An Internal Criticism of " the Discourse of Western Cultural Invasion" with a Focus on Policy-Making Inconsistencies

The discourse of western cultural invasion has been the dominant discussion in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s policy-making in order to resist the effects of western invading culture first and plan for preserving and strengthening religious culture and Islamic values then. The aim of this paper is to review “the discourse of cultural invasion” based on the logic of “internal criticism”. This study demonstrates that due to some real and cognitive widespread changes in the last two decades and the emergence of universal ever-changing cultural trends, there has appeared some inconsistencies and disagreements in the discourse: disagreement on fighting ‘modern’ or ‘western’ issue, ‘normality’ or ‘abnormality’ of culture, the effect of ‘Japanese Myth’ on the mind of cultural policy-makers, negotiations on the ‘history of cultural invasion’, the problem of ‘the definition of culture’, the referents of ‘the invading culture’, transition from ‘cultural invasion’ to ‘soft war’, and the developments in the field of ‘policy-making’ are of major difficulties in the discourse of western cultural invasion, which must be re-theorized according to its initial aims and current changes.