ABSTRACT
In anthropological reference we speak of “culture-borrowing,” of the influence and impact of one culture upon another, of the adoption and incorporation of “culture-traits” originating in other “culture-areas.” Intolerance and violence, animated by primitivist philosophies, are active in many places and at all times to resist these processes and above all to clamp an alien unity on the cultural life. The ideal toward which the newer world must therefore strive can be stated briefly as the free multiplicity of culture groups within the universality of a coordinated external order. The imposition of the dominant culture takes place in diverse ways according to the conditions. Thus in some areas the power-bearing culture owns also sufficient prestige to make the institutions and the practices in which it is embodied prevail without resistance over the whole country. Soviet Russia presents another and very different type of cultural dominance, politically imposed.
