Mark Twain Quotes

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

The mission of colonization cannot be other than a mission of high civilization.

When you start exporting ideas, philosophy, behavior, products, ways of living, it becomes an assault on the culture. Americans have to understand that.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization--one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

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

The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians.

Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

It is through the European that civilization arrives ... precisely because of their superiority, the civilized people our responsible for an evolving world.

Secularism is the experience of the Western culture and thought. Insisting on spreading it to places where the underlying intellectual background, and the political and social reasons for its appearance are lacking, is clearly a mistake, regardless of being desirable or not.

Having uncritically accepted [Western] culture in everything, we now find we have lost our hold on the autonomous ideals of the Japanese race.

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization.

A real danger threatens the unity of the Canadian people and the preservation of its political existence. This danger is the slow but sure penetration of Americanism into all phases of our national, political, and social life.

Destiny beckons us to hold and civilize Mexico.

What will remain of our cultural identity if audiovisual Europe consists of ... sitting in front of Japanese TV sets showing American programs.

There must be in their [the Indian's] social bond, something singularly captivating, and far superior to anything to be boasted among us; for thousands of Europeans are Indians, and we have no examples of even one of those Aborigines having from choice become Europeans.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

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.