The hapless Mike finds himself forced to watch bad movies with robot companions Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot while interjecting humorous quips and cultural riffs based on the action and dialog of the films.

The " baggage " imagery implies that cultural baggage is something that one carries at all times and that it can be burdensome, hindering freedom of movement ( i. e. hinders intercultural dialog ).

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes ( contrary to Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat ) and are the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the " Aryan race ".

The Balkans ( turkish balkan = „ mountains or forrest mountains “), often referred to as the Balkan Peninsula, and recently also as " Southeast Europe ", although none of the three are coterminous, is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe.

" It is based on " similarities emanating from historical, social and cultural characteristics ", and it is identified as having been " one of the world's richest sources of creative talent " between the 17th and 20th centuries.

Some of those who advocated " independent invention ", like Lewis Henry Morgan, additionally supposed that similarities meant that different groups had passed through the same stages of cultural evolution ( See also classical social evolutionism ).

Such ethnographers and their students promoted the idea of " cultural relativism ", the view that one can only understand another person's beliefs and behaviors in the context of the culture in which he or she lived or lives.

Modern cultural anthropology has its origins in, and developed in reaction to, 19th century " ethnology ", which involves the organized comparison of human societies.

Collectivism is a basic cultural element that exists as the reverse of individualism in human nature ( in the same way high context culture exists as the reverse of low context culture ), and stresses the priority of group goals over individual goals and the importance of cohesion within social groups ( such as an " in-group ", in what specific context it is defined ).

The majority of traditional Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras, during a period known as the " Hundred Schools of Thought ", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.

Terms such as " media imperialism ", " structural imperialism ", " cultural dependency and domination ", " cultural synchronization ", " electronic colonialism ", " ideological imperialism ", and " economic imperialism " have all been used to describe the same basic notion of cultural imperialism.

Granted, the cosmological, philosophical, and cultural reverberations initiated by the De Revolutionibus were felt with increasing violence during the 300 years to follow.

In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.

In the mid-5th century BC, when the Athenian Acropolis became the seat of the Delian League and Athens was the greatest cultural centre of its time, Pericles initiated an ambitious building project that lasted the entire second half of the century.

The ninth Congress initiated a hard line in the cultural sphere, which contrasted with the policy of openness and tolerance enunciated at the previous congress.

While Cavalli-Sforza is best known for his work in genetics, he also, in collaboration with Marcus Feldman and others, initiated the sub-discipline of cultural anthropology known alternatively as coevolution, gene-culture coevolution, cultural transmission theory or dual inheritance theory.

This line of inquiry initiated research into the correlation of patterns of genetic and cultural dispersion.

Russian painter and philosopher Nicholas Roerich ( 1874 – 1947 ) initiated the modern movement for the defense of cultural objects, for the idea of “ Peace of Civilizations ”.

The High Contracting Parties, animated by the purpose of giving conventional form to the postulates of the Resolution approved on December 16, 1933, by all the States represented at the Seventh International Conference of American States, held at Montevideo, which recommended to " the Governments of America which have not yet done so that they sign the ' Roerich Pact ', initiated by the Roerich Museum in the United States, and which has as its object, the universal adoption of a flag, already designed and generally known, in order thereby to preserve in any time of danger all nationally and privately owned immovable monuments which form the cultural treasure of peoples ", have resolved to conclude a treaty with that end in view, and to the effect that the treasures of culture be respected and protected in time of war and in peace, have agreed upon the following articles:

The introduction of the stirrup not only made the mounted warrior supreme in medieval warfare, but may have initiated complex and far-reaching social and cultural changes in Europe.

It was promoted later, through the medium of the Cenaclul Flacăra, a cultural phenomena from 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, which was initiated by Adrian Păunescu, a Romanian poet.

The arrival of the Maritime Bell Beaker from the west a century or two later initiated a period of borrowing and experimentation in what has been called the Primary Bell Beaker / Corded Ware contact zone and cultural traits developed here, such as single burial and the shaft-hole axe, were transmitted westwards along the exchange networks from the Rhine to the Loire.

Khrushchev initiated " The Thaw " better known as Khrushchev's Thaw, a complex shift in political, cultural and economic life in the Soviet Union.

With Eissa Bougari, Hamza Yusuf initiated a media challenge to the Arab world that resulted in a highly successful cultural religious program that he hosted for three years and was one of the most watched programs in the Arab world during Ramadan.

In 1935 a pact initiated by Roerich was signed by the United States and Latin American nations, agreeing that " historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic, educational and cultural institutions " should be protected both in times of peace and war.

The Bahmani Sultanate initiated a process of cultural synthesis visible in Hyderabad where cultural flowering is still expressed in vigorous schools of deccani architecture and painting.

Yang Guang commanded the construction of the Grand Canal to enhance cultural exchanges and trade between the north and south, developed unified monetary and measurement standards, and initiated the national examination system to identify and promote talents based on merits.

