What do we as a global society really know about cultural imperialism?Does it exist in the 21st century?

Question

Please explain in detail.

Answer 1

Cultural imperialism is one of those things that I am not quite sure how I feel about it. First of all I think that most of society is not privy to cultural imperialism. The way that I see it, is that culture is forced on people without them having much choice. There is examples of this everyday and everywhere. When I think of the one group that has been effected by this the most, I think the Native American Indians have been. Over the years since the first colonies were established in the New World, culture was forced down their throat. Over the years, Native Americans have maintained their individuality and culture, so of course this makes them a target. Even now, people want to force their ideals and culture on them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_imperialism
http://www.hanksville.org/sand/intellect/NAbibBell.html
http://puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/teaching.html
https://www.pcusa.org/acswp/pdf/rv-imperialism-garcia.pdf

Answer 2

of course it does; aboriginal cultures still face pressures and manipulation from more powerful cultures (google "fourth world," and ignore any comic book references).
Radical Islam sees itself as fighting western cultural imperialism (they may have a point - to an extent, but they also ignore the growing counter-influence their cultures are bringing to the West).
So while we are forming a global society, any dominant forces in that society can be perceived (rightly or not) to be imperialist to some degree, especially when one considers the impacts of the large corporations (Wal-Mart itself creates more cultural impacts than most nation-states do).