The enormous vogue of things Mexican: cultural relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935

This article examines the social and cultural relations that take place in surfing communities on the Mexican side of the border with the United States. Through ethnographic work with surfers from Northern Baja California, we identified different cross-border processes encouraged by this lifestyle sport: the formation of binational surfing communities, commodity circulation, localism, territorial disputes, and shared environmental problems. We point out that surfing on the border creates a system of affinities and rivalries based on the identity and nationalism, marked by the inequality and asymmetry between these two countries. This article also addresses the transnational cooperation and political actions undertaken to protect the oceans and beaches enjoyed by surfers in this border region.

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The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2057451 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 426-427

Author(s):

Maureen L. P. Patterson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

South Asia ◽

South Asian ◽

The United States ◽

New Delhi ◽

Cultural Relations ◽

American Publishing

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Off Center: Power and Cultural Relations Between Japan and the United States.

Monumenta Nipponica ◽

10.2307/2385110 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 400

Author(s):

Charles Shiro Inouye ◽

Masao Miyoshi

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Cultural Relations

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ROMANTICISM OUTSIDE THE VECTOR OF «INFLUENCE». MODEL OF AMERICAN-POLISH CULTURAL RESONANCE

Polish Studies of Kyiv ◽

10.17721/psk.2019.35.10-19 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 10-19

Author(s):

J. Ławski

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

18Th Century ◽

The United States ◽

Intercultural Relations ◽

Cultural Relations ◽

Influence Model ◽

Dependence Relations ◽

Cultural Resonance ◽

Transmission Of Values

The author of the article considers Polish-American literary and cultural relations from the 18th century till the time of romanticism. He notices that those relations are falling into a model which is impossible to describe by the traditional models that use the category of «influence» [Harald Bloom] or postcolonial dependence. The basis of American-Polish relations is the idea of freedom, fight for freedom and even a peculiar cult of freedom in both nations. The personifications of this common relation are the heroes of fight for freedom in Poland and the United States, namely Kazimierz Pułaski and Tadeusz Kościuszko. As the author notices, studies on these relations lead to the conclusion that stand apart from the dependence relations between historical and cultural phenomena in intercultural relations. Thus, article describes American- Polish relations as a realization of a certain model called «the model of resonance, circulation and transmission» of values, patterns, common ideas.

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