Porast rasizmov med pandemijo COVID-19 in ontologija rase: Medkulturna primerjava evropske in kitajske tradicije

This article takes as its starting point the cross-cultural problem of crisis situations that manifest themselves at the global level. COVID-19 is undoubtedly one such crisis. The article deals with the question of whether racism is a universal or a culturally conditioned phenomenon. It shows that racism as such is an ideational heritage of the ontological concept of race developed and established within the European intellectual tradition. By pointing out the differences between the essentialist and processual understandings of human beings, it shows that racism as a political and social fact is a specific heritage of European scholarship and is by no means a universally human mode of perceiving and categorizing people. By introducing the traditional Chinese models of relational and anti-essentialist concept of the self, the paper aims to show some new ways of perceiving interpersonal and intercultural interactions that can lead to solidarity and cooperation, which are urgently needed for devising comprehensive strategies of present and future confrontation with pandemics and other global crises.Pričujoči članek izhaja iz medkulturne problematike kriznih situacij, ki se kažejo na svetovni ravni in med katere brez dvoma sodi tudi pandemija virusne bolezni COVID-19. Ukvarja se z vprašanjem, ali je rasizem univerzalen ali kulturno pogojen pojav, in pokaže, da je rasizem idejna dediščina ontološkega statusa koncepta rase, ki se je razvil in prevladal v evropski idejni tradiciji. S prikazom razlik med esencialističnim in procesnim dojemanjem človeka pokaže, da je rasizem kot politični in družbeni pojav specifična dediščina evropske znanosti in da ni občečloveški način razumevanja oziroma kategoriziranja pripadnikov in pripadnic človeške vrste. S predstavitvijo tradicionalnih kitajskih modelov relacijskega in antiesencialističnega koncepta sebstva želi avtorica prikazati nove možnosti dojemanja medosebnih in medkulturnih interakcij, ki lahko vodijo k solidarnosti in sodelovanju, ki sta nujna za izdelavo celostnih strategij za sedanja in bodoča soočanja s pandemijami in drugimi globalnimi katastrofami