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This analysis ignores the primary effect of imperialism-- its distortion of the economy and culture of the countries it penetrates. In Cuba before the 1959 revolution, for example, the second and third biggest industries were gambling and prostitution, patronized by foreigners; the central question is clearly not merely exploitation in...
ECONOMIC exploitation quickly shows up in the cultural sphere. The basic reason is simple: There is big money to be made in culture, just as in oil or weapons production. Publishing, recording, and film-making are the largest cultural industries, primarily because they all produce for mass consumption markets.
Westernization of the peasantry and the working class is held off, however, for as long as possible. Industrial imperialism depends on workers' accepting the traditional standard of living while laboring at industrial jobs to support foreign companies and the increasing consumer demands of the emerging Western-style managerial elite. The...
The conflict of cultures demands a political choice on the part of artists, who help mold cultural change. The imitators of foreign art ally themselves with foreign exploitation, both cultural and economic. Octavio Paz wrote that Mexican imitators of the European novel presented "a rather sketchy and superficial image" of...
Even stronger has been work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose reputation is based chiefly on the complex novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. This novel's approach to the world grows out of the introspective fantasy to Jorge Luis Borges, who is perhaps the only original, yet uncommitted, modern Lating...