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Cultural imperialism

Cultural imperialism (also cultural colonialism) comprises the cultural dimensions of imperialism. The word "imperialism" describes practices in which a country engages culture (language, tradition, and ritual, politics, economics) to create and maintain unequal social and economic relationships among social groups. Cultural imperialism often uses wealth, media power and violence to implement the system of cultural hegemony that legitimizes imperialism.

Cultural imperialism may take various forms, such as an attitude, a formal policy, or military action—insofar as each of these reinforces the empire's cultural hegemony. Research on the topic occurs in scholarly disciplines, and is especially prevalent in communication and media studies,[1][2][3] education,[4] foreign policy,[5] history,[6] international relations,[7] linguistics,[8] literature,[9] post-colonialism,[10][11] science,[12] sociology,[13] social theory,[14] environmentalism,[15] and sports.[16]


Cultural imperialism may be distinguished from the natural process of cultural diffusion. The spread of culture around the world is referred to as cultural globalization.

Dunch, Ryan (2002). "Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions, and Global Modernity". History and Theory. 41 (3): 301–325. :10.1111/1468-2303.00208. JSTOR 3590688. S2CID 143267711.

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Hamm, Bernd; Russell Charles Smandych (2005). . Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-55111-707-2.

Cultural imperialism: essays on the political economy of cultural domination

Lechner, Frank; John Boli (2009). The Globalization Reader. Wiley-Blackwell.

Lechner, Frank; John Boli (2012). The Globalization Reader. John Wiley & Sons.  978-0-470-65563-4.

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Tomlinson, John (1991). Cultural imperialism: a critical introduction (illustrated, reprint ed.). Continuum International Publishing Group.  978-0-8264-5013-5.

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White, Livingston A. (Spring–Summer 2001). "Reconsidering cultural imperialism theory". Transnational Broadcasting Studies (6). The Center for Electronic Journalism at the American University in Cairo and the Centre for Middle East Studies, St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

by David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy no. 107, Summer 1997, pp. 38–53, which argues that cultural imperialism is a positive thing.

"In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?"

"Reconsidering cultural imperialism theory" by Livingston A. White, Transnational Broadcasting Studies no. 6, Spring/Summer 2001, which argues that the idea of media imperialism is outdated.

from 24 February 2000, discussing the idea of cultural imperialism

Academic Web page

BBC Radio 4 discussion with Linda Colley, Phillip Dodd and Mary Beard (In Our Time, 27 June 2002)

"Cultural Imperialism"