Keywords
Nationalism
Melting pot
National education
Democracy
State
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyse the figure of the foreigner in the Argentina of the Centenary from the point of view of Ricardo Rojas. This author introduces the problem of the configuration of the national identity and of the State through the representation of “other”. The myth of the “melting pot”, in the thought of Ricardo Rojas, works as a strategy of assimilation- exclusion of the immigrant. On the one hand, the foreigner (in a political sense) appears as an “unexpected enemy” and on other hand, he shows an ability to go through a cultural assimilation in a way that brings a new argentine race. This article shows the atmosphere of the emergency of the “cultural nationalism” and the democracy at the beginning of the20th century in the Argentina.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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