With Hollywood going totally insane, producing more and more movies that are sexually explicit, vulgar, violent, in bad taste, and downright filthy, how will cultures of indigenous peoples in underdevloped countries withstand the assault on their senses?

It seems that every other month a group releases a survey or report about how western cultures are assaulting the cultures of peoples of color and peoples in developing countries.

The latest such report is the 262-page Human Development Report from the UN Development Program. It says that cultures of poor countries are under seige by an invasion of western ideas due to global economic integration.

"Globalization opens people’s lives to culture and to all its creativity—and the flow of ideas and knowledge," the report says. "But the new culture carried by expanding global markets is disquieting because today’s flow of culture is unbalanced, heavily weighted in one direction, from rich countries to poor."

In one sense opening the markets can benefit developing countries, providing avenues for export of their cultural goods which have always been in demand in developed countries—tourists trotting home with exotic artifacts from some far-off jungle or native village.

But more and more today, large investors are seizing the markets in these poor countries and exporting the cultural goods while making the producers of the artifacts virtual slave laborers in their own countries while the investors reap huge benefits from the goods.

The major danger, however, is the influx of images from U.S. movies and television shows. The report says that the largest export industry for the United States is entertainment.

CNN and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) have infiltrated most developing nations, at times beaming images into these countries 24-hours a day.

If most of these images were of any redeeming value, it wouldn’t be so bad. But much of what Hollywood is producing today are geared toward deadening the senses of the viewers to sex and violence. The result is that oftimes there is an increase in the activities which these images suggest.

Why would a young boy in an African village aspire to be a gansta’ rapper? Because he has been introduced to that concept through this cultural invasion from the west.