Cultural homogeneity has a material basis, not an essentialist one.

Evidence

Of course, great cultural similarities also exist among countries that occupy analogous positions in the global capitalist system, and there are similarities in many cases that have been bequeathed by the similarities of socioeconomic structures in the pre-capitalist past. The point is not to construct a typology that is simply the obverse of Jameson’s, bur rather to define the material basis for a fair degree of cultural homogenization among the advanced capitalist countries and the lack of that kind of homogenization in the rest of the capitalist world. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 405

Categorization

• XREF: Ahmad grounds cultural similarity in shared structural position rather than identity essence — directly relevant to the materialist-vs-discourse axis of the reader’s research; comparable positions, not shared essence, generate similarity. — connects to: The preference for segregated space is culturally produced, not innate.; Ideology is shaped within material institutions, not by class or economics. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 129; The world’s unity is material — one capitalist mode of production — not ideological. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 401 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Shows Ahmad’s positive alternative: material-basis explanation of similarity replaces both essentialist identity and homogenizing Otherness.

Broader Connections

• Ideology is shaped within material institutions, not by class or economics. #corroborates (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 129
• The preference for segregated space is culturally produced, not innate. #corroborates (0.75)
• The world’s unity is material — one capitalist mode of production — not ideological. #corroborates (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 401