Without The Castle to protect her, Cate Blanchett is far more exposed when it comes to Australia's ongoing cultural wars.

BBC: The great 'Cate Debate'

He has long fought brilliantly as a field general in America's cultural wars, from hisDartmouth Reviewdays in the 1980s to his prescient early 1990s critiques of affirmative action.

FORBES: Digital Rules

In this new battleground in the cultural wars of the Muslim world, a distant mirror of the religious wars that shook Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, Malian musicians are taking a stand.

CNN: Mali's conflict turns musicians into military

Likewise, during the wars that ravaged the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1999, cultural emblems were deliberately targeted.

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You may or may not recall back in January when there was a flurry of stories about the Turkish Cultural Community of Austria and their complaints about a Lego kit based on Star Wars.

FORBES: Time To Admit I Was Wrong About Lego And Jabba The Mosque From Star Wars

As they go through basic training or flight school (once again it's the flyboys, and girls, vs. the grunts on the ground) and then into combat, "Starship Troopers" also revisits Hollywood clichis of every war that's ever been fought on the silver screen--including "Star Wars, " which, for these ahistoric recruits, is but a dim cultural memory.

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