Sarah Walsh, "The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Are We Celebrating Indigeneity in Its Kind of Richest Sinn?
In chile, the group that's identified is the well. In latin cultures, orn countries identified as sucha all throughout the iberian peninsula, a italy and te cribbin. People really believed this kind of supposed germanic connection between chileans and austrians and germans. And so there was a feeling like, on the one hand, we can get this kind of connection to our ancestry by getting germanic peoples to come to chile. On top of it, they can do the work of wat, the term that often gets used as pacifying the mapuche. Also, germanic people like the cold weather, and that's what
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