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“The strong counterattack against the values of the European Enlightenment has come just at the time when, for the reasons already given, the confidence of Europe in its own culture is collapsing. The result of the conjunction of these two forces is the phenomenon of multiculturalism, an ideology that celebrates cultural diversity as an unqualified good in its own right. When this ideology takes over, value judgments claiming to discriminate between different cultural traditions in terms of their intrinsic worth are ruled out of order. Cultural diversity is an unqualified good; judgments of good or bad with respect to different cultures are condemned as cultural imperialism.”

Values Diversity Judgment Multiculturalism Cultural Imperialism The Enlightenment

Book:Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship

Source: Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship

“The path to the ethnic democratization of American society is through its culture, that is to say through its cultural apparatus, which comprises the eyes, the ears, and the "mind" of capitalism and is twentieth-century voice to the world. Thus to democratize the cultural apparatus is tantamount to revolutionizing American society itself into the living realization of its professed ideas. Seeing the problem in another way, to revolutionize the cultural apparatus is to deal fundamentally with the unsolved American question of nationality--Which group speaks for America and for the glorification of which ethnic image? Either all group images speak for themselves and for the nation, or American nationality will never be determined.”

Culture Democracy Independence Nationalism Nationality American Democracy Cultural Imperialism Cultural Democracy

Book:The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership

Source: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership

“This is clearly cultural imperialism, which explains why Western culture is, in fact, the sole (main) global culture. Yet, this is consistently disguised and presented as "globalism, the sole ideology of the 21st century and the future.”

Culture 21st Century Imperialism Global Globalism Cultural American Imperialism Western Imperialism Cultural Imperialism

Author:Sov8840

“The war on Christianity was also made manifest in the efforts to introduce neopaganism into the lives of the people. Joseph Ratzinger recalled that a young teacher in the village erected a maypole as a symbol of the pagan concept of the “life force.” He organized festivals for the summer solstice in homage to the sacredness of nature and dismissed traditional notions of sin, virtue, and redemption as alien ideas imposed by the cultural imperialism of the Jewish and Roman religion of Christianity. The old religious ideas had to make way for the new order, and the new order demanded a new age. Sixty years later, in his memoirs, Cardinal Ratzinger compared the anti-Christian neopaganism of the Nazis with the anti-Christian neopaganism of our own day: “When nowadays I hear how in many parts of the world Christianity is criticized as a destruction of individual cultural identity and an imposition of European values, I am amazed at how similar the types of argumentation are and at how familiar many a turn of phrase sounds.”

Cultural Imperialism Ratzinger Neopaganism

Book:Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith

Source: Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith

“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of a future national culture. In the sphere of psycho-affective equilibrium it is responsible for an important change in the native. Perhaps we haven't sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today.”

History Cultural Imperialism Négritude Neo Colonization Afrocentricism

Book:The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth