what is cultural hegemony?
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A hegemony is the predominant influence over the others... while things may seem equal, there is always one person or group that is really "in charge" and influences the others. \n\nI would think that the one with the money makes the culture. Because all art needs an outlet whether is it on television, in movie theaters, on dvd, in publishing or even in an art gallery. \n\nYou could "do it yourself" and show it yourself but you will never have the audience these groups have access to. So the movie studios, television networks, publishing houses, record labels, etc control the mass culture. You have to go thru them to be seen by society 95% of the time.
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read this link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution\nand this one too,\nhttp://rwor.org/a/v20/960-69/966/redgrd.htm
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That's very, very vague.  Cultural influences among with nations or aspects of those nations?
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if you add more details to your question and tell me what you mean by culture, then i might be able to answer your question. ill edit my answer.
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This book is a classic enthnographic text that needs to be read by all those who are interested in revealling the social forces that shapes our lives as a people living under this last state of Capitalism, that others call a Globalised world. Even though Paul Willis was looking at Working class kids in England, I have found the application of his methodology applicable even in the context of a post Apartheid state like South Africa where we talk of the "historically disadvantaged learner" as an eupermism for the same phenomenon that Willis has studies.\n\nNice light reading matter there.
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How could they have no culture? Where there are people, there is culture.\n\nJust because a culture is different from yours, doesn't make it any less valid.
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Cultural diversity is the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the world as a whole. (The term is also sometimes used to refer to multiculturalism within an organisation. This article does not currently cover that alternative meaning.)\n\nThere is a general consensus among mainstream anthropologists that humans first emerged in Africa about two million years ago. Since then we have spread throughout the world, successfully adapting to widely differing conditions and to periodic cataclysmic changes in local and global climate. The many separate societies that emerged around the globe differed markedly from each other, and many of these differences persist to this day.\n\nAs well as the more obvious cultural differences that exist between peoples, such as language, dress and traditions, there are also significant variations in the way societies organise themselves, in their shared conception of morality, and in the ways they interact with their environment. It is debatable whether these differences are merely incidental artefacts arising from patterns of human migration or whether they represent an evolutionary trait that is key to our success as a species. By analogy with biodiversity, which is thought to be essential to the long-term survival of life on earth, cultural diversity may be vital for the long-term survival of humanity; and that the conservation of indigenous cultures may be as important to humankind as the conservation of species and ecosystems is to life in general.\n\nThis argument is rejected by many people, on several grounds. Firstly, like most evolutionary accounts of human nature, the importance of cultural diversity for survival may be an un-testable hypothesis, which can neither be proved nor disproved. Secondly, it can be argued that it is unethical deliberately to conserve "less developed" societies, because this will deny people within those societies the benefits of technological and medical advances enjoyed by those of us in the "developed" world. Finally, there are many people, particularly those with strong religious beliefs, who maintain that it is in the best interests of individuals and of humanity as a whole that we all adhere to the single model for society that they deem to be correct. For example, fundamentalist evangelist missionary organisations such as the New Tribes Mission actively work to reduce cultural diversity by seeking out remote tribal societies, converting them to their own faith, and inducing them to conform to their own model of society.\n\nCultural diversity is tricky to quantify, but a good indication is thought to be a count of the number of languages spoken in a region or in the world as a whole. By this measure, there are signs that we may be going through a period of precipitous decline in the world's cultural diversity. Research carried out by David Crystal (Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor) suggests that fewer than 10% of the languages currently spoken in the world will still be spoken in 100 years time. This rate of language death amounts to one language becoming extinct every two weeks. [1] [2]\n\nOverpopulation, immigration and imperialism (of both the cultural and old-fashioned kind) are reasons that have been suggested to explain any such decline.\n\nThere are several international organisations that work towards protecting threatened societies and cultures, including Survival International and UNESCO. The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by 185 Member States in 2001, represents the first international standard-setting instrument aimed at preserving and promoting cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue.\n\nhope this will help u
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I believe the word you are searching for is ethnocentrism: the belief that everyone else thinks and believes as they do. Such people have trouble dealing with social and economic problems in the world and in their own personal life.\ngood question\nCheers!
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There is a book called "The Twilight of American Culture" which talks about technology causing people to lose sense of national identity and kind of meld into a one world culture.\n\nIt's a pretty interesting read. The author is Morris Berman.
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what do you mean, "role of culture"?
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a subject stydin societies and their politics.
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Imperialism happens when a dominant country invades another country (through physical and cultural force) and restructures the economic/social/cultural function of its people; new imperialism or second-wave imperialism happens when an invaded country then invades another--or when the invaded country returns to invade the original, dominant country (as is happening culturally when American pop culture affects British culture)
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it's a side effect of multi-culturalism.
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Cultural mores and tradition.
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You are absolutely right.  Why are we pushing our failed model of democracy onto others?  How is our president comfortable with himself for pedaling that out to other countries?, just knowing that he was not elected by democratic means.\n\nto change a culture's attitude, something big has to happen, apparently bigger than 9-11 or Katrina.... ooooo! scary times!!\n\nIf you find out how to change a culture's attitude, then lets go to Africa to do away with some of the corruption and lack of women's rights, etc.; those things that keep AIDS spinning out of control.
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You are absolutely correct of course.\nWe bend over backwards to accommodate others that have come to our country to the detriment of what our society has always stood for and believed in.\nWe are a Christian country....so live with it.  They should assimilate themselves into the new culture not vice versa. \nThis does not mean they cannot keep their traditions alive.\n\nSeems everything is becoming a world culture now.  That is rather sad because we lose our differences  and what keeps things so interesting on this earth.\nIf we all feel, behave and think the same...we become zombies.\n\nCulture and tradition is a precious thing and it should be kept alive, not assimilated with everyone else's.
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"culture" is everyday, popular culture such as music, videos, etc. and "Culture" is high culture such as opera, ballet, etc.  In essence, culture is what a particular society defines itself as at a particular place in time.