Definitions for "Cultural imperialism"
The extensive infusion of one nation's culture into another nation's.
A critical term for U.S. dominance of the emerging global culture.
A term describing the ideological infiltration of the cultural products of dominant nations (typically, the United States) into less globally powerful ones, at the expense of some aspects of indigenous culture. Globalization theorists have cast some doubt on the concept of cultural imperialism, pointing to its problematic assumption of a passive, colonized global audience, as well as its simplistic reading of actual processes of global production and consumption.
A process of imposing systems of government, law, customs and culture that originated in another society.