Type of Hegemony 300906632 YUNGU CHUNG 'Hegemony' meaning is like leadership, and social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group. Media is one of the key institutions that perpetuates hegemony, influencing mass consumers to unconsciously accept notions of inequality. There must be thousands of commercials that illustrate patterns of hegemonic culture. Cultural hegemony gives good things or bad things to other countries because cultural hegemony destroys the other country culture. Accept good thing adds traditional culture of the own country. It means that if accept cultural hegemony, accept country losing their own culture. For example, …show more content…
Using the media spread cultural hegemony. Some young people of the Korean do not like traditional food that is like Japanese food. Many Japanese restaurants are going to make Korean style. For example, Japan has good food cultures that Japan dominate food cultures to Korea. Representatively, Ramen is Japanese food, but Korea people really like it. Korean it called that national food. Hegemony has an effect on the area. For example, between Canada and USA are really close area that they easy about share of culture. It seems like good, but Canada people are going to similar USA people style. USA has much culture and they spread near country. Some of part of hegemony dominate culture and change the culture style. If effect of hegemony to other country, many things will be change of culture because hegemony has mean of dominate. Culture is going to mean what country has personality and people tendency. When dominate of culture, country has many disadvantage that people are interested by other country. People don’t know what is the dominate of culture. Before, people accept culture, people think that traditional culture is important for other country. Sometimes, culture of hegemony is give to good thing but before accept the culture, preserve traditional culture and mix to advantage of each …show more content…
Historically, Hegemony appear that after world war 2, the world is very many change that each country decided politic type and difference people life type. Sometimes, domination gives that good thing and bad thing. If born of new culture, people enjoy that is new thing so people follow the it. It is resonable, because people are interest of new thing. Hegemony is some of dangerous that people don’t know what is destroy the culture and there are no interest. If new thing is coming to people, old thing is gone to slowly. It means that If new culture is born, traditional culture will be gone, but always new thing is not good. Also, one of the country dominate after all of the world will be little dangerous. For example, few years ago, USA had experience that economy problem so many country had take a hit, because, USA has 20 percent of finance. It means that each country should share of culture. If not this, other culture is going to history. Always one thing have 2 different type. Advantage or
Imperialism is the practice by which powerful nations or peoples seek to extend and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or peoples. By the 1800’s, the Western powers had advantages in this process. They led the world in technological advances, giving them a dominance when conquering other countries. The European Imperialists made attempts to conquer China and Japan. In this process, they succeeded by influencing Japan greatly. However, they were not as successful with China.
Hegemony was a prominent theme within the conquest of Latin America, which then led to the independence of the oppressed citizens. Thought the conquest was a fairly quick process, independence was not. It took a lot of revolts and acts of rebellion to get their points across. Hegemony will always be around wherever there are two groups or more with a large class difference. In the case of Latin America, the whole hegemonic process consisted of different classes and races which ultimately led to racial tension and conflicts among social groups.
The terms in question are often used interchangeably, but are at the same time drastically different from one another; each carrying its own implications and complexities.”Empire has a territorial dimension and implies control over subjects” whereas the term hegemony “refers to more informal means of persuasion and subjugation of other players in the international arena. Empire is a more realist and military system, while hegemony is more liberal and institutional” (Grondin et al., 2006: p. 217). Oftentimes, “When the term "empire" is used about the American role it refers to an informal hierarchical structure”. This is to say that, “empire simply means a hierarchical system of political relationships with one power clearly being much stronger than any other” (Keohane, 1991: p.437) The greatest problem that results from defining empire in this way i...
Today, Japanese and Korean civilizations are advanced, wealthy, and independent with their own system of government and religious beliefs due to the influences from China. The majority of Asia experienced changes in government and dealt with inter and intra state conflicts when the countries were most susceptible to influences from alliances made with other countries. The Tang Dynasty/ Silla alliance shaped the future of Korea’s religious and government movements. Art and literature from China also greatly impacted Korea’s and Japan’s society and provided new insight into literary expression through new forms of poetry and a new system of writing. Religion was also a major influence because of popularity and acceptance of new views and beliefs. Agriculture played an important role in the development of Korean and Japanese civilizations because new tools and forms of irrigation led to more efficient harvesting. The bulk of Chinese influence impacted Japanese society through the Heian period and Korea was heavily influenced by Chinese culture during the period when Silla unified Korea. Although there were many factors of Chinese culture that influenced Korean and Japanese civilizations, religion and government legislation had the most impact.
