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Ethnic Groups and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Gilberto Freyre
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In a very penetrating paper on “The Concept of Jewish Culture,” presented to the World Congress of Sociologists held in Zurich in 1950, Professor Henrik F. Infield pointed out that “some people born in one culture may find attractive the offerings of another culture.” Men born into some European cultures have for centuries experienced a special attraction not only toward tropical cultures but also toward tropical existence, life, and nature, with tropical women subsumed in nature and culture.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 7 , Issue 25 , March 1959 , pp. 41 - 59
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Copyright © 1959 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)