Climatism

The campaign to improve the image of Brazil in the eyes of foreigners, however, is likely to be thwarted by the rhetoric of the administration itself. Ernesto Araújo, Brazil’s foreign minister, last week raised eyebrows when he told an audience in Washington DC that the objective of “climatism” was to end “normal, democratic debate.”

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This refutation of climatism via regional identity formation was paralleled in the Scottish Enlightenment with the attempt to de-prioritize environmental explanations of human difference in favor of national character.

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In Indochina, this practice was rooted in various European and colonial (British India) practices. The transfer of the therapeutic and tourist uses of hydrotherapy and climatism responded to health and social demands. These uses progressively lost their medical aspect and became tourist practices.

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