That name change, silly as it was, bared a long-simmering cultural antagonism between imperial (American) machismo and a more feminine (French) Epicureanism, and ratcheted it up a notch.

The religious, cultural, and political antagonism between Canadian Protestants and Catholics remains a central theme of Canadian history.

American influences such as jazz can be found in the development of the island's unique musical style, but there is also evidence of cultural antagonism, particularly in areas such as literature.

"I have rid the works of any obvious cultural antagonism," the artist said in a statement, "instead placing emphasis on the ambiguity that is found in their simple strength."

Why the massive cultural antagonism?

It would seem to be a candidate for the kind of cultural antagonisms and anti-immigrant politics that have occurred elsewhere in Britain and in Europe.

The inegalitarian Ottoman millet system had turned the Bulgarians and other Christian subjects into second-class citizens, and the religious differences had created insurmountable cultural antagonism.

This is not a question of cultural antagonism.

Determinedly optimistic, the movie fantasizes a giddier, sweeter world where cultural antagonisms melt at the drop of a beat.

But these new private-sector ties must be threaded through a matrix of competing property claims, political and cultural antagonisms, differing legal systems and unabating security pressures.