And one thing they've found is that how people respond to these cultural imports depends on their existing cultural context.

This was a cultural import.

Despite many cultural imports from China during their subsequent history, the islanders conspicuously failed to acquire a reverence for jade.

Such orgiastic textual debate was the fashion of the day, especially in regard to cultural imports with a British accent.

Flint paused as the audience sat spellbound, trying to comprehend the cultural import of what they were seeing.

Measuring audience demand for Soviet cultural imports is difficult, in part because many commercial producers who sponsor such events do not release profit-and-loss statements.

Many smaller countries have been less welcoming of cultural imports.

The measure follows a more timid relaxation of controls on "cultural imports" from Japan that began in 1988.

What is more, South Korea, which long banned cultural imports from Japan, its former colonial ruler, was preparing to lift restrictions starting in 1998.

In fact, as the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.