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rejection of the Other, one clearly reflected in the images, using an imagined scale
of one to a hundred. For the Anglo-Saxon images as for those collected by my East
and Central European colleagues the score varies from, say, ten to eighty with the
score rising massively in wartime, as yesterday’s neighbour or ally becomes today’s
enemy. In peacetime it can be as low as ten which simply means that the Other is
seen as oddly different and locally inferior, something which, as Herodotus noted,
is almost universal and which need not be a source of concern, although it can, of
course, be higher. In the case of the Jews, disliked or even hated by the anti-Sem¬
ites, the score for rejection might range from forty in Eastern Europe in the 1930s
to a hundred under the Nazis when they were pursuing their ‘final solution of the
Jewish problem’. No one else scores anything like as high, except the enemies of the
Soviet Union or other communist societies, who scored well over ninety when seen
by the rulers of that hateful society, which in turn affected the images. The figures
I have provided are, of course, imaginary but they put in perspective the wide and
fluctuating variety of images of the Other which should never be casually lumped
together—the differences far outweigh the commonalities.
Acknowledgements
My thanks to Dr Liisi Laineste and the ELM for inviting me, to the British Council
for funding me and to the library of the University of Reading for assistance.
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