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Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
M. Russell Ballard, Clergyman (1928) |
Rona Barrett, Journalist (1936) |
Nick Cannon, Musician (1980) |
Lord Caradon, Diplomat (1907) |
David Carradine, Actor (1936) |
Matt Damon, Actor (1970) |
William Allen Egan, Politician (1914) |
Jim Elliot, Clergyman (1927) |
John W. Gardner, Educator (1912) |
Gus Hall, Businessman (1910) |
Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist (1803) |
Jacques Derrida, Philosopher (2004) |
Henry Fielding, Novelist (1754) |
John Hancock, Politician (1793) |
Gus Kahn, (1941) |
Fernando Lamas, Actor (1982) |