Lusotropicalism
The term Lusotropikalismus is a composition of Lusitania and trópico, the Portuguese name for tropical. This ideology advocated a historical and moral superiority of the Portuguese colonization in comparison to the other European colonial powers.
Although the history of the Portuguese colonies dating back to the 16th century, under Salazar's Estado Novo dictatorship of colonial institutions and a public education system were built only in the 1940s and 1950s. Here, some areas were not classified as actual colonies. India was considered as an independent civilization that have dealt in the course of history with European Christianity. Cape Verde was, however, as a result of a mixture of Portuguese colonists and African slaves who had been sent to a remote archipelago. The Cape Verdean culture was not referred to as colonial, rather than regional, and the local elite enjoyed special rights, such as the posting as colonial middlemen on the African continent. Angola and Mozambique were again as clearly African colonies and were given a special " Constitution": In an economic system that was based on forced labor, the population was divided into three categories: Portuguese citizens, local people and " assimilated ". These were locals who had to go through a trial period and had to pass tests to prove that they were Christians, monogamous lived, met the military and Portuguese languages . The share of " assimilados " never amounted to more than 1% of the colonial population.
As an outstanding thinker of the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Lusotropikalismus applies Freyre. The core idea of the Lusotropikalismus was a continental -wide, tolerant coexistence of the races or the idea of racial mixing, Gilberto Freyre what in his later publications the term " racial democracy " (Portuguese democracia racial ) used. However, Freyre had originally intended to explain only the formation of Brazilian society. In his main work " manor house and slave hut " (Casa Grande e Senzala ) before the term does not come, he coined it in the 1950s after an invitation to Portugal and its various overseas colonies. The term eventually won in the 1960s, especially in Salazar's dictatorship in importance. Here it was used to legitimize the Portuguese claim to the African and Indian colonies, but without exception, until 1973 declared independent in the Portuguese colonial war of Portugal.
After the collapse of Portuguese colonial rule of the postcolonial concept of Lusophone was created to denote the Portuguese-speaking world.
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- Helmut Brühl: If Portugal sings - Puzzling people of Lusitania, pages 136-142 (O mundo português ) and 142-144 ( marriage to the tropics ). Dietrich Reimer Berlin 1957
- Gomes, Bea: O mundo que o português Criou - From the invention of a Lusophone world. Wiener Journal for Critical African Studies 2/2001, vol 1
- Enders, Armelle Le Lusotropicalisme, théorie d'exportation