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monoculture
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mon·o·cul·ture  (mn-klchr)
n.
1. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country.
2. A single, homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.

mono·cultur·al adj.
mono·cultur·al·ism n.

monoculture [ˈmɒnəʊˌkʌltʃə]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) the continuous growing of one type of crop

mon•o•cul•ture (ˈmɒn əˌkʌl tʃər)

n.
the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
[1910–15]
mon′o•cul`tur•al, adj.

monoculture
the use of land for the cultivation of only one type of crop. — monocultural, adj.
See also: Agriculture
Thesaurus Legend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.monoculture - the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)
culture - the raising of plants or animals; "the culture of oysters"
Translations
monoculture [ˈmɒnəʊˌkʌltʃəʳ] Nmonocultivo m
monoculture [ˈmɒnəʊˌkʌltʃəʳ] nmonocoltura


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Plural monoculturalism occurs where a policy of multiculturalism promotes culture as the dominant singular affiliation and ends up in a situation where there is a plurality of monocultures.
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That emphasis on the culturally and temporally disruptive arrivante has force, not just in relation to the outright monoculturalism of traditional Shakespeare criticism, but also in relation to New Historicism's tendency to discover in the works "power's ode to itself," as well as to the strain of Anglo-American critique that amounts, in Wilson's words, to "one long campaign to arraign the plays as guilty by association with the European colonialism, slavery, and pogroms they foretold" (244).
 
 
 
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