Presented are the perceptions of different foreigners who came to Slovene lands in the past or in the present time, as shown in Slovene folk narratives. Despite often stereotyped picture of the ...Others, the research demonstrates an immense complexity of these narratives and the fact that they tell more about Us than about Them. The book ('The Mysteriou Stranger and the Demonic Enemy. “The Other” and Otherness in Slovene Folk Narratives') brings a theoretical overview of the current research on otherness in folklore studies and contextualizes the examples into a wider international folkloristic, anthropological and historical frames. Stories about the Turks, the Napoleon’s French and the Huns reflect an interweaving of historical facts, archetypical imageries of the dangerous Foreigner and ideological influences. These narratives are strongly embedded into the landscape and reinforce the sense of a common identity of its members. The imagery of historic aggressors is understandably quite different from the imagery of Jews and the Roma, with whom the people of the Slovene lands have had a completely different kind of contact.The same goes for contemporary foreigners from other countries. Nevertheless, they all display a high level of stereotypization, generalization and projection of fears upon “the Other”.
Dušana Findeisen piše o funkcionalni pismenosti in razpravlja o tem, kako je težko opredeljiva. Tako pravi, da se moramo zadovoljiti zgolj s tem, da opišemo značilne oblike te osebne in družbene ...disfunkcije, ki se spreminja s kulturnim okoljem in trenutkom družbenega razvoja. Ko omenja verbalnost, pove, da se funkcionalno nepismen človek tudi jezikovno in miselno oplaja le v svojem ozkem okolju in zato ni čudno, da se širših socialnih okolij boji. Izobraževanje in organizacija na tem področju sta povsem odvisna od ljudi, ki jih izobražujemo, in od tistih, ki so voljni takšno izobraževanje ponuditii. Tudi slednje je treba neprestano izobraževati, bodisi da gre za zaposlene strokovnjake, bodisi za prostovoljce. Vendarle pa to še ne pomeni, da jim lahko kar koli predpisujemo, jih kakor koli omejujemo ali nadzorujemo. Lahko jih zgolj spoštujemo. Podobno kot v Franciji pa bi bila potrebna politična volja na državni in lokalni ravni, da bi se dorekli mehanizmi izvajanja politike preprečevanja in zdravljenja tega velikega družbenega zla.
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