Sentences with phrase «us cultural imperialism»

The left, however, for too long has been satisfied with talking about cultural imperialism and corporate exploitation, both of which are serious problems.

Yes, some have drunk the diversity Kool - Aid and think evangelization a form of cultural imperialism, but for the most part Catholics are triumphalists.

Leo Ribuffo on cultural imperialism and human rights, National Interest, Summer 1998.

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

Efforts to promote such changes in the guise of human rights are correctly condemned as egregious instances of «cultural imperialism» by which elites of certain rich nations, not least of the United States, attempt to impose their values on the rest of the world.

God has chosen the agenda of the text, and we must be content with the wisdom of these choices... The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism.»

We will have been defeated if we acquiesce in, or are perceived to have acquiesced in, the claim that the promotion of that belief is no more than an instance of the «cultural imperialism» of the West.

Criticism of many of the elements of historic Christianity, especially of its dogmatism and cultural imperialism, led to the suggestion that it had much to learn, as well as much to teach, in its encounter with other faiths.

The stories of both her Korean birth mother and the Korean woman who adopted her had shown her, she said, a history of classism and cultural imperialism.

However, in this case, unlike those of Socratic and prophetic existence, men experienced themselves as thrust out of preaxial existence by partly unwelcome forces, concretely the cultural imperialism of the Hellenistic empires, which drew men toward Socratic existence.

We might, for example, take a little out of the cultural imperialism bag and put it into the social - service category, and ascribe both phenomena to Western cultural conditioning.

I myself would prefer to speak of natural law grounding human rights (this is perhaps the only misstep in the book); but in any event his wider point is no doubt correct that only a theory of natural law can rescue the campaign for human rights from being anything more than disguised power politics or cultural imperialism.

The French who occasionally have expressed strong fears of US cultural imperialism have received «this shrine of American pop culture» enthusiastically despite some critics describing the Disney invasion as a «cultural Chernobyl» (Marguerite Duras).

An even more distressing example of cultural imperialism is the recent media campaign by U.S. tobacco companies to increase their cigarette sales overseas.

This is the least understood, yet potentially the most important form of cultural imperialism.7 During the past four decades, communication has become increasingly a central component in all industries.

As to the working class, it has always been the weakest party in the drama of bourgeois cultural imperialism.

This splitting the CSI planned to overcome, along with any residues of cultural imperialism brought by European and American advocates of the gospel.

The objection is that they represent cultural imperialism, or that they blame parents for being poor.

He believes that the potential positive outcomes of programs based on the belief that adult - child play is crucial for child development could be reduced by suspicions of «racism or cultural imperialism».

Many of the comments here are right to suggest that most political movements that emphasise cultural imperialism and «racial superiority» do not need any ideological coherence, but only a self - serving agenda and the right socio - economic «climate that favors growth.»

Neocolonialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization and cultural imperialism to influence a developing country in lieu of direct military control (imperialism) or indirect political control (hegemony).

Hugh Lawton and Marc Smith - Evans may unwittingly be indulging in cultural imperialism when talking about download progress figures of «4,100 %»...

But that only emphasizes the fact it doesn't take burning crosses to make a person of color feel unwelcome in everyday situations, especially when masculinity and a benign sense of cultural imperialism comes into play.

Some professors at Teacher's College and Harvard GSE even claim that TFA is just a new iteration of 1800s - style cultural imperialism.

So with this breed, we have everything that is wrong when Western cultural imperialism runs headlong into the world of dogs.

Blame it on cultural imperialism, the undeniable twee delight of appliqué birds, or the sheer convenience of ironic facial hair, just know this: The hipster has reached these international cities, and will no doubt continue to penetrate the far - flung corners of the earth (at least until the next trend strikes).

Diplomatic channels may secure your borders, cultural imperialism might expand them peacefully, or you could do things the old - fashioned way through military conquest.

This debate has raged for decades, with the name «Lord Elgin» is now all but synonymous with idea of cultural imperialism.

