Research Paper on:
Cultural Impacts of Imported Media

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seems to come with an increasingly global world. Cultural and regional flavor is lost in respect to a generic type of news that one can receive almost anywhere in the  world. Although to some extent globalization is positive in that it provides some sense of continuity and allows one culture to visit another, there are detriments as well. The fact  that imported media are likely to operate at a cultural discount is disturbing to many. There had been a time when Hollywood was the apotheosis of indigenous, authentic culture,  and that position continues to be held by cultural elites in many nations (Olson, 2001). In one round of GATT talks, for example, France tried to limit the amount of  American media programming that would be allowed within its borders as many fear American media is based on the premise that American values are being exported within that media  (2001). This is frightening to those who want to preserve their own cultural heritage. Some in fact see American media people like soldiers in a Trojan Horse, but recent studies  have found that indigenous cultures are quite resilient in their interpretations of Western media (2001). The era of throwing up barricades to resist imported media is over and is replaced  by an interest in the hybridity or interstitiality of contemporary cultures (2001). Does imported media really operate at a cultural discount? Can imported media harm culture? Wiggins (2000)  asks in respect to the outing of gay men in Taiwan: "Was this the expression of a desire to become western, the other, resulting from the relentless distribution of ideological  signs through imported media?" (p.137). The observation that perhaps American ways are being implemented in Asia or any other place for that matter attests to the problems inherent in imported