cultural imperialism
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A master of plotting and characterization, French uses the tropes of the detective novel to explore greater themes of class and cultural imperialism.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
And her dialogue calls attention to, among other things, colorism, queerness and the cultural imperialism of New Orleans tourism.
From New York Times • May 4, 2023
Titled after a Lt Col Kilgore quip in Apocalypse Now, there’s an element of the doo-wop era to this sweet song about, well, cultural imperialism.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020
Her criteria included the following: exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism and violence.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2017
They are chary of another period of "shock therapy" and of creeping cultural imperialism.
From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Vaknin, Samuel
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