Suriname: Nature and Culture. (account of a personal experience) (original) (raw)
2001, Suriname, Nature and Culture. account of a personal experience
The present text has a personal vision of the author, who also incorporates in it his culture and knowledge yet his view of the world of the time he wrote the text, time that he lived and worked in the Surinamese country in the year 2001. The work brings historical, geographical, ethnic and cultural aspects of Suriname with a foresight of a Brazilian and, in a way, brings the insight that he shares with his country many characteristics that are also present in Latin America, but with a completely different aspects such as the Dutch colonization that is so very much different from the Latin way, predominant in the rest of South America. Ethnic, social and political diversity, but also the configuration of its complex society, is surprising, being for the author a kind of alter ego of his own country, achievable manly by empirical observation of how the Surinamese people deals with race, face coexistence with sparse resources, live among deep differences and struggle to survive with democracy.
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