorama, Martín-Baró thinks that a STEREOTYPICAL IMAGE OF THE LATIN AMERICAN REALITY is formed.

This is expressed through CULTURAL GUIDELINES that have found great diffusion in some GENERAL TYPES. For example, the wasteful and