Intergalactic Summit

This. You need to read more and shoot less, General.



Yes, and if we're counting successor states, then you must account for the various successor states of the Raata Empire. We can play this game all night.

Down with this sort of thing.

And there you have it, the voice of experience—an ideological university student.

Since the vast number of items mentioned in the OP were entertainment items, and most here seem to be commenting on other matters, I figure i should comment on the entertainment issue.

Many here, speaking against the spread of 'Gallente culture' reference poison, corruption and the like.
They insinuate that many are being forced to take this 'poison' and are being corrupted by it.

To these people I have to mention the simple fact that while the Federation may produce a large and varied amount of entertainment goods, and may export these items to foreign planets and systems, it is not the Federate government, or any huge over-arching plot that drives the export of these goods.

It is simple supply and demand. The many millions of corporations, companies, production groups etc that produce these items, make a profit from selling to foreign customers or stores, and the populations buy such items from them.

There is no poison here, people of all cultures like to be entertained, and they also appear to like the vast amount of different types of entertainment produced in the Federation.

Should you want to limit the influence these goods have, do not simply ban them, that will only make the supply illegal and mean the criminal elements in your own culture gain more revenue, while this is a sad fact of life, it is true.

Instead, invest in your own culture's entertainment industry. Provide your peers (or lessers depending on your point of view or social standing) with a form of entertainment that you personally find less invasive, or more complimentary to your own culture, if done right, you may even find that your people enjoy your particular brand of entertainment more than that which the diversity of the Federation produces.

The Federation's entertainment industry has had a long time to figure out what people enjoy, and has learned to follow these trends and changes within society, this knowledge doesn't simply end at the borders of the Federation, any corporation follows the profits, wherever they may lead.

Still, in the end, i suppose my point boils down to this:

There is no Federate 'Cultural War' going on, Those who produce the entertainment in the Federation simply see profit in making it available to the largest number of people possible. No one is forced to be entertained by it either, though many, from all the empires and beyond, are entertained by it. If they are also influenced in some way by it, that is not the intended purpose.


P.S.

The 'musician' mentioned in the OP... if she signed up to have someone else write the words to, and make the music for, her songs. :
A) she is not a musician, but a spokesperson for those writers
B) she went into that contract knowing exactly what she was doing.

in recent times Matari influences have become more popular in Federate culture, (no complaints here from me, they are a deeply spiritual people and likely have much that they can teach even an old bookworm like myself) and her particular style of updated tribal music is a product of this merger, created by her writers to make them money.
To state that it could be a form of cultural interference or worse, would be taking things a little too far.