culture war

[kuhl-cher wawr]

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noun

a conflict or struggle for dominance between groups within a society or between societies, arising from their differing beliefs, practices, etc..
a culture war over the right to own a gun; China’s culture war with the Western world.

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1875–80; a loan translation of German Kulturkampf ( def. ). The contemporary sense was first recorded in 1985–90 .

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Mainstream parties could patch together winning coalitions with banker-friendly fiscal policies and modest doses of right-wing culture war — promising to get tough with immigrants, indulge anti-trans hysteria and crack down on rhetorical wokeness — without entirely going over to the Dark Side.

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The president was leading a culture war more than he was a country, and consumers wanted to know where the entertainers they loved stood and what they would stand up for.

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Catholic Conference of Bishops, Gomez pursued culture war nonsense instead of actual issues.

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In this episode, Amanda details how a logic-defying culture war about litter boxes turned into a real bill aimed at forbidding kids from playing pretend at school.

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He hammered on culture war issues of immigration, nationalism and family values.

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