Book censorship proved to have a strong influence in Portuguese cultural evolution, serving to keep the country in ignorance and cultural backwardness.

Characteristics of "cultural backwardness"

He contributed bitingly sarcastic articles on what he saw as the cultural backwardness and naivety of his compatriots.

Mostly, though, people just talk: about the cultural backwardness of Russia, the shape of history, the nature of reality.

However, little mention of politics, rather sarcastically condemned civilization, cultural and economic backwardness of the Polish People's Republic.

During the years following the Civil War, Knoxville gained a reputation for cultural backwardness that many of the city's residents found embarrassing.

As one of few blacks admitted to the University of the Witwatersrand, he recalls being taunted by white students about his cultural backwardness.

And while snickering at country, white America also demonstrated a similar cultural backwardness toward black music, be it gospel, ragtime or the blues.

Then everyone will recognize their retreat, cultural backwardness, division and inability to deal with one another on the one hand, and with the world on the other.

Criminalisation of homosexuality during this time was exclusive to nations of the Soviet Union associated with "cultural backwardness."