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Culture has never been a easy concept to define. Historically, dominant culture has been synonymous with the rise and fall of empires, national sovereignty, lingual differences and religious disputes etc. While cultural diversity still exists on many different social planes, people are still fascinated by the idea that culture as we have known it, is dead, or at least dying. The histories of homogenous cultures in Europe and throughout the world is varied. As we look back to empires that ruled and dominated, we can note how their (imperial) culture spread through the occupied territories. When investigating the trend of European homogeneity we must look critically at how the dominant culture is either coexisting with, or oppressing the local culture.

Culture can be said to be specific to nations. In cultural geography a nation is a culture group often living under one sorverign state with other nations (culture groups) for economic necessity and political power (Knox, Marston,......

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