... left with the image of a totalitarian system that seeks to subsume cultural difference and create a cultural monologue. Radical critical theorists, Adorno and Horkheimer, reveal that: "For civilisation, pure natural existence, animal and vegetative, was the absolute danger." They further argue that in the spirit of enlightenment, Indigenous societies, and in fact, "any living reminiscence of olden times, not only nomadic antiquity ... prejudices of a Eurocentric community. Setting racial prejudice and exclusion as the prevailing cultural dominant, through policies of "protection", assim...

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