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Cultural imperialism: History, Cultures, Measurement & Science

Cultural imperialism (also cultural colonialism) is the imposition by a dominant group of its own culture onto another community. As a mode of imperialism, it uses cultural practices to enforce a way of life, systematically attempting to transform or erase aspects of the subordinate culture. Cultural imperialism endeavours to create and maintain unequal…

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Cultural imperialism topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Cultures, Measurement and Science as prominent areas in the source structure around Cultural imperialism.

Related topics
150
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
154
Extracted relationships
236
Related term clusters
33
Bridge connections
154

What this topic covers Research coverage

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In history · 55 topics
Contemporary ideas and debate · 53 topics
Background and definitions · 32 topics
Overview · 10 topics

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Overview

Background and definitions

Contemporary ideas and debate

In history

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How Cultural imperialism connects Entity context

The extracted context around Cultural imperialism shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Cultural imperialism → African, After Roman, Alexander, Archaic Period, Aristotle, BCE, Black Sea, Britain, Central Asia, Cultural Romanization, Early Rome, Egypt, Etruria, Etruscan, European, Great, Greece, Greek, Greeks, Hellenistic Another extracted example is Cultural imperialism → Alan Steinweis, Already, Also, Cultural, Czech, Daniel Rogers, Europe, European, European Union, France, French, German, Germanization, Germany, Goebbels's, Hans Rosbaud, In Italy, Italy, Jewish, Joseph Goebbels. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Cultural imperialism

Top relations

related to Antiquity · 43
Cultural imperialism → African, After Roman, Alexander, Archaic Period, Aristotle, BCE, Black Sea, Britain, Central Asia, Cultural Romanization, Early Rome, Egypt, Etruria, Etruscan, European, Great, Greece, Greek, Greeks, Hellenistic
related to Nazi colonialism · 35
Cultural imperialism → Alan Steinweis, Already, Also, Cultural, Czech, Daniel Rogers, Europe, European, European Union, France, French, German, Germanization, Germany, Goebbels's, Hans Rosbaud, In Italy, Italy, Jewish, Joseph Goebbels
related to Other pre-Second World War examples · 24
Cultural imperialism → Allied, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptology, First World War, France, French, French Cultural Imperialism, Germans, History, Institut, Institute, Members, Napoleon, Napoleonic France, Paul Ruhlmann, Peter Hartmann, Rhine, Rhineland, The New Cambridge Modern
related to British Empire · 22
Cultural imperialism → According, Another, British, British Empire, Butlin, Danilo Raponi, Douglas, Edward Said, Empire, Europeans, Great Britain, India, Indians, Italy, London Missionary Society, Nandini Gooptu, One, Peers, Raponi, Robin
related to Post-colonialism · 22
Cultural imperialism → American, Edward Saïd, English, French, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Hindu, Imperialism, In Culture, Occident, Orient, Oriental, Orientalism, Sati, Saïd, Second World War, Spivak, Subaltern Speak, The East, The Enlightenment, West
related to Criticisms of "cultural imperialism theory" · 14
Cultural imperialism → American, Americanization, Critical Introduction, Critics, Cultural, John Tomlinson, One, Similarly, Summarizing, Therefore, Third World's, Tomlinson, US, Western
related to Dealing with cultural dominance · 14
Cultural imperialism → Clinton Administration, Columbia University, Commerce Department, Culture, David Rothkopf, English, Foreign Policy, In Praise, Internet, Kissinger Associates, One, Rothkopf, Rothkopf's, United States
related to North American colonisation · 12
Cultural imperialism → American, As Catherine Murton Stoehr, British, Canada, Canada's, Canadian, First Nations, Keeping, Miami University, Ohio State University, Origins, United States
has effect · 11
Cultural imperialism → Although, Another, Critical Studies, Critics, Furthermore, Mass Communication, Michael, Nonetheless, Salwen, Third World, Western
related to Poststructuralism · 9
Cultural imperialism → According, Following, Foucault, French, Machiavelli, Michel Foucault, Therefore, Truth, Western

Important terminology

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Important terminology

cultural imperialism culture western power media also social indigenous world influence empire cultures often colonialism studies theory hegemony term values

Cultural imperialism relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 236 structured relationships around Cultural imperialism. Examples in this analysis include Cultural imperialism → is a → term that is only used in discussions where cultural relativism and constructivism are generally taken as true and Cultural imperialism → is a → positive thing. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Cultural imperialismis aterm that is only used in discussions where cultural relativism and constructivism are generally taken as true0.90text
Cultural imperialismis apositive thing0.90text
governinginstance ofand into other realms0.80text
neoliberal governmentalityinstance ofwhich lead to various forms of culturally specific governmentality0.80text
freedominstance ofit involved the dissemination of American principles0.80text
democracyinstance ofit involved the dissemination of American principles0.80text
hair straighteninginstance ofCosmetic practices0.80text
contouringinstance ofCosmetic practices0.80text
and plastic surgery often try to reinforce these traitsinstance ofCosmetic practices0.80text
reinforcing narrow aesthetic expectationsinstance ofCosmetic practices0.80text
Cultural imperialismhas effectCritics0.60section
Cultural imperialismhas effectWestern0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Cultural imperialism bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Imperialism, Culture and Also. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Cultural imperialism
    • Imperialism
    • Culture
    • Also
    • Media
    • Power
    • Influence
    • Term
    • Western
    • World
    • Empire
    • Theory
    • Cultures
  • cultural imperialism
    • Imperialism
    • World
    • Culture
    • Also
    • Media
    • Power
    • Influence
    • Term
    • Western
    • Empire
    • Theory
    • Cultures
  • cultural hegemony
    • Imperialism
    • Culture
    • Also
    • Media
    • Power
    • Use
    • Influence
    • Often
    • Term
    • Western
    • World
    • Empire
  • cultural diffusion
    • Imperialism
    • Culture
    • Also
    • Media
    • Power
    • Influence
    • Term
    • Western
    • World
    • Empire
    • Theory
    • Cultures
  • cultural globalization
    • Imperialism
    • Culture
    • Also
    • Media
    • Power
    • Influence
    • Term
    • Western
    • World
    • Empire
    • Theory
    • Cultures
  • media imperialism
    • World
    • Studies
    • Media
    • Western
    • Foreign
    • History
    • International
    • Countries
    • Global
    • Power
    • Empire
    • Theory
  • electronic colonialism
    • Theory
    • Term
    • World
    • History
    • Global
    • Power
    • Colonial
    • Form
    • Media
    • Imperialism
    • Western
    • Cultures
  • economic imperialism
    • World
    • Social
    • Media
    • Political
    • Power
    • Empire
    • Theory
    • Term
    • Cultures
    • Countries
    • Form
    • Values

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Cultural imperialism, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Cultural imperialism with In history. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Cultural imperialism — In history · splits 99 ⟂ 56
Cultural imperialism — Contemporary ideas and debate · splits 101 ⟂ 54
Cultural imperialism — Background and definitions · splits 122 ⟂ 33
Cultural imperialism — Overview · splits 144 ⟂ 11

Map overview Semantic statistics

Cultural imperialism

Nodes155
Edges154
Triples236
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012903
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Cultural imperialism to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Cultures, Measurement & Science, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Cultural imperialism · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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