| 2 (Anti-)
racist motivation
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| This personal motivation
may be a racist one (D. Néroman, 1983), as to mathematically prove Jewish
and Hottentot people are inferior, since their feet-navel and navel-head
proportion does not correspond to f
("not yet", following the "unpresumptuous"
author). However, to counter these eurocentrists who proclaim the frequent
occurrence of the golden ratio is a proof of Western superiority, some
committed multiculturalists, with an eventual political agenda, "discovered"
it on their turn in African statues or Arab mosques.
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An African (Senufo) and an Arab golden section discovery (Boussora 2004). |
