culturism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

culture +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

culturism (countable and uncountable, plural culturisms)

  1. (countable) A trend or tendency to promote one culture over the other cultures.
    • 1946 September 1, John K. Fairbank, “Our Chances in China”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      The Confucian ethic has been discredited, but no new ethic has taken its place. Women have been emancipated. The ancient culturism of the Middle Kingdom has been transmuted into nationalism, pride of culture providing the stuff for pride of race and nation.
    • 1977, Willa K. Baum, Transcribing and Editing Oral History[2]:
      Preserve these (if you have the narrator's permission to do so) for research into the interview situation, the narrator's personality, or the verbal culturisms of the narrator and her group.
    • 2003, Alex Moore, Teaching Multicultured Students: Culturalism and Anti-culturalism in the ...[3]:
      Just as important is the recognition of those forms of theory, pedagogy and curriculum—vestiges of the 'humanist Victorian missionary'—that continue to visit the sins of culturism on children in classrooms.
  2. (politics, uncountable) A right-wing political movement that opposes multiculturalism and promotes Western culture.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From cultură +‎ -ism.

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culturism n (uncountable)

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