Professor Douglas Kellner in his book Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern commented that the video depicted motifs and strategies which helped Madonna in her journey to become a star.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

For instance, although an individualist according to Cultural Theory is aversive towards both principles and groups, individualism is not fulfilling if individual brilliance cannot be recognised by groups, or if individual brilliance cannot be made permanent in the form of principles.

In January 2012, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, with the Association for Cultural Equity, announced that they would release Lomax's vast archive of 1946 and later recording in digital form.

The UCC was developed by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as an alternative to the Berne Convention for those states which disagreed with aspects of the Berne Convention, but still wished to participate in some form of multilateral copyright protection.

According to Shen, the trigger for the famous Tiananmen hunger-strikes of 1989 was a big-character poster ( dazibao ), a form of public political discussion that gained prominence during the Cultural Revolution.

With the Cultural Revolution Mao was simply " returning to form ," once again taking on the role of a guerrilla leader fighting against an institutionalized Party bureaucracy.

Historian Phillip Short contends that the Cultural Revolution contained elements that was akin to a form of religious worship.

* In the 1985 Contact ( novel ) ( by Carl Sagan ), the character Xi Qiaomu — who had been involved in excavations of the tomb of Emperor Qin during the Cultural Revolution — is visited by a personified alien in the form of the Emperor Qin.

Finally the accomplishments of the Sayyid ' Ajall will be related in story form, concluded by a special prayer service to honor the hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed during the Qing Dynasty, and the hundreds killed during the Cultural Revolution.

Cultural imperialism can take the form of an active, formal policy or a general attitude regarding cultural superiority.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, and especially during the long initial period marked by intensive Maoist indoctrination and mass oppression through waves of purges and campaigns and " criticism / struggle " culminating with the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from 1965-76 when Mao himself died, the suit became widely worn by the entire male population, formally as a symbol of proletarian unity, but in fact as a form of personal — and virtually camouflage — coloration ; it was, of course, regularly worn by Communist Party cadres until the 1990s when it was largely replaced by the Western business suit.

: Cultural constructivism asserts that knowledge and reality are a product of their cultural context, meaning that two independent cultures will likely form different observational methodologies.

Ceauşescu adapted the part of Titoism that made reference to the " conditions of a particular country ", but merged them with Romanian nationalism and contrasting North Korean Juche beliefs, while embarking on a particular form of Cultural Revolution.

Naranjo is an ancient city of the Maya civilization in the Petén Basin region of the central Maya lowlands, in the present-day department of Petén, Guatemala west of the border with Belize and it is the northern most of the three sites that form the Cultural Triangle with Yaxha and Nakum.

Cultural capital is any advantage a person has that gives them a higher status in society, such as education, skills, and any other form of knowledge.

After the foundations of a 13th century church were found by a government funded excavation within the Skopje Fortress complex, the Cultural Heritage Protection Office actioned a project to restore it in the form of a church museum.

The Transvaal Museum was amalgamated with the Pretoria-based National Cultural History Museum ( also called the African Window ) and the South African National Museum of Military History ( situated in Johannesburg ) on 1 April 1999 to form the Northern Flagship Institution.

In 2012, the company signed a 10-year joint-venture agreement to form Sotheby ’ s ( Beijing ) Auction Co. Ltd., the first international auction house in China ; under the agreement, it invested $ 1. 2 million to take an 80 percent stake in the venture with state-owned Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group.

According to the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre, only some 10 % of the roughly 4, 000 Inuvialuit speak any form of Inuktitut, and only some 4 % use it at home.

It is almost considered a dying art form, but is currently being revived by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and National Commission of the Arts.

historical re-enactment | Re-enactments of English medieval events, such as the battle of Tewkesbury shown here, form part of the modern Cultural heritage | heritage industry

Jelon Vieira is a Brazilian choreographer and teacher who, in 2000, achieved recognition by New York City's Brazilian Cultural Center as a pioneer in presenting to American audiences the Afro-Brazilian art and dance form, Capoeira.

The Principal, a staff advisor, Dean of students, Dean of Women students, NSS Program officer, Toppers, Cultural Centre student representative, Gymkhana student representative, NSS student representative, 2 women student representatives form an integral part of the Council.

This is because " the relationship between actual culture ... on the one hand, and economically determined factors such as class position, on the other, is always problematical, incomplete, and the object of ideological work and struggle .... Cultural relationships and cultural change are thus not predetermined ; rather they are the product of negotiation, imposition, resistance, transformation, and so on .... Thus particular cultural forms and practices cannot be attached mechanically or even paradigmatically to particular classes ; nor, even, can particular interpretations, valuations, and uses of a single form or practice.

Cultural layers form a total of four periods of different settlement.

So called Cultural capital is a major factor in social mobility ( for example, getting a higher-paid, higher-status job ).

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November 1, 2011 marked a joint announcement by the U. S. Department of State ’ s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo, and Ripken Baseball, Inc. that Cal Ripken, Jr. would be traveling to Japan later in November 2011 to conduct baseball clinics, various events, and motivational activities for the youth of Japan in Tokyo, Ofunato, Nishinomiya, and Kyoto.

Garden Stage: José James ; Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir ; Cal State Northridge Jazz Band ; Kyle Eastwood Band, Meklit Hadaro.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

* Cultural capital, the advantage individuals can gain from mastering the cultural tastes of a privileged group

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities.

In late 2006, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan blended vulgar humour with cultural satire.

Cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia, carried by successive waves of immigration, expansion, and cultural assimilation, are part of the modern culture of China.

Cultural imperialism is defined as the cultural aspects of imperialism.

Cultural imperialism can take various forms, such as an attitude, a formal policy, military action, so long as it reinforces cultural hegemony.

Cultural influence can be seen by the " receiving " culture as either a threat to or an enrichment of its cultural identity.

Cultural imperialism is a term that is only used in discussions where cultural relativism and constructivism are generally taken as true.

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

* Cultural resources management, the practice of managing cultural resources

Cultural activities are fairly diverse throughout the region, with the music, dance, theatre, and literary art forms tending to follow the particular cultural heritage of specific locales.

Cultural geography is the study of cultural products and norms and their variation across and relations to spaces and places.

Economic, social and cultural rights are enshrined in articles 22 to 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) and in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( ICESCR ).

* Lewis, Richard D. Finland: Cultural Lone Wolf ( 2004 ) cultural interpretation of recent history excerpt and text search

* Cultural, linguistic, ethnic, religious, or historical organizations-open to members based on some cultural, linguistic, ethnic, religious, or historical link.

The secretariat of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage are currently working with the Government of Egypt on an initiative to add the bay of Alexandria ( to include remains of the lighthouse ) on a World Heritage List of submerged cultural sites.

* Cultural materialism ( cultural studies )

Cultural Mormonism includes a lifestyle promoted by the Mormon institutions, and includes cultural Mormons who identify with the culture, but not necessarily the theology.

Cultural pessimists feel the Golden Age is in the past, and the current generation is fit only for dumbing down and cultural careerism.

# Cultural posthumanism: a cultural direction which strives to move beyond archaic concepts of " human nature " to develop ones which constantly adapt to contemporary technoscientific knowledge.

It may also be described as relativist, basically a kind of Cultural relativism, which sees different cultural groups as having different conceptual schemes that are not necessarily compatible or commensurable, nor more or less in accord with the external reality.

Industrial reconstruction of the big conglomerate chaebols were pursued, a national pension system was established in 1998, educational reforms were carried out, government support for the IT field was increased, and notable cultural properties were registered as UNESCO Cultural Heritage sites.