Valoración estética y vergüenza étnica: estudio psicosocial comparativo entre estudiantes universitarios (Ecuador-Venezuela).

This paper analyses comparatively the discursive construction of local ethnical shame through the aesthetic valuation from university's Ecuadorian and Venezuelan students of Education (Universidad Nacional de Educación/Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana). It is related to 5 photographs pairs with female/male characters, selected from local advertising posters and Internet which exposed: indigenous, creole-mestizo and Anglo-European ethnical features ("Folk", "Creole" and "International" Aesthetics respectively). Methodology: 80 mixed volunteer participants (40 Venezuelans and 40 Ecuadorians), decided on projected photographs pairs: "I like"/ "I don't Like" over themes: Students, Couples, Families, Girls and Boys. Then they wrote as many adjectives as possible. Results: remarkable differences on aesthetical valuation between participants allow interpret a high ethnic shame discursive construction shared by Venezuelans who systematically over valuated "International" Aesthetic whereas Ecuadorians alternatively valuated every aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]