![]() ![]() The lust for new lands that brought Russia to Alaska and eventually California began in the 16th century, when the country was a fraction of its current size. The ‘soft gold’ of the sea otter was what drew so many Russians to Alaska. The other is from the perspective of my people, who have lived in Alaska for thousands of years, and for whom the anniversary of the cession brings mixed emotions, including immense loss but also optimism. ![]() One concerns how the Russians took “possession” of Alaska and eventually ceded it to the U.S. In a way, there are two histories of how Alaska came to be American – and two perspectives. So what prompted Russia to withdraw from its American beachhead? And how did it come to possess it in the first place?Īs a descendant of Inupiaq Eskimos, I have been living and studying this history all my life. states thanks to its abundance of natural resources, such as petroleum, gold and fish, as well as its vast expanse of pristine wilderness and strategic location as a window on Russia and gateway to the Arctic. That sum, amounting to just $113 million in today’s dollars, brought to an end Russia’s 125-year odyssey in Alaska and its expansion across the treacherous Bering Sea, which at one point extended the Russian Empire as far south as Fort Ross, California, 90 miles from San Francisco Bay. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million. ![]() Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. One hundred and fifty years ago, on March 30, 1867, U.S. You are currently browsing the archives for the #-4 China protecting it’s own nation against Californian cultural imperialism? category.Flying toward Denali as a snow storm approached the mountain range.Ĭorrina Lucas, via the Photo Contest Posted in #-4 China protecting it's own nation against Californian cultural imperialism?, #-4 China with Disney characteristics | Leave a Comment » The world is upside down when a communist party is in some regards more culturally conservative than America. But if many of today’s Americans stop being the paragon of vulgarity and return to being a society which doesn’t exploit women and doesn’t disrespect cultural conservatism, then I will go back to supporting Hollywood and Silicon Valley. If the only choice is between California’s disgusting panopticon or China’s non-sleazy panopticon I will aesthetically support the latter, since it’s the lesser of two evils from a culturally conservative perspective. I have no friends or enemies, only a permanent interest in removing libertinism and wokeness from mainstream cultures, and that is the only reason why I have an atom of sympathy with anti-woke and anti-libertine CCP. “Disney and other studios face a tricky proposition when casting movies, since Chinese critics appear to have broadened the statute of limitations on what they consider offensive.” Some A-list stars who run afoul of Communist Party leadership have been denied roles and scrubbed from the internet.” That was the case with the Hong Kong actor Nicholas Tse, who recently renounced his Canadian citizenship. Chinese actors with dual citizenship in other countries have recently renounced it, pledging support to China alone. ” … nationalism has infiltrated China’s own entertainment industry, where directors are routinely hired to helm propaganda pictures and asked to declare publicly that they support the state, according to executives who work in China. After years of lobbying, the company in 2016 opened Shanghai Disney Resort, a $5.5 billion theme-park attraction that was among the first to reopen as the Covid-19 pandemic ebbed, providing Disney with park revenue as its U.S. “Disney remains the most heavily invested studio in China. “Disney and the other studios stand to lose potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in box-office grosses, as well as Chinese fans, who could lose interest in the Marvel superhero series if they can’t see films including “Shang-Chi” and “Eternals.” “Hollywood executives are now observing new scrutiny of Western influence by Chinese audiences, favoritism toward local releases by Chinese officials and an industrywide crackdown overseen by President Xi Jinping that have combined to potentially jeopardize any Hollywood export with a whiff of criticism of the country associated with it.” (…) It’s good from a culturally conservative perspective if CCP weakens the power and influence of Hollywood’s ultra-“liberal” propaganda.ĭisney Meets Roadblocks to Releasing Movies in China It’s therefore natural that Beijing will try to sanction United Coasts of America (UCA) where it hurts: California’s libertine and woke film industry. Washington and Silicon Valley sanction China. ![]()
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