Cultural alienation refers to feeling disconnected or isolated from your own cultural background or feeling like you don't fully belong in the culture you are currently in. It can happen when you are unable to relate to the traditions, values, or customs of your own culture or the culture around you.
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This personal and moving short film revolves around the themes
of cultural alienation, abuse and the contrast between mythological greenlandic nature and western urban culture.
This inner poisoning of life... can not... be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression,
cultural alienation and the ecological crisis... The absence of meaning and the corresponding consequences of an ossified and absurd life are described in theological terms as godforsakenness... Faith becomes hope for significant fulfillment.
After describing the vicious circles of poverty, of force, of racial and
cultural alienation, of the industrial pollution of nature and of senselessness and godforsakenness, he proceeds to state what liberation from these involves.
As extensive examples show even in mature democracies, the mere recognition of civil liberties does not protect against various forms of social marginalization and
cultural alienation.
I would nominate this collaborative approach to abstract art as being perhaps one of the most necessary antidotes to overcoming
the cultural alienation outlined at the beginning of this essay.
Cheng's feelings as an outsider to New York and American culture at large play out upon its physical edge, where the experience of urban and
cultural alienation are described via landscapes of post-industrial abandon.
Combining painting, photography, collage, and printmaking techniques, Sanchez's art joins images of contemporary barrio life with memories of Puerto Rico, and addresses a fragmented Latino community fraught with political resistance and
cultural alienation.