Many of today's academics that employ the term, cultural imperialism, are heavily informed by the work of Foucault, Derrida, Said, and other poststructrualist and postcolonialist theorists.

Particularly influential for many who utilize the term, Cultural imperialism, is his philosophical interpretation of power and his concept of governmentality.

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

) Therefore, those who disagree with cultural relativism and / or constructivism may critique the employment of the term, cultural imperialism on those terms.

Other major critiques are that the term is not defined well, and employs further terms that are not defined well, and therefore lacks explanatory power, that cultural imperialism is hard to measure, and that the theory of a legacy of colonialism is not always true.

The European concept of " race ", along with many of the ideas now associated with the term, arose at the time of the scientific revolution, which introduced and privileged the study of natural kinds, and the age of European imperialism and colonization which established political relations between Europeans and peoples with distinct cultural and political traditions.

James Anthony Froude, Charles Kingsley and Edward A. Freeman used the term " Anglo-Saxon " to justify racism and imperialism, claiming that the " Anglo-Saxon " ancestry of the English made them racially superior to the colonised peoples.

In 1978, the Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said published his influential and controversial book, Orientalism, which " would forever redefine " the word ; he used the term to describe a pervasive Western tradition, both academic and artistic, of prejudiced outsider interpretations of the East, shaped by the attitudes of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The term Cocacolonization is used to describe cases where a country's indigenous culture is eroded by a corporate mass-culture, usually from a powerful, industrialized country such as the United States ( see cultural imperialism ).

American imperialism is a controversial term referring to the influence of the United States.

Miller argues that the overuse and abuse of the term " imperialism " makes it nearly meaningless as an analytical concept.

More specifically, critics of American influence contend that the Bush Doctrine of advancing democracy throughout all the world is all that is needed to justify the term " American Imperialism ", while advocates of American influence define imperialism as colonialism to some degree and who claim protectionism rather than imperialism for recent American international behavior.

The term, however, has also been employed by critics who have denounced the museum as a symbol of gentrification and cultural imperialism.

Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana ( 1960 – 66 ), coined the term neo-colonialism in the book Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism ( 1965 ) As a political scientist, Nkrumah theoretically developed and extended, to the post – War 20th century, the socio-economic and political arguments presented by Lenin in the pamphlet Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism ( 1917 ), about 19th-century imperialism as the logical extension of geopolitical power to meet the financial investment needs of the political economy of capitalism.

American imperialism is a term referring to the economic, military, and cultural influence of the United States on other countries.

Imperial is a term that is used to describe something that relates to an empire, emperor, or the concept of imperialism.

The term imperialism was used from the third quarter of the nineteenth century to describe various forms of political control by a greater power over less powerful territories or nationalities, although analytically the phenomena which it denotes may differ greatly from each other and from the " New " imperialism.

During the Scramble for Africa, and following unsuccessful attempts to retain its independence against British imperialism, Buganda became the centre of the Uganda Protectorate in 1894 ; the name Uganda, the Swahili term for Buganda, was adopted by British officials.

He argues that " Ulysses " forms part of the prehistory of imperialism — a term that only appeared in the language in 1851.

The word " race ," along with many of the ideas now associated with the term were products of European imperialism and colonization during the age of exploration.

The three MPs were first elected in the nineteenth century when the term nationalism in Quebec referred to Canadian nationalism, as opposed to British imperialism or a desire for an independent Quebec.

During Batlle's second term, he began a new movement and referred to as Batllismo: concerted state action against foreign economic imperialism.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

This includes ions as well as neutral atoms and, unless otherwise stated, for the purposes of this discussion it should be assumed that the term atom includes ions.

author Debra Dickerson has argued that the term " black " should refer strictly to the descendents of Africans brought to America as slaves, and not the sons and daughters of black immigrants who lack that ancestry.

From a strictly aerodynamic point of view, the term should refer only to those side-effects arising as a result of the changes in airflow from an incompressible fluid ( similar in effect to water ) to a compressible fluid ( acting as a gas ) as the speed of sound is approached.

Professional mathematicians sometimes use the term ( higher ) arithmetic when referring to more advanced results related to number theory, but this should not be confused with elementary arithmetic.

Bede wrote in Latin and never used the term and his list of kings holding imperium should be treated with caution, not least in that he overlooks kings such as Penda of Mercia, who clearly held some kind of dominance during his reign.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

The views range from those that hold that benzodiazepines are not effective long-term and that they should be reserved for treatment-resistant cases to that they are as effective in the long term as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

The view of most scholars ( see organology ) is that the term " brass instrument " should be defined by the way the sound is made, as above, and not by whether the instrument is actually made of brass.

The term " filial " ( meaning " of a child ") characterizes the respect that a child, originally a son, should show to his parents.

The term conservative was meant to signify that Jews should attempt to conserve Jewish tradition, rather than reform or abandon it, and does not imply the movement's adherents are politically conservative.

Concrete should not be confused with cement, because the term cement refers to the material used to bind the aggregate materials of concrete.

A more correct term should be " mounted infantry " instead of " cavalry ", as horses were primarily used as a means of transportation, for which they were very suitable in view of the very poor road conditions in pre-war Poland.

It should be noted that while the term " armoured engineer vehicle " is used specifically to describe these multi-purpose tank based engineering vehicles, that term is also used more generically in British and Commonwealth militaries to describe all heavy tank based engineering vehicles used in the support of mechanized forces.

While cyberspace should not be confused with the Internet, the term is often used to refer to objects and identities that exist largely within the communication network itself, so that a Website, for example, might be metaphorically said to " exist in cyberspace.

If every term of every definiens must itself be defined, " where at last should we stop?

The term ‘ docetic ’ should be used with caution, since its use is rather nebulous.

The guiding principle for the qualification of Dublin Core elements, colloquially known as the Dumb-Down Principle, states that an application that does not understand a specific element refinement term should be able to ignore the qualifier and treat the metadata value as if it were an unqualified ( broader ) element.

It should be noted that the term " lifestyle " to signify BDSM is occasionally a contention topic in the BDSM community and that some dominatrices may dislike the term.

R ' Nachman Krochmal suggests that the term " son of David " should be interpreted to mean " descendant of David ".

The Czech President Václav Klaus rejected the term " euroscepticism ", with its purported negative undertones, saying ( at a meeting in April 2012 ) that the expressions for a eurosceptic and his opponent should be " a Euro-realist " and someone who is " Euro-naïve " ( respectively ).

It should, however, be emphasized that Faivre's definition is one of several divergent understandings of the most appropriate use of the term.