Full cultural assimilation cannot erase ineradicable traces of another place
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- Calls for new culture come from socially displaced old strata, not new ones (similarity 0.83)
- Structuralism inverts culturalism’s claim by making experience an effect of categories (similarity 0.83)
- Culture as shared meaning-making became democratized rather than elite civilization. (similarity 0.82)
- Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters (similarity 0.82)
- Orientalists recycled predecessors’ texts instead of observing the real Orient (similarity 0.81)
- Leaving key emotion-words untranslated resists monolingual Western hegemony over meaning (similarity 0.81)
- Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field (similarity 0.80)
- Racism and hostility intensify rather than erase traditional identifications. (similarity 0.80)
- Colonial archives preserve fantasies of what might yet be, not just events. (similarity 0.80)
- Language creates consciousness of self as separate from the environment. (similarity 0.80)
- Camp experience resists comparison with prior institutions of suffering. (similarity 0.80)
- Cultural influence detached from popular masses lacks real political weight (similarity 0.80)
- Declining ex-imperial societies scapegoat minorities to explain their problems (similarity 0.79)
- Marx treats culture as a productive force materialized in labor and language (similarity 0.79)
- Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish. (similarity 0.79)