单词 | cultural terrorism |
释义 | > as lemmascultural terrorism cultural terrorism n. a policy of attacking or suppressing cultural values or of destroying cultural treasures; (also) the attacking of artistic freedom of expression. ΚΠ 1939 E. Beneš Democracy Today & Tomorrow v. 176 The national socialist dictatorship..has imposed on the whole Czechoslovak nation the most abject political and cultural terrorism. 1993 Herald (Nexis) 10 Apr. 9 Les's Fabulous Tartan Army are into a more dangerous, more lasting form of cultural terrorism: they're about detonating some of the old artistic categories. 1994 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 2 Feb. e3 Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz joined hundreds of prominent Egyptian writers in signing a statement condemning what they considered Gharib's ‘cultural terrorism’. 2001 Archaeology May 16/1 Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban regime announcing that all pre-Islamic statues in the country were to be destroyed..has been universally condemned as ‘cultural terrorism’. < as lemmas |
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