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Comment: Cultural Imperialism.

  • UPSC 1997, 1993
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Cultural imperialism is domination exercised through ideas, values, language and media rather than through territory or force. Herbert I. Schiller gave the thesis its classic form in Communication and Cultural Domination (1976): the dominating stratum of a weaker society is attracted, pressured, forced and sometimes bribed into shaping its institutions to match "the values and…

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