Northrop Frye Quotes

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

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

In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

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

If there is cultural imperialism, it is definitely American.

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.

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

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.

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

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

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.

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

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

We should be obliged to admit that Europe is Americanizing herself with disconcerting rapidity.

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

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

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

The mainstream consumed our culture.

Modernization means Westernization.

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.

American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six months later, maybe a year.

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

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