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.

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

I am personally guilty of thinking that the culture war can be at least partially won on style points.

In the respectable guise of religious liberty, the zombie-like Culture War soldiers on.

Different battlefield, but the same “culture war,” the same sides.

We smart people in the big cities all agree that the right has lost the culture war.

But West Virginia is the one place where the right won the culture war.

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