Cultural Hegemony

As I was presearching on Cultural Hegemony I came across this article that explains the ideology in a more practical manner.

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The author of this blog has focused more on Cultural Hegemony related to the American Culture. She has described how it has effected other cultures and how it has not. She also explains the two divides of this theory by Americans. One defined as the liberal viewpoint and the other defined as the conservative viewpoint. Both the viewpoints are interestingly engaging to me because of my perspective on this ideology.

For a person who has lived almost 19 years in a conservative country and moved to USA, I find both the viewpoints explained above to be true. The article in the end summarizes that the ideology itself is a mere theory and is not practically happening but I disagree. I remember how my community adapted to the western culture and how the youth embraced it. It happened gradually and it was hardly noticeable to some who did not know the native practices and cultures.

I have learned that Cultural Hegemony is a widely problematic case for some and it is the human nature that develops it to its next stage. I didn't realize the value of my own culture until I came to USA, which is also the nature of humans. The world is becoming smaller and I believe Cultural Hegemony is not a crisis but a mere outcome of globalization.

I came across this article after going through a lot of scholarly articles and Wikipedia links. This article was the only article that illustrated the ideology in a more practical manner.