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Read in its historical context, however, the Hanukkah story is really about a revolt against the Hellenized Jews who had fallen madly in love with the sophisticated, globalizing superculture of their day.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2013

Equally inappropriate, says Faye Wattleton, president of Planned Parenthood, are the "shades of a superculture idea."

From Time Magazine Archive

Feld's emphasis on the artlessness that conceals art was appropriate to someone trying for an artistic renaissance just a short subway ride away from mid-Manhattan's superculture.

From Time Magazine Archive

The diseases of superculture, impotent estheticism, the restless spirit of commercialism, and social conflicts are of the same kind in Berlin and Vienna as in Paris, London, and New York.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various