#imperial

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#bad #cultural #culture #downplay #game

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#agreements #american #binding #countries #cultural

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#always #america #american #american government #chavez

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#belonged #considered #countries #drove #effect

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#american #belong #clearly #fights #fought

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken. ↗

— Bobby Sands

#break #broken #imperial #irishman #nothing

Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#imagination

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#culture #culture-and-imperialism #modernity #progress #sherpas

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #tfios #ignorance

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#edward-said #strategy