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The Reith Lectures: Robert Gardiner - World of Peoples: Patterns of Race Relations

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Patterns of Race Relations

Robert Gardiner - World of Peoples

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Robert Gardiner analyses the persistence of ethnocentrism.

Robert Gardiner analyses the persistence of ethnocentrism in his second Reith lecture entitled 'Patterns of Race Relations'. 

Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Robert Gardiner discusses the issues of race in his Reith series entitled 'A World of Peoples'. Born in Ghana, he has worked as the Head of the Ghana Civil Service, is a former Deputy Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Africa and has authored the book 'Development of Social Administration'.

In this lecture entitled 'Patterns of Race Relations' Robert Gardiner analyses the persistence of ethnocentrism. He explores how European expansion caused some of the problems but also highlights problematic interracial relationships which predated colonialism. 

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Robert Gardiner on how colonialism and financial inequality have affected race relations.

Robert Gardiner of the UN Economic Commission for Africa explores how issues of ethnocentrism, colonial authority and economic inequality have affected race relations.

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