Cultural Imperialism

Cultural imperialism refers to how an ideology, a politics, or a way of life is exported into other territories through the export of cultural products (POL 397). Since the start of the television era, t.v. images and messages were a great source of communication because they can reach out in ways the human body cannot as the book describes. Although not all the messages being sent were received as positive from the people, many viewed this form of media intervention as an act of cultural imperialism, rather than making democratic choices available to the people. And we see that still go on today. For example, I work at a bank, and we recently this year had a whole reissue of new credit cards sent out to all members with this new chip technology inside them being able to make it more difficult for cards being able to get compromised. But a lot of people didn't take it as that, they questioned whether its a way the government can now keep track of everyone's spending and what not. So there is always going to be two sides to a story, and it's just how that person perceives what is being said.

I found this image on the internet and thought it was a great example of U.S. imperialism because it represents cultural hegemony and showing that the U.S. is sort of wrapping around the world as if it is showing the perception of global domination.