United States cultural imperialism
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- CIA and the New World Order
- By Ralph McGehee, CIABASE, 9 December 1996. Reflection on
review of Samual Huntington, The Clash of
Civilizations. According to Huntington, the war of
ideologies and interests was over, and now the war of
cultures—Western, Eastern Orthodox, Latin America,
Islamic, etc. has begun. The CIA has declared a new holy
crusade on Islamic Fundamentalism, calling it the more
explosive and evocative
International Terrorism.
- Methodists to open mission center in
Cambodia
- The United Methodist Church press release, 4 May
1998. Planned $350,000 mission center in Phnom Penh reflects
the cooperative relationship among United Methodists from
the U.S., France and Switzerland, and Methodists from Korea
and Singapore.
The establishment of that kind of a
community, in a country that is 98 percent Buddhist, is very
important.
- Compromise act still has U.S. gov't
favoring religion in foreign policy strategy
- American Atheists, AANews, 6 October
1998. Legislation which puts the U.S. Government in the
business of monitoring cases of religious persecution in
foreign nations, and enacting a range of penalties in event
of any violations.
- U.S. Cable TV Invading Brazil
- By Adalid Cabrera LeMuz, Associated Press, Wednesday 29
August 2001. A foreign invasion by U.S. cable television is
luring viewers away from traditional Brazilian
programing. The average cable client is upper
middle-class. The violence and consumerism often depicted in
American shows could have a negative influence on young
Brazilians.
- Prevention of capitalist ideological
poisoning called for
- Korean News, 26 September
2001. Imperialists' ideological and cultural poisoning
is a form of aggression and interference perpetrated by them
under the signboard of
cooperation
and
exchange.
It is one of their strategies to dominate
the world through reactionary ideological and cultural
poisoning.