Using material from the Item and elsewhere, assess the view that media imperialism threatens ‘the cultural identities of many countries’. Media imperialism is the view that news is dominated by the West; as the media is linked to politics because of the benefits of capitalism, the effects of the media is threatening cultural identities with this same lifestyle which theorists such as Marxists disagree with. How media imperialism is threatening, what it is doing to threaten cultural identities and the effects of it need to be looked at to assess this matter properly. First of all it is how the Media imperialism is threatening cultural identities in other countries that is important to assess. The dominance and power of the west is affecting cultures.
Terrorism- a nationalist response to the effects of globalization Globalization of economy politics and social issues has made people and groups more insecure and uncertain. One main consecuence of that insecurity is to look for a personal identity and to search for a cultural identity. Globalization is the phenomenon that explains growth to a global or world wide scale(wordnetweb.priceton.edu). Nationalism is the loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially: a sense of national conciousness (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nationalism). 1.
Stabilized traditional countries by uniting rival people. Communication was a result along with new schools and hospitals. The cons of western imperialism were the World Wars were caused by imperialistic ideas. Competition raged the tension between nations. Heavy taxes on the smaller countries disrupted local economies.
(words: 956) In his essay The Underclass Myth, Adolph Reed Jr. suggests that the notion of an Underclass allows for and is shaped by the notion of ‘culture’ as having destructively innate qualities within the Underclass. This “naturalization of ‘culture,’” as he terms it, defies traditional contentions of what ‘culture’ means in that it is infused with the idea of ‘nature’ of the nature/culture dichotomy, and in that it works counterproductively for the group it describes. When it is used to describe or explain the disposition, attitudes, values and behavior of the Underclass, the word ‘culture’ serves to aggregate supposed members of the Underclass as a degenerate ‘people.’ It projects a set and quality of values, attitudes and behavior onto the Underclass collective in such a way that not only defines it, but also predicts its course. Citing the conventional Victorian ideas of race and class as interchangeable terms, Reed claims the innateness that the Victorians associated with both terms resonates in the modern discussion of the Underclass. In this way, applying a ‘cultural’ cause and nature to the idea of the Underclass necessarily takes away its ability to help itself (because innateness cannot be reversed), while it absolves those outside the Underclass of responsibility for it, in that it suggests a causal relationship between the plight of the Underclass and its own deficiency.
Karim Youssef ENGL – 103 02/03/2011 Section B English Essay 1 – Literary Analysis Research Paper Professor Giovannucci Perri Cultural Imperialism And Its Negative nIfluences I certify this is entirely my own work ( ) Is cultural imperialism truly hazardous? I for one cannot answer such a provocative question. Throughout my life, I have lived within countries influenced by westernized policies, and as a citizen of such a society, I have viewed both the benefits and the detriments of cultural imperialism. The mere thought of having an outsider attempt to change one’s cultural traditions raises criticism. The authors Chinua Achebe, Nasser Jubran and Gabriel Garcia Marquez are experts at analyzing how cultural imperialism promotes criticism and help me, the reader understand more clearly how foreign influence negatively impacts a culture.
The practice of seizing foreign markets for economic gain became known as imperialism. The United States, Japan, and all of the industrialized European powers began practicing imperialism. Soon, colonization became more of a land grab and less of an imperialist motivated action. Nations began grabbing colonies simply to increase their political power. A prominent case of this is the invasion of the Philippines by the US.
The decline of colonial empires after Second World War led to the rise of several sovereign states in the Arab world and elsewhere. Most of these independent states have been significantly influenced by imperialism and colonialism. Consequently, the need to achieve a functional reality was very demanding as was the need for re-creating national identity, which had been partially or completely damaged, corrupted and marginalized. In this context, a new mode of writing emerges as an autonomous literature that foregrounds cultural conflicts and puts into question the relationship between the centre and the periphery. This suggests that Arab literature produced after the colonial era significantly and consciously questions and challenges Western cultural patterns of knowledge, which played a crucial role in fixing the relationship between Europe and the Arab world; a relationship based on naturalising the superiority and purity of Western civilization and the inferiority and corruption of Eastern one.
Imperialism is defined as the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination. (1) With the freeing up of excess labor for many different functions and the Industrial Revolution in full swing, this saw the need for more resources and materials for production of unique items and the need for much larger amounts of resources. This led to nations wanting to expand their rule to gain access to resources. I personally believe that Colonialism led to Imperialism. European nations began by establishing colonies in foreign areas to gain access to new resources that could not be easily accessed in Europe.
One of the important concepts in his understanding of power is the defined word ‘doxa’ which is the combination of both norms and beliefs: the This would be described as a common sense or assumed resort. Bourdieu also uses the term ‘misrecognition’ which is closely resembled to the Marxian ideas of ‘a false conscious’ but working at a level much deeper that passes any intent at conscious influences by a group or several groups. Misrecognition is more of a cultural trend than an ideological trend, mostly because it expresses a set of active social processes that way down the common sense assumptions into the reality of social life and crucially they are born in the middle of culture. All forms of power require structure and culture are in the specific grounds where the conformity is disputed and eventually imbedded between agents, thus creating social indifferences and unequal circumstances. (Such as that with disability) Habitus is utilized
The study of nationalism has received a significant attention in the understanding of global politics. This is precisely because of the two political realities of our lifetime which are the territorial definitions and ongoing civil unrest caused by the social groups who believe they are marginalized in the international system. This is often in the name of separation from the dominant social groups or states. So the following essay will define and outline the different varieties of nationalism. Furthermore, the essay will also differentiate between a state and a nation to make an account of whether we are living in the world of states or the world of nations.