cultural influence
Shaping shared values
Cultural influence is the effect that one group's practices, values, art, or ideas have on another.
Nations exert cultural influence through media, language, and commerce: Hollywood's cultural influence spans the globe.
The term often appears in discussions of soft power, colonialism, or artistic movements.
A person can also be a cultural influence: She cites her grandmother as an early cultural influence.
- national identityShared sense of nationhood
- identityWho someone is
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- shared valuesPrinciples held in common
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
oral history · symbolism · design · globalization · traditions · social norms · values · innovation · soft power · colonialism · nationalism · ancestry · counterculture · diplomacy · stereotypes · diaspora · folklore · propaganda
- influencepersuasion, sway, clout, leverage, impact
- culture in literaturefolklore, mythology, oral tradition, folk tales, literary heritage
- soft powersoft power, cultural diplomacy, goodwill tours, educational exchanges, exchange programs
- Latin LiteratureCicero, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Caesar
- literary studiescriticism, literary history, modernism, literary movements, literary themes
- Cupid and PsychePsyche, Cupid, Eros, Venus, Aphrodite
cultural influencemilitary force
Armed combat personnel
hard power · coercion · economic sanctions · brute force · gunboat diplomacy