#TheoryCulturalImperialismUS

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Context cartoon references #IRLPhotographerJoeRosenthal's iconic #1945_RaisingTheFlagOnIwoJima #NarrativeWarWWII image of #OrgUSFedAFMMarines raising the #SymbolEmblemFlagUSOldGlory atop Mount Suribachi during the battle of #ToponymAsiaEastJapanOgasawaraIwoJima ^[Wikipedia]

"Choosing the right carnival costume has become more and more difficult The prohibited list includes e.g. rastafari, oriental woman, Arab sheik, Africans and Indians, because of 'cultural appropriation' and other woke madness that came from America" #BeliefTheismRastafari #OtheringCaricatureImperialismOriental #IdentityArabSheikh #OtheringCaricatureImperialismBlackfaceBlackingUp #OtheringCaricatureImperialismAmericanIndian #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #TheoryCulturalImperialismUS

#NewspaperDEBerlinerWestdeutscheAllgemeineZeitungWAZ https://www.waz.de/panorama/karneval-2023-kostuem-verboten-fasching-meiden-rassismus-id237643965.html #OrgClassifPPDECDUBorisRhein #IRLJudgeTanjaRaabRhein ^[Wikipedia] #FictionalCharacterMohrVonMorlau

#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #OrgClassifPPNLVolkspartijVoorVrijheidEnDemocratieVVDMarkRutte #OrgClassifPPNLDemocratenD66 #OrgClassifPPNLVolkspartijVoorVrijheidEnDemocratieVVD #OrgClassifPPNLPartijVanDeArbeidPvdA #OrgIntlWEF #OrgIntlWEFKlausSchwab

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Addendum this tweet presents a criticism of NATO, which is also sympathetic to the #PleaBetrayalWesternNATOExpansion narrative used by #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin to justify his illegal #2022_InvasionOfUkraine

"ZATERDAG, 10 FEBRUARI 1990 Baker heeft Gorbatsjov gezegd dat Washington ermee instemt dat in een verenigd Duitsland geen uitbreiding van NAVO-strijdkrach-ten naar het oosten zal plaats-vinden. (Het Vrije Volk) There will be no extension of NATO's jurisdiction for military presence one inch to the East (James Baker, Secretary of State - 9 February 1990) Uitbreiding van de NAVO richting Russische grens. 1990 2009 GERARD [SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1990 Baker told Gorbachev that Washington agreed that in a united Germany there would be no extension of NATO forces to the east. (The Free People) There will be no extension of NATO's jurisdiction for military presence one inch to the East (James Baker, Secretary of State - February 9, 1990) NATO's expansion towards the Russian border. 1990 2009 GERARD]" #1990_ #IRLHistoricalFigureMikhailGorbachev #OrgUSFedFBIJamesBaker #OrgIntlNATOOTAN #2009_ #ToponymRussia

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Context #1990_VertragUberDieAbschliessendeRegelungInBezugAufDeutschland ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPDEFreieDemokratischeParteiFDPHansDietrichGenscher ^[Wikipedia] #OrgIntlNATOOTANManfredWorner ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPBEVooruitWillyClaes ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary #IRLScholarNoamChomsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvAAwiyxJMw (possibly, recorded in #2010_) #TheoryCulturalImperialismUS #OrgClassifPPDECDUHelmutKohl ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyMadeleineAlbright ^[Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSCouncilOnForeignRelationsCFRRichardHaass ^[Wikipedia] #NewspaperUKBrdshtFinancialTimesFT #2010_GoodbyeToEuropeAsHighRankingPower https://www.ft.com/content/ab995e96-5dfa-11df-8153-00144feab49a

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Addendum the "(Het Vrije Volk)" attribution *might* have some reference to former Dutch social democratic newspaper #NewspaperNLHetVrijeVolk ^{[Wikipedia] [US Library of Congress]} Additionally, the reference to "Gerard", which appears on the bottom righthand corner of the newspaper clipping seems to be a reference to #IRLPrivateCitizenGerardDeBoer ^[blog]

"I am white. White is used by snowflakes and racists who adhere to the American-imported and abhorrent critical race theory." #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #TheoryCulturalImperialismUS

#OrgUSHouseSelectCommitteeOnTheJanuary6Attack #PleaGetGoWokeGoBroke

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Addendum meme seemingly seeks to justify #ToponymRussia's #2022_InvasionOfUkraine through using narrative about #OrgIntlNATOOTAN boundary expansion. #TheoryCulturalImperialismUS ?

