List of articles for ‘Culture’ 
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CASHING IN ON COOL:How Corporations Exploit Kids And How We Can Stop It
To be cool is often crucial to the teenage image of self. To avoid being branded “a looser”, you must know which trends and fads are in. Trends like baggy pants and Sprite soft-drinks. But what most teenagers don’t know is where these trends come from. Yes, how did these trends become so linked to [...]
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The Olympics and Cultural Hegemony
The Olympic Games are taken seriously by many countries. Aside from the economic sphere, it is another avenue for the West to display its “superiority” over the rest of the world. How is this achieved? Levi Obijiofor and Sohail Inayatullah take us into the hidden meanings of the world’s greatest sporting event By Levi Obijiofor [...]
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What is dogma?
In her 1993 book “Shame,” Bangladeshi writer Tasrima Naslin draws upon the bloody conflicts generated by clashing religious beliefs: In 1992, hard-line Hindus in India, claiming that the Moslem Basri mosque at Ayodhya was built upon a holy Hindu site, tore the mosque to the ground. Naslin uses this actual event as a stepping-off point [...]