Ordinary racism

According to Marc Jacquemain, this racism is present when one sees the other both as irreducibly different, and thus incapable of accessing the parts of the universal borne by one’s own culture, and at the same time as irreducibly singular, that is to say that the other’s own culture will contain nothing of the universal. According to the sociologist, the idea that there are other ways than our own of reaching ‘the universal’ often seems inaccessible to what must be termed ‘secular fundamentalism’.