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Context "No treaty signed by NATO Allies and Russia included provisions on NATO membership. Decisions on NATO membership are taken by consensus among all Allies. Russia does not have a veto. The idea of NATO enlargement beyond a united Germany was not on the agenda in 1989, particularly as the Warsaw Pact still existed until 1991. Mikhail Gorbachev said in an interview in 2014: 'The topic of 'NATO expansion' was not discussed at all, and it wasn't brought up in those years. I say this with full responsibility. Not a single Eastern European country raised the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. Western leaders didn't bring it up either.'" https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/115204.htm #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #1955_WarsawPact #PleaBetrayalWesternNATOExpansion

#TheoryRevisionismHistorical "U.S. PROTECTORATE OF EUROPE" "European People Want USA Army Out! USA Army Not Welcome in Europe ! End Occupation of Germany & Europe! European Demand USA Army Move Out! Never was Welcome,Move Out of Europe"

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Addendum while this meme explicitly references #TheoryCulturalImperialismUS it could also be used to justify #ToponymRussia's #2022_InvasionOfUkraine through using narrative about #OrgIntlNATOOTAN boundary expansion i.e. are they being a #PhenomnPropagandaUsefulIdiot ?

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Context "No treaty signed by NATO Allies and Russia included provisions on NATO membership. Decisions on NATO membership are taken by consensus among all Allies. Russia does not have a veto. The idea of NATO enlargement beyond a united Germany was not on the agenda in 1989, particularly as the Warsaw Pact still existed until 1991. Mikhail Gorbachev said in an interview in 2014: 'The topic of 'NATO expansion' was not discussed at all, and it wasn't brought up in those years. I say this with full responsibility. Not a single Eastern European country raised the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. Western leaders didn't bring it up either.'" https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/115204.htm #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #PleaBetrayalWesternNATOExpansion #1955_WarsawPact

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Supplementary #OrgUSPoliticalActionCommitteePACMeidasTouchBenMeiselas "It's not going to happen, that's what started this whole thing..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr2WyDC49PE&t=235s #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #PhenomnTalkingPointsRussian #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKeirStarmer #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin

#NMUSBloombergOpinionTylerCowen ^[tweet] "Too many critics of wokeism make the mistake of focusing on purely local status relations. They are obsessed with the influence of woke forces in their intellectual communities -- their universities, their media universe, and so on. Oddly but perhaps appropriately, this is exactly the mistake that the woke themselves make. " https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/woke-movement-is-global-and-america-should-be-mostly-proud #TauntWokeism #IRLActorSydneySweeney and #IRLActorBrittanyOGrady in #TVTheWhiteLotus "The French clearly see wokeism as a carrier of American cultural influence. 'French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas -- specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism -- are undermining their society,' the New York Times reported in February".

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Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesNorimitsuOnishi "Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture. Pitted against them is a younger, more diverse guard that considers these theories as tools to understanding the willful blind spots of an increasingly diverse nation that still recoils at the mention of race, has yet to come to terms with its colonial past and often waves away the concerns of minorities as identity politics." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html #ToponymEuropeFrance #MetaphorThreatExistential #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREEmmanuelMacron #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREJeanMichelBlanquer #CatchcryCancelCulture #OrgFRParisOperaAlexanderNeef #OtheringCaricatureImperialismBlackfaceBlackingUp #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryNWord #OrgClassifPPFRRassemblementNationalRNMarineLePen #NewspaperFRBrdshtLeMonde #ToponymAmericaNorthCanadaOntarioToronto #IRLScholarStephaneBeaud and #IRLScholarGerardNoiriel (2021). 'Race et sciences sociales: Essai sur les usages publics d'une catégorie' [Race and the Social Sciences:essays on public usage of a category]. #NarrativeBelongingNationalIdentity #MetaphorWarfareCulture #PoliticsNationalismFrench #TheoryCulturalImperialismUS

#MetaphorVersusUsThem #IdentityGlobalSouth #LiteralWeaponBomb #PhenomnMongeringWar

#NMUSCNN #ToponymEastMiddleIran #NMUSFOXFNCTheFive

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Context #NMUKITVThamesTelevisionJulianManyon ^[Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB3HjAysN7Y&t=284s #IRLPrivateCitizenMasoumehEbtekar #TheoryCulturalImperialismUS ^[Wikipedia] #NMUKBBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-50391547 #1979_IranHostageCrisis

#BeliefTheismIslamismShariAhlamicLawShariAhLaw "F.O.S.P." FOSP ? https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-facebook-advertisements-congress-investigation/28831346.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41844025