Fredric Jameson Quotes

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

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

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

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.

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

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

The things and ways the West took to the rest have become the ways of the world.

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

If there is cultural imperialism, it is definitely American.

Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'

The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, American movies, American music, and dislike the policies of the government of America.

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

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

The industrialized world was dominating the processes of change in the Third World, in particular in the Islamic world. And, that domination resulted in educational processes that were shaped by the First World.

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

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

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization.

The World Doesn’t Want to Be American