Critics of scholars who discuss cultural imperialism have a number of critiques.

Critics of the books have criticised Koolhaas for being cynical-as if Western capitalism and globalization demolish all cultural identity-highlighted in the notion expounded in the books that " In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop ".

Critics of Echols and Willis hold that they conflate several tendencies within radical feminism, not all of which are properly called " cultural feminism ", and emphasize a greater continuity between early and contemporary radical feminism.

Critics such as Bloom see cultural studies as it applies to literary scholarship as a vehicle of careerism by academics, instead of promoting essentialist theories of culture, mobilising arguments that scholars should promote the public interest by studying what makes beautiful literary works beautiful.

Critics of the bombing argue that Dresden — sometimes referred to as " Florence on the Elbe " ( Elbflorenz )— was a cultural landmark of little or no military significance, and that the attacks were indiscriminate area bombing and not proportionate to the commensurate military gains.

Critics argue that integration destroys ethnic diversity, language diversity, and cultural diversity.

Critics respond, however, that a cultural change effected by a struggle within the Ashkenazi-East European community, with younger people voluntarily discarding their ancestral culture and formulating a new one, is not parallel to the subsequent exporting and imposing of this new culture on others, who had no part in formulating it.

New Critics focused on the text of a work of literature and tried to exclude the reader's response, the author's intention, historical and cultural contexts, and moralistic bias from their analysis.

Critics debated whether it could be considered an Australian film, and whether it was an embrace of or a reaction to the country's cultural and natural context.

Critics Daniel C. Noel and Robert J. Wallis see Harner's teachings as based on cultural appropriation and a misrepresentation of the various cultures he claims to have been inspired by ( reference: " The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities ").

Critics believe Harner's work laid the foundations for massive exploitation of Indigenous cultures by " plastic shamans " and other cultural appropriators ( reference: " The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities ", " Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking ").

Critics argued that the very works of art whose purpose was to provoke political, social and cultural conversation were confined within the exclusive and privileged space of galleries museums, and private collections.

( Critics of the Ontario Confederation of Regions party have argued that references to " English heritage " are code phrases for cultural intolerance, although the CoR has denied this.

Critics believe that Phoenicianism is an origin myth that disregards the Arab cultural and linguistic influence on the Lebanese.

Critics, including Elisabeth Frost and Juliana Spahr, have suggested that Mullen ’ s poetry audience is an eclectic community of collaborative readers who share individual and collective interpretations of poems that may provoke multiple, divergent, or contradictory meanings, according to each reader ’ s cultural background.

Critics have stated that shred guitar is associated with " sweep-picked arpeggios, diminished and harmonic minor scales, finger-tapping and whammy-bar abuse ", while other guitar writers say that rather than being a musical definition, it is a fairly subjective cultural term used by guitarists and enthusiasts of guitar music.

Critics of " fun feminism " such as Maureen Dowd wrote of ' bimbo feminism, giving intellectual pretensions to a world where the highest ideal is to acknowledge your inner slut '.

Critics such as Benjamin Buchloh, Hal Foster, Craig Owens, and Mira Schor were highly critical of its relation to the marketability of painting on the rapidly expanding art market, celebrity, the backlash against feminism, anti-intellectualism, and a return to mythic subjects and individualist methods they deemed outmoded.

Critics like Meaghan Morris have argued that postmodern feminism runs the risk of undercutting the basis of a politics of action based upon gender difference, through its very anti-essentialism.

Critics of Searle argue that he is holding the Chinese room to a higher standard than we would hold an ordinary person.

Critics of experimental parapsychology hold that there are no consistent and agreed-upon standards by which " ESP powers " may be tested.

Critics have charged Bopp with neglecting the study of the native Sanskrit grammars, but in those early days of Sanskrit studies the great libraries of Europe did not hold the requisite materials ; if they had, those materials would have demanded his full attention for years, while such grammars as those of Charles Wilkins and Henry Thomas Colebrooke, from which Bopp derived his grammatical knowledge, had all used native grammars as a basis.

The core elements of the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence are control of one's bodily motions and the capacity to handle objects skillfully ( 206 ) Critics hold that given this statement, any interest or ability is now redefined as " intelligence ".

Critics of Dabru Emet hold that it is false to claim that the Nazis would move on to exterminate Christians after they finished with the Jews.

