Answer to Question #295163 in Psychology for TL1

Question

Briefly discuss what is meant by the belief that cultural imperialism is now being reversed, provide relevant examples to your discussion. (10

Answer 1

Cultural imperialism is the process and practice of promoting one culture over another. For example, stories can be hidden within song lyrics and rhythms from their traditional music are merged with the new dominant forms as a means of maintaining parts of their culture. There is also a form of reverse cultural imperialism, where the United States will take a popular show or film from another country and re-brand it with an American style that makes it appear as if it had been the United States original product from the start.

Cultural imperialism, in psychology, sociology, and ethics, is the imposition by one usually politically or economically dominant community of various aspects of its own culture onto another nondominant community. It is cultural in that the customs, traditions, religion, language, social and moral norms, and other aspects of the imposing community are distinct from, though often closely related to, the economic and political systems that shape the other community. It is a form of imperialism in that the imposing community forcefully extends the authority of its way of life over the other population by either transforming or replacing aspects of the nondominant community’s culture.