Answer to Question #318151 in Psychology for Jacob

Question

Briefly discuss what is meant by reversed cultural imperialism.

Answer 1

cultural imperialism, in anthropology, sociology, and ethics, the imposition by one usually politically or economically dominant community of various aspects of its own culture onto another nondominant community. The reverse or counter-cultural imperialism, which emphasized the arrival of cultural pluralism, seems to apply in the case of Korea, with the rapid growth of domestic cultural industries and their exports to the East and Southeast Asian regions. The process remains complex, however, because the US still dominates the Korean cultural market through both cultural products and capital.

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.