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[..] Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.
Cultural Imperialism, Cultural Identity and the Eurocentric ideology of Ecological Destruction and Compulsive Development: [90]
In Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Identity103, Sandbacka writes Cultural imperialism is the economic, technological and cultural hegemony of the industrialized nations, which determines the direction of both economic and social progress, defines cultural values, and standardizes the civilization and cultural environment throughout the world. The whole world is becoming the same kind of technical knowledge, fashion, music metropolitan mass culture is
a cultural common market area in which product development, the same kind of and literature, the same kind of manufactured, bought and sold.
Western ideologies, political beliefs, western science, western laws and social institutions, western moral concepts, sexual symbols and ideals of beauty, western working methods and leisure activities, western foods, western pop idols and the western concept of human existence have become objectives, examples and norms everywhere in the world. But there are too many dispossessed people who have amassed a few western material possessions but no longer have any birthplace, home or final resting-place.
[91] In What is Cultural Imperialism?104, Matti Sarmela, Former Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki from 1973 to 2000, and a founder and the first president of the Finnish Anthropological Society, describes the inner psychological and corporate workings of cultural imperialism. He draws an ideological profile of the cognitive and ideological factors that ―go some way towards explaining the hegemony of western culture and the process that is leading to the establishment of a common world culture‖ of compulsive development, which has destroyed the ecological equilibrium of ethnic communities; as all cultures are blindly encouraged to blindly adopt their the dogma of compulsive development, as an alleged ‗superior cultural system‘. He concludes that it is time for sociologists and cultural anthropologists to examine their roles in this dogma of ‗compulsive development‘: ―Should they merely record the changes that take place, perhaps even Carola Sandbacka (ed.) 13-36. Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Identity. Transactions of the Finnish Anthropolological Society 2. Helsinki 1977 (in Finnish 1975) 104 www.kotikone.fi/matti.sarmela/culturimperialism.pdf 103