Cultural Imperialism and the Homogenization of the Western World

Neapolitan · 03-15-2010, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

I guess I'm confused and just wondered out lout what Neapolitan is trying to debate.

I didn't mean the thread to be about whether or not this is happening, because it is - at least from our point of view across the pond. My country's culture is changing and the majority of our new cultural input comes from the anglosphere, for example hip hop and fast food chains. The reason I addressed people from other countries in my first post was not really to exclude you anglospherilians, but rather to get some input on how things are changing elsewhere - if this goes on in other nations and if so, how.

I could care less about either, and see America more then fast food and hip hop. All the issues you brought up, the mass media, hip hop and fast food chains, that change in culture is happening in America too, basically before it happened to Norway it happen to US first. Maybe there are tons of Americans who eat fast foods everyday, and maybe that's considered American culture by non-Americans, but that doesn't mean every American does it. I'm guessing what you see coming from America you take at face value, but there is another side too. Not every American is into hip hop culture and not every American is into fast food. I don't see it so much as cultural imperialism from average Americans but from big corporations, it's more about Globalization and flat world economics.