THE SPEECHES OF HATE: LANGUAGE AND RACISM IN CUSCO

Abstract

This article analyzes how racism is constructed with its own nuances from the national historical facts in the city of Cusco. In each process, in Peru and especially in Cusco, people have been “trained” to classify others socially and racially and we have also learned to discriminate against others who show some cultural trait different from our own. This training is done through socialization, where the use of acracist language is a fundamental piece of legitimizing these racist discourses. This semantics were used against indigenous populations, migrants and popular sectors to express hatred, contempt and negative feelings for reasons of prejudice, stereotypes and bad socialization. In this sense, the questions that guide this essay are: Why are we, as Andean people, racists and discriminators? Why do we continue to reproduce reprehensible racist discourses and practices in the 21st century? and what language do we use to racialize?