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<p>The role of culture in foreign and security relations has advanced to a prominence in the  present and demands further analysis and reflection by those responsible for the making  of policy and strategy. At the same time, an understanding of this vital term as a feature  of society and state suffers from a blinkered perspective of culture. Many observers  neither understand the past and present role of culture in society and politics, nor have  much interest in culture in the form of high culture, especially in the performing arts  other than at an unsophisticated level. Further, the psychological impact of war and  terrorism and economic upheaval channels sentiments of reason away from religion and  culture into such phenomena as escapism or political resignation. Or the impact of war  channels the desire for symbols, narrative, metaphor and an interpretation of politics and  society into extremism that camouflages itself in the realm of culture with damaging  effect for state and society on the western, liberal and tolerant model. As a result, people  learn about cultures through a distorted lens of fear that leads them to an unconscious  habit of profiling individuals into cultural stereotypes or images of the enemy reflecting  cultural ideas.
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<br>Subjects: Performing arts; International relations; Multiculturalism in art</div>
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DeCarli, Ashley M.</div>
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