A broad intellectual movement, calling itself the Celtic Revival grew up in the late 19th century largely initiated by artists and writers of Protestant or Anglo-Irish background who were concerned with furthering Ireland's individual native and cultural identity.

After 1945 new enterprises were created in the town ( e. g. a dairy, a cold storage plant, a slaughterhouse ) and new residential areas ( housing estates Północ-from 1961, Południe-from 1979, Trzebińska and so on ) and cultural centres ( e. g. County Cultural Centre, the construction of which was initiated in 1959, and Chrzanów Museum founded in 1960 ).

It initiated an artistic philosophy, Futurism, that was a rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry ; it was also an advocation of the modernisation and cultural rejuvenation of Italy.

The construction of multi-storey steam powered mills followed, which initiated a process of urbanisation and cultural transformation in the region ; the population increasingly moved away from farming and domestic weaving in favour of the mechanised production of cotton goods.

The Flavians initiated economic and cultural reforms.

It was initiated by the CNES ( Centre national d ' études spatiales — the French space agency ) in the 1970s and was developed in association with the SSTC ( Belgian scientific, technical and cultural services ) and the Swedish National Space Board ( SNSB ).

" This much-acclaimed effort was followed by the " Renaissance II " project, begun in 1977 and focusing more on cultural and neighborhood development than its predecessor.

In 1977, British cultural theorist Paul Willis published a study titled " Learning to Labor ", in which he investigated the connection between social class and education.

Viola was invited to show work at La Trobe University ( Melbourne, Australia ) in 1977, by cultural arts director Kira Perov.

Although in 1977 cultural anthropologist Jules de Leeuwe argued that some societies were " mainly gynecocratic " ( others being " mainly androcratic "), he did not identify any in his short response.

When the cultural exchange program Friendship Force International launched at the White House on March 1, 1977, she became honorary chairperson, a position she held until 2002.

This does not mean that the ' spiritual ' theory of race is acceptable, but it had at least the merit of not totally failing to see certain values, to refuse the German aberrations and the ones modeled after them and to try to keep racism on a plane of cultural problems worthy of the name " ( Storia degli Ebrei Italiani sotto il Fascismo, or The History of Italian Jews under Fascism 1977 ; 465 ).

* Spiking the cultural roots, Tim Radford, The Guardian, 1 April 1977

A significant international visit was made in 1977 when they were sent to mainland China as a cultural exchange between Canada and China.

1977 saw punk rock spreading around the world, and it became a major international cultural phenomenon.

There were “ foundational works underlying and facilitating the turn to cultural forms of analysis ;” they were: Hayden White ’ s Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe ( 1973 ), Clifford Geertz ’ s The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays ( 1973 ), Michel Foucault ’ s Discipline and Punish ( 1977 ), and Pierre Bourdieu ’ s Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977 ).

In 1977, the Seoul International Song Festival was launched, which encouraged cultural exchanges with other countries.

Walid's father, Kamal Jumblatt, a major political, cultural, and philosophical figure in the Arab World, and a prominent Arab nationalist, was assassinated in 1977 in the Lebanese mountains.

On May 3, 1977, he was awarded the title of Merited Artist, and in the following year received the Golden Hat of Cologne, given yearly to a personality in the cultural and social sphere.

By 1977, between 100, 000 and 200, 000 had moved to San Francisco from all over the United States, changing the political and cultural profile of the city.

As Bourdieu ( 1977 ) maintains, the effect of symbolic violence such as host cultural coercion, the catalyst for " positive " cross-cultural adaptation according to Gudykunst and Kim ( 2003 ), results in the personal disintegration of the minority person's psyche.

1977 saw punk rock spreading around the world, and it became a major international cultural phenomenon.

Employed at a local cultural center after 1977, he soon won recognition as an outspoken new literary talent.

The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots ( 1977 ), led to a cultural sensation in the United States.

Formerly the " Miner's Institute " ( Plas Mwynwyr ), which was built in 1926 and dominated the social and cultural life of the village ( citation ) until 1977 when it closed.

His book Public Relations ( 1977 ) shows press conferences with deer-in-the-headlight writers and politicians, protesters beaten by cops, and museum parties frequented by the self-satisfied cultural glitterati.

Louis Pauwels, former director of the fantastic realist magazine Planète, entered in September 1977 the cultural services of Le Figaro, and became in October 1978 the director of the newly created weekly Le Figaro Magazine.

Maps, which is set during the Ogaden conflict of 1977, employs the innovative technique of second-person narration for exploring questions of cultural identity in a post-independence world.

Seracini, who heads Editech, a Florence-based company he founded in 1977 focused on the “ diagnostics of cultural heritage ", used high-resolution digital scans as well as thermographic, ultra sound, ultra-violet and infra-red diagnostic techniques to conclude that the painting could not be restored without damaging it and that Leonardo only did the underdrawing.