European Culture Hegemony

Introduction
Padget stated that, hegemony is the political, cultural and economic dominance of one state over another state (Padget, 2000). Upon establishing their imperial legitimacy, the Europeans implemented and utilized multiple strategies to secure their hegemonic dominance by deeming other cultures peripheral and illegitimate. This paper is going to analyze and illustrate Caribbean cultural disaccumulation by using Padget’s plural cultural systems concept. The paper will then critically analyze the Europeans methods of establishing and maintaining their cultural legitimacy. Cultural differential accumulation of the European culture over the Caribbean cultured will also be critically explored and examined. In addition to this, the …show more content…
For instance, Padget eluded to the idea that as the hegemonic shift occurs the newly established hegemony has to ensure that their culture is seen as the most dominant and desirable choice (Padget, 2000). This concept was depicted in Besson’s article when the planter class established Anglican as the only accepted religion and considered other regions abominations that should not and cannot be practiced at all (Besson, 1995). I believe in doing this the planter class prevented the potential for the African Caribbean people from passing down their African religion and religious practices to their African Caribbean children. Thus causing cultural disaccumulation for the African Caribbean people since the children have no knowledge of the African religious practice, they will be unable to pass the tradition to the next generation. Furthermore, if the African children were never taught the African religious practices, they would have no other religion to rebel with; therefore they will be forced to accept the British hegemonic dominant