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From Jew to Basque: Ethnic Myths and Antioqueño Entrepreneurship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Twenty minutes by jet or fifteen hours by bus northwest of Bogotá lies the department of Antioquia, with its capital, Medellín, second largest of Colombia's cities. Although the Andes serve as divider and incubator of a diversity oí patrias chicas, each with characteristic accent, folklore, and regional identity, the country of the Antioqueño, or paisa, remains one of the most distinctive. Unlike Colombians from other regions, the Antioqueño has typically been stereotyped as the alien. Whether he has been reviled as a Jew, lauded as a “New Breed,” portrayed as a Basque, a Swiss, a Yankee, or a Protestant, writers have used ethnic interpretations which minimize the Latin, the Catholic, and even the Colombian image of the paisa (Lipset, 1967:27,28).
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1980 , pp. 81 - 107
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- Copyright © University of Miami 1980
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