CULTURE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Culture and Public Policy

Culture and Public Policy

The relationship between culture and identity is not a trivial matter in the modern world. In the information age, American popular culture is ubiquitous, and it has begun to affect (some would say submerge) national and local cultures throughout the globe. For citizens, who share a continent and one of their two official languages with the United States, the issue of culture and identity has been at times almost a national obsession. Citizens have debated and they have legislated to protect their culture and their cultural institutions; they have ...