Right of the bat Cosmic Race has me intrigued with mentions of evolution and race superiority and relating it to the mestizaje. The words Cosmic Race lead me to believe this will be about the eventual race mixture of every child in the world. Not sure if how I feel about him saying that christianity was the factor that led to the “civilizing” of the south american indigenous. The author is definitely talking about atlantis because he knows this paper is gonna be to boring for anyone to stick around. \okay this guy is so wild I have no clue what he’s on about talking about like the anglo saxon/hispanic racial war. He discusses how we should find pride in our colonizers and laments/blames latin americas loss in the new world on napoleon. He also briefly mentions the 5th stage of humanity that will be ushered in by the white culture, not really sure what he means. Also Black, indian, mongolian, and white is a pretty simple way of putting it lol. “No Race Returns” he makes a pretty convincing argument in this paragraph that there’s no escaping the latinization of the continent. The “ethnic vision” has got me a little cautious reading this but I understand what he’s getting at in saying that the color of humanity will reach an end point. “the final empire of white supremacy” This dude has me inspired I have no clue what is going on but his argument is so captivating and understandable. The latin american tendancy to mix race vs the anglo saxon attempts a perserving a single race. This whole subject feels a little controversial but his argument makes a lot of sense and definitely isnt like an ethnic cleansing perspective. OKay so I skipped towards the last 6 pages and this guy has a really elaborate plan/prophecy for the joining of races that im not entirely sure is plausible. It seems to me that a lot of his argument is rhetoric and he spends most of his time convincing rather than proving. His end goal is a cosmic fifth race made up of all the best elements of each race as well as all their cultures combined. This is definitely an interesting perspective on culture or the future of it because so far I think a lot of us can agree that there is some boundary to mixture of cultures or the expansions of it (mosaic kind of thing)
Federico
hahaha your point about Atlantis was funny! Also, I liked how you wrote this post while you were reading the text simultaneously, opposed to how usually people first finish reading the text and then write the response (or at least that’s the impression I got).
I found the part regarding finding pride in your colonizers kind of messed up though, especially from the standpoint of the colonized people.. However, agreed, his argument about racial mixing was a step up from the Anglo Saxon’s attempt at preserving a single race.