Norman Spinrad Quotes

The issue of American world cultural dominance is moot. All the international debates on the issue seem to be held in English.

It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

The French view globalization as synonymous with Americanization, the cultural imperialism that has filled France with bad food, bad films, and English words.

It doesn’t matter if we don’t consider ourselves an empire. Others see us as impinging on their lives, their way of life.

Requiring this kneeling down of all languages before French is sheer linguistic imperialism.

The main reason western culture has been dominant is because Europeans have controlled political, economic and social power including educational policy for the last several centuries.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority—whether religious, racial, genetic, ethnic, cultural, or institutional—rather than an accident of timing or geography.

Hollywood ... proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic d’marche.

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down.

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization.

We don’t like to call ourselves an empire but in the process of becoming the richest country the world has ever known we have dominated many other people.

Unlike more traditional conquerors, we are not content merely to subdue others: We insist that they be like us.

We are the Romans of the modern world—the great assimilating people.