https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq Come with us on a treasure hunt through the 3rd part of the essay. Each 🔑 represents a treasure en-us 2022-10-28 13:31:43 UTC 2025-11-27 16:38:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f511.png steinbauerlaura https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361048863 - London as a "cultural dark star" 
- in London, there is the Portland TV Centre (BBC centre), SOHO (entertainment hub), Fleet Street (home of London's newspaper industry)
- with all of these areas London becomes a cultural centre which makes it more dominant]]> 2022-10-28 19:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361048863 steinbauerlaura https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361052077 - the notion of cultural imperialism ties into the satellite metaphor 
- those cultures surrounding London, namely the Scots, Welsh and Irish, cannot escape London's gravitational pull 
- England (more precisely London) is the dominant culture
- cultural imperialism can also be associated with colonization, which brings us to the 3rd key of this treasure hunt]]> 2022-10-28 19:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361052077 steinbauerlaura https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361057652 - “Send us your poor, your huddled masses and we'll dress them in Paul Smith, Agnes B, Vivienne Westwood and Jasper Conran. “
- all of these individuals are fashion designers
- they all design what could be called "haute-couture"; very fancy, luxurious and pricey clothes
- parallel to British history
- British colonizers as fashion designers dressing the colonized peoples in designer clothing, i.e. imposing their "civilized" behavior onto them ]]> 2022-10-28 19:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361057652 steinbauerlaura https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361058938 Who's that guy?
- that's Swift. No, not Taylor Swift, of course. It's Jonathan Swift🎉.
- an important Anglo-Irish author who lived in the 18th century. 
- his writing can be considered as the absolute "zenith of irony", as Self puts it.
- in the essay "A Modest Proposal", Swift proposes a solution to the problem of poverty in Ireland at that time
- his idea: starving Irish Catholic families should sell their children as food  
- Swift uses satire to force the incapable English government to deal with the poverty in Ireland. 
- reference to Swift because Will Self also loves satire]]> 2022-10-28 19:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361058938 steinbauerlaura https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361061791 - England's culture is not black and white
- England is both a colonizer and colonized, bigoted and liberal, introverted and expansive, hermetic yet cosmopolitan
- Will Self illustrates that the English culture is full of contradictions and oppositions. ]]> 2022-10-28 19:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/steinbauerlaura/o8zp8war1i0ajsqq/wish/2361061791