Certainly, Nathan Drake's success and appeal — despite his treatment of global heritage sites and artefacts — makes for an interesting exception in a developing public dialogue around cultural imperialism.

If you share a politically correct concern for cultural imperialism, call it Native American.

Heron, Patrick, «Part Two of the Report by the British Painter Patrick Heron on How American Cultural Imperialism Took Over Britain and the History Book Accounts», The Guardian, 11 October 1974

: CIA and the Cultural Cold War) details how the CIA financed and organized the promotion of American abstract expressionists as part of cultural imperialism via the Congress for Cultural Freedom from 1950 to 1967.

Evans said, «[I wanted] to look into the sign system of the house and the era in which it originated; our bittersweet legacy of colonialism and cultural imperialism.

The curation emphasises the distinct identity of Bilbao's collection and its development over the last two decades, brushing aside the typical criticism of cultural imperialism.

Not all industrial workers were able to gain new employment within the cultural sector, and some criticised the museum as «gentrification and cultural imperialism».

The correspondence between apparently formally similar works, remembered from one place to another, underscored the radical difference and cultural specificity of respective practices, for example the disorienting slippage between image and sound of Bruce Nauman's Lip Sync (1969), in relation to the sucking, swallowing, silencing and disgorging of mouths in Anna Maria Maiolino's Super-8 film In - Out (Anthropophagy)(1973), a critique of American cultural imperialism.

Rachel Wolf highlights a connection to «hybridity» that I think is part of the emergence of postcolonial discourse and critiques of cultural imperialism.

Boshier's work, steeped in the language of Pop throughout his six - decade career, speaks to the distinct vantage point of a British ex-pat experiencing America's cultural imperialism at its source, beginning in the Vietnam era and continuing today.

True or untrue, myths surrounding the early funding of the movement by the CIA in order to affect a form of American cultural Imperialism stick to the group; as does the pivotal position it holds in the canon of art history, as the turning point when «art» migrated from Europe to America following the Second World War.

«There were these leftists in Mexico who said, «Donald Duck doesn't represent cultural imperialism or the Yankee cultural influence anymore.

The official line is that whales are no more intelligent or special than cows, their expanding numbers are depleting fisheries needed by humans, and any complaints about killing them are hypocritical and little more than cultural imperialism.

Only the Preacher may interpret the Word — the others are heretics or the unwashed indigenous for the harvest of cultural imperialism.

Is it really a form of cultural imperialism to wish to completely decouple it from the real thing?

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Therefore, the entreaty of Latin America is for liberation from cultural domination, economic exploitation, military regression, social marginalization and political imperialism; it is an appeal for fairness in international trade and the establishment of a social order that promotes human dignity, respects democratic institutions and guarantees an equitable distribution of wealth.

This posture is assumed when those writers represent the major islands of Western literary tradition, the central cultural engine — so it goes — of racism, poverty, sexism, homophobia, and imperialism: a cesspool that literary critics would expose for mankind's benefit.

In South India, where I teach as often as possible, the racks at the front of the bookstores are no longer filled, as they were a scant decade ago, with volumes dedicated to the preservation of village life, or to the intellectual, cultural or social history of South Asia, or to the writings of spiritual and political leaders calling the people to overcome imperialism and colonialism.

Since it is inevitably subject to some cultural or sectarian imperialism, ethics in the abstract is so far from being a guarantee against anti-Semitism as actually to be the first step toward anti-Semitism.

But this makes it difficult for them to see the potentially negative affects of mass migration on the cultural integrity and future of a nation, harms akin to those of imperialism, which the Church condemns.

Which doesn't necessarily make their task any easier, for they must grapple openly with those — both on the progressive left and in minority communities — who are openly hostile to cultural judgmentalism and imperialism.

But what's clear is that there's a growing determination to expose and neutralise the cultural hangovers of colonialism and imperialism — whether they're exhibited in the appropriation of ideas or objects.