
ZIZ187 Ideology as Augmented Reality (15.05.2017)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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Is There a Cultural Imperialism?
I agree with those who defend Tibetan way of life and say the Chinese have no right to intervene brutally from outside imposing their customs. But obviously this Chinese ancient way of life, well, you know, that's crucial to see. It was not a unified stable harmonious tradition then evil communists come and destroy it. This is ridiculous. A nice example of this external colonialist intervention when there was the civil war in Bosnia. American feminists wanted to play this card as we sympathize with raped women. So they established a contact with Bosnian organization, women's organization of victims of rape. And to clarify their position, they sent them a questionnaire which was then for years a laughing matter in Bosnia
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