Meaning of Europeanity | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality or characteristic of being European.

uncountable

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“Rejecting the “Europeanity” and “Africanity” they see in Négritude, Créolité pleads for an internal vision of the Caribbean focused on the French Caribbean realities: “Lavision intérieure,” which can be reached by writing in Creole.”

“When setting criteria for "performative whiteness," both the degree of cultural assimilation, and value system adaptation (such as practicing Christianity, for example) of the applicants, as well as the initial Europeanity of the kin-group was weighed.”

“The discourse of Europeanity is one that combines 'we' with a collective political identity beyond the state. The emergence of the Europeanity discourse coincided with the end of the Second World War, when the legitimacyof state power and its ability to regulate human collectivity came into question.”

CEFR level