Inter Cives Necnon Peregrinos

El autor, profesor emérito de la universidad de Kyoto, nos muestra un libro que trata, en definitiva, de que el lector conciba a Japón «como una civilización diferente de la suya y no sólo como un país de costumbres exóticas y extrañas».

1492 fue un año para no olvidar. Jamás lo olvidaron los devotos de dos de las tres religiones con que contaba la península ibérica en aquel momento. Aún hoy, entre sus descendientes, las palabras Sefarad y al-Ándalus hacen temblar sus labios y en su lengua se agolpan los ecos de oraciones lejanas. La decisión de los Reyes Católicos de expulsar a los judíos españoles y culminar el proceso de la Reconquista arrojando fuera de la península a los musulmanes aún tuvo continuidad en los siglos siguientes con la persecución a los judíos conversos y a los moriscos. La España expulsada...

For more than half a century, Cuba has suffered one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, where dozens of political prisoners are held in prison, and the entire population is locked up in a large penitentiary where neither dissent nor disagreement is forgiven, and the dissidents are punished with years in prison or death. It is a new oligarchic class, with a single political party, without elections, with an absolute disregard for Human Rights, without public and civil liberties, making it illegal to be part of the political opposition, with public education in the exclusive hands...

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