Critics, surprisingly, predicted that Bono would be the big winner with a solo comedy vehicle, and didn't hold much hope for Cher's more musical showcase.

Critics of initial efforts by Celera Genomics to hold back data from sections of genome they sequenced for commercial exploitation felt that it would retard progress in science as a whole.

Critics hold varying opinions about the true nature of the First Vision, believing it to be a dream, a hallucination, a self-deception, an intentional fabrication, or some combination of these.

Critics of anonymous P2P systems hold that these disadvantages outweigh the advantages offered by such systems, and that other communication channels are already sufficient for unpopular speech.

Critics hold that love bombing is insincere or with an ulterior motive and that it is used to reduce the subject's resistance to recruitment.

Critics of the theory argue that money velocity is not stable and, in the short-run, prices are sticky, so the direct relationship between money supply and price level does not hold.

Critics of Lenin's theory ( including many Marxists ) hold a different view.

Critics hold SAPs responsible for much of the economic stagnation that has occurred in borrowing countries.

Critics within the World Social Forum process had previously thought that it would not be possible to hold a significant social forum in the United States given its history of American Exceptionalism and because they thought that the United States, as the main imperialist power of its day, did not have large enough social movements to provide a grassroots base for a major social forum.

Critics noted that it would hold over gamers until the release of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — provided they played it with an open mind to avoid culture shock.

Critics such as Cheri Larsen Hoeckley, Kathleen Hickok, and Natalie Joy Woodall argue that the demise of Procter's reputation is due at least in part to the way Charles Dickens characterized her as a " model middle-class domestic angel " and a " fragile and modest saint " rather than as an " active feminist and strong poet.

Critics, including feminist activist Andrea Dworkin, alleged that Wright manipulated the legal system to get Mack off and, subsequently, protected him from media scrutiny.

Critics argued that Whorf's ideas were untestable and poorly formulated and that they were based on badly analyzed or misunderstood data.

Critics believe that the elder Morse's Calvinist ideas are integral to Morse ’ s Judgment of Jupiter, another significant work completed in England.

Critics of the Situationists frequently assert that their ideas are not in fact complex and difficult to understand, but are at best simple ideas expressed in deliberately difficult language, and at worst actually nonsensical.

Critics then determined that the ideas mainly stemmed from Watson ’ s beliefs because Rosalie later entitled a self-penned article I am a Mother of Behaviorist Sons.

Critics and opponents of integralism argue that the movement can be associated with fascism ( especially in Latin America ), although there exist deep points of disagreement: integralism stresses trade unionism and localism while fascism defends a centralist state ; the traditionalist and Catholic foundation of integralist ideas against the often secular and anti-clerical, and modernist philosophical basis of fascism.

Critics of the term have alleged that it aims to reject people or ideas on the grounds of race or sex, and that the term may encourage academics to exclude the valuable ideas of those who are white, male, and dead from college curricula.

Today, the term radical center is most commonly associated with a movement that does not explicitly claim descent from the Reform Party or its ideas, but rather draws its inspiration from the book The Third Way by Anthony Giddens ( 1998 ) and Giddens ' highly-regarded follow-up book The Third Way and Its Critics ( 2000 ).

Critics of the novel tend to see it as full of interesting ideas but its writing as dry, characterless, difficult, as well as scientifically implausible at points.

Critics have accused Fomenko of altering the data to improve the fit with his ideas and have noted that he violates a key rule of statistics by selecting matches from the historical record which support his chronology, while ignoring those which do not, creating artificial, better-than-chance correlations, and that these practices undermine Fomenko's statistical arguments.

He has been frequently ( but often erroneously ) associated with the American school of New Critics, a group which advocated close reading and detailed textual analysis of poetry over, or even instead of, an interest in the mind and personality of the poet, sources, the history of ideas and political and social implications.

Critics cite as fundamentalist the unshakable belief, despite contrary evidence, that unfettered markets maximize individual freedom, that they are the best means to economic growth and that society should adhere to their ideas of progress.

Critics have argued that ideas such as white pride exist merely to provide a clean public face for white supremacy.

" If I don't turn ideas into songs, they can get stuck in me and make me sick ," she said in a 1995 interview with AOL's Critics ' Choice electronic music magazine.

Critics argue further that the problem with both ethnophilosophy and philosophical sagacity is that there is surely an important distinction between philosophy and the history of ideas, although other philosophers consider the two topics to be remarkably similar.