Starting with a historical background of the development of the Cultural imperialism expression Rauschenberger (2003) discusses some theories in order to define the Cultural imperialism. These theories saw the light in the 1960’s and counted as important theories in the 1970’s. After the Second World War Cultural imperialism definition gained several new terms such as; neo-colonialism, economic- imperialism and, soft-imperialism. Later on and over the times it has also gained more and more terms like Media Imperialism. John Tomlinson (1991), in his book, Cultural Imperialism: A critical introduction, defines the term as "the use of political and economic power to exalt and spread the
...en as a super-power it would appear they still do not match the USA in their cultural influence on the rest of the world.
The idea of experience regarding globalization is important, according to various scholars, as globalization only truly matters if people can feel that it has something to do with their lives. People have to sense that they are actually experiencing globalization in order to care about it and find it important enough – which is why I would like to argue that certain of the pieces in the "experiencing globalization" section of the course literature represent the most fundamental and significant ideas in terms of understanding globalization processes. I will first address Lechner’s ‘waves of globalization’ and Levitt’s idea of ‘transnational villagers,’ and afterwards I shall discuss Appadurai’s ‘experience
Abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been the world’s only unquestioned superpower. How the United States evaluates its position as global hegemon has important consequences for American foreign policy, particularly with regards to the potential for future policy constraints. Thus, this paper seeks to consider the question: How durable is American hegemony? The paper first defines the state of American hegemony and then considers the primary challengers: Europe, Russia, China, Japan and imperial overstretch. It will conclude that in the long-term, East Asian geopolitical instability poses the greatest threat to American hegemony, but that in the short-term, the hegemony will prove to be quite durable as long as the United States can counteract the phenomenon of imperial overstretch. In order to diffuse both internal and international threats to hegemony, American leaders should work to pursue national interests within a framework of consensus and legitimacy as much as possible.
In conclusion, we can see that there are different feature between the imperialism and the hegemon stability theories. The hegemon stability theories happened when the leading strong countries have the advance of the political, military force and economic aspect in order to rules geopolitically subordinate states. On the other side, the imperialism means the unequal human and territorial relationship. It is an extension of its own countries by control another states or people over another to maximize their profit. However, this will lead to wars between the empires such as World War I.
According to the Cambridge dictionary, the fact of the culture of a large and powerful country, organization, etc. having a great influence on another less powerful country, etc is known as cultural imperialism. There are many ways in which a stronger country can have power over a weaker one like through military force. However, in the 21st century, the expansion of one’s culture, beliefs and ideologies is the most effective and easily applicable one which the U.S has been following. Spreading one’s own influence over others surely does take time. The U.S. has had a very powerful influence on many countries of North America, Europe and Asia, including Nepal since
For example, McCormick states that “ North America, Japan, and Europe constitute the core and specialize in electronics, capital goods, and finance; the LDCs of Africa, Southeast Asia, and Caribbean specialize in raw materials and single crop agriculture” ( Merrill and Paterson 4). This shows how different countries, with the resources that are available to them, actually control their standing and power in the free world. Another reason why I found the world systems approach to US foreign relations very enlightening is because of the concept of hegemony. McCormick says that hegemony “means that one nation possesses such supremacy, military might, and political leadership, that no other power can prevail against it” (Merrill and Paterson 5). With the capitalist free world, many countries have the ability to decide its own future. For example, two states that became hegemonic centers of the world were Great Britain and The United States. McCormick states that “in each instance, world war was crucial to the formation of hegemony” (Merrill and Paterson 6). War is the most powerful form of foreign relations which is why the world systems approach enlightened me because Great Britain and The United States transformed from a rentier nation to a warfare state. Gender, race, national security, and bureaucratic politics don’t spend as much time on the whole world and the vital roles each country plays in
Q1) The dominate culture determines the examples, how content is presented, the context, and the content of various curriculum based on the societal dominate culture. The overall societal dominant group are the WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) or at least WASPs based. Culture does eveloved as shown by the sexualy reveloution and the decline in religious affliation. Also with the evolution of culture we can see how subcultures(or at least parts of one) have become part of the dominant culture. Rap and Jazz have been taken from the Black subculture and mixed into the dominate culture.
The Hegemony can be explained through five assumption of the international system. Firstly, we noted that through our daily life that the international system is an anarchy because there is no central authority ,indeed the international system is not strongly control this cause some problems because this anarchy allow some illegal things like corruption , illegal proliferation of arms , terrorism etc. The second assumption is that great power have offensive military which give them the opportunities to destroy each others, indeed each great state have weapons in order to defend their territory but also to destroy the other this is why there is an armament race
Explain the concept of culture. Why is it important to avoid ethnocentricity and gain cultural literacy?
In US country has a power motivation in cultural imperialism (Galtung, 1971). For example, economic motive, human motive and political motive all these motivation to keep the western country save and share western culture around the world.