Continued Contempt for Foreign Cultures

xsampa

Banned
In the 1950s, Americans typically viewed most foreign cultures as backwards and doomed to destruction/ needing to be Americanized. I even remember a Disney book about foreign cultures predicting that progress would eliminate the cultures described in the book so readers had a reason to appreciate them.
How could America continue to have this attitude? I'm assuming some reduced form of the civil rights movement for immigrants would occur and that immigration would pick up.
 
I always thought that most Americans in the '50s were mostly interested in living better electrically, and didn't care a whit about foreign cultures. And I knew some Americans in the '50s. Oh, well, go ahead and make your contemptuous point.
 
Who says that mindset has gone away completely?

We could probably fine-tune the challenge to "America considerably more contemptuous of foreign cultures than it is now", without getting into absolutle statements about whether it's still contemptuous.

A good place to start, and this almost certainly takes us back pre-1900, is a far more economically developed Mexico, which means less immigration from that country. Also, far less economic development in the USA, which makes it a less attractive migration destination generally.

Post 1900, if you can somehow get rid of the World Wars and the Cold War, while having the 20th Century still be the 20th Century, that would probably go some way toward limiting exposure to foreign cultures, eg. the Bris would still just be seen as the heirs of George III, not stalwart allies in the wars against fascism and Communism, there would be no lionizing of anti-Communist Russian nationalists by the Right, etc.

But overall, I think reduced immigration is the key.
 

xsampa

Banned
I'd agree to fine-tune the question, simply to avoid offense. Reduced immigration is a good start.
 
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