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Introduction
The primary focus is the French governmental rejection of popular American music, as well as other components of American culture, in the second half of the twentieth century, derived from France's foreign policy with the USA, and it~ culture. What was interesting were the steps that the French took to protect their culture from what they saw, and continue to see, as the imminent destruction at the hands of popular American culture.
Why does the French government reject popular American music during the second half of the Twentieth Century? This rejection is mainly because the French government believes that the American culture is 'culturally imperialistic,' its inf1u~nce in other countries diminishing their native cultures. And since the American culture is extremely hard, if not impossible, to control by the local governments, then foreign countries are threatened of being Americanized (Kuisel, 3-4). Because of this, this threatens the French government, and they......

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