Critical Analysis Of The Article On Cultural Exchange And Survival

The article on Cultural Exchange and Survival is divided into four parts. These include contact and domination, resistance and survival, making and remaking culture, and the continuance of diversity. Each part has their own categories. For contact and domination its categories are development and environmentalism and religious change. For resistance and survival its categories are weapons of the week and cultural imperialism. For making and remaking cultural its categories are popular culture, indigenizing popular culture, and a world system of images. Finally, the continuance of diversity do not have their own categories. This paper will summarize each of the five parts and each of the categories related to each part.

Contact and domination

Fiske also says, "the meanings I make from a text are pleasurable when I feel that they are my meanIngs and that they relate to my everyday life in a practical, direct way." Popular culture also results in individuals drawing on it to express resistance, through resisting unequal power relations they face each day, like at work, with the family, or in the

They stay linked to their homeland and each other through media, as groups move away. Print, radio, and television, can spread and help create ethnic and national identities, as well as, enhancing national cultural identity, by diffusing cultures of countries within their own boundaries. A survey was done in the mid-1980s, to see how many Nigerian viewers preferred local productions, or imports. The results were only ten percent favored imports, five percent preferred local productions, and fifteen percent liked the two options. They did this, because national productions are highly popular in Mexico, Japan, Egypt, Nigeria, and India, and they wanted to see what their views were. A world system of images also states, in fantasies, myths, stories, songs, and dream, all express