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  2. Dominant culture - Wikipedia

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    A dominant culture is a cultural practice that is dominant within a particular political, social or economic entity, in which multiple cultures co-exist. It may refer to a language , religion or ritual practices , social value and/or social custom .

  3. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants or Wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of English, or more broadly British, descent who are generally part of the white dominant culture or upper-class and historically often the Mainline Protestant elite.

  4. Cultural hegemony - Wikipedia

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    In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who shape the culture of that society—the beliefs and explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that the worldview of the ruling class becomes the accepted cultural norm. [1]

  5. Dominant narrative - Wikipedia

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    Dominant narratives are often discussed in tandem with counternarratives. This term has been described as an "invisible hand" that guides reality and perceived reality. [2] Dominant culture is defined as the majority cultural practices of a society. [3] Dominant narrative is similar in some ways to the ideas of metanarrative or grand narrative.

  6. Cultural pluralism - Wikipedia

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    Cultural pluralism can be practiced at varying degrees by a group or an individual. [5] A prominent example of pluralism is the United States, in which a dominant culture with strong elements of nationalism, a sporting culture, and an artistic culture contained also smaller groups with their own ethnic, religious, and cultural norms. [citation ...

  7. Forced assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Forced assimilation is the involuntary cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups, during which they are forced by a government to adopt the language, national identity, norms, mores, customs, traditions, values, mentality, perceptions, way of life, and often the religion and ideology of an established and generally larger community belonging to a dominant culture.

  8. Jerry Seinfeld Explains Why He Misses ‘Dominant ... - AOL

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    Jerry Seinfeld based his Netflix film Unfrosted on the past eras of “dominant masculinity” of the 1960s. “I think it is the key element and that is an agreed-upon hierarchy, which I think is ...

  9. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Cultural assimilation does not guarantee social alikeness. Geographical and other natural barriers between cultures, even if created by the predominant culture, may be culturally different. Cultural assimilation can happen either spontaneously or forcibly, the latter when more dominant cultures use various means aimed at forced assimilation. [2]