Subway fast food chain is a prime example of globalisation where the American originated store has impacted on a global scale. ... I strongly believe globalisation has contributed to destructing food related traditions in New Zealand such as home cooking, dining out at locally owned food stores and buying locally produced foods. ... The cultural change of food and the increase in availability and popularity of fast food due to globalisation is encouraging unhealthy and cheap food to become a bigger part of New Zealand's food industry, leading to negative impacts on people's health. A...

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India for example has had many problems with fast food chains setting up restaurants throughout their country. ... They come in and take food and farm land away from local farmers for grazing and feeding of cows (a sacred animal to the Hindu religion). This disrupts the cycle of food among the peasants who are too poor to indulge in fast food. The Indian culture is also in jeopardy, for food in an important part in In! ... By exposing Indians to this globalized food culture they have drawn Indians away from their own heritage to a more generic "popular" culture. ...

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It is obvious that the world is fast becoming a smaller place to live in due to the increased potential in communications. ... Due to our relative economic wealth we quickly integrate into the ways of fast food outlets and chasing logos. ...

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He's going to get used to eating new foods, such as hot dogs and hamburgers. He also will enjoy the food of the people through his spices, a new method of wide use. ... These improvements make the world a small place for the world as a world of interaction is fast and easy. ... In addition, it refers to a faster and more efficient transport of goods and services in the world. ...

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Thomas Freidman, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his writings on foreign policy, sums up globalization a little more clearer than I, when he states, "The inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before-in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever before the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world" (Friedman p. 7-8). ... This idea is exemplified by the spread of fast food industries i.e. ... Countries that have pr...

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Every day you hear it on the news, you read it in the papers, you overhear people talking about it and in every single situation the word globalization seems to have a different meaning. The word "globalization" is continually abused and presents a problem because its definition is multidimensiona...

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The Industrial Revolution accelerated the development of globalization and with the help of new machines or new transport carried the products further and faster. ... For example there are lots of international fast food companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut and we did not have to go America any longer to buy a Big Mac or when you go to the United States, you can visit China Town in San Francisco and buy traditional gifts for your friends from there. ...

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Globalization is a vast and dynamic process, which encompasses all aspects of our existence. Because of the vast nature of globalization it makes giving a neat definition difficult. Although globalization is a relatively new term in our eyes, it has been occurring throughout the world for the past 5...

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Cars are now invented to be safer, faster and more fuel economic and, therefore, inexpensive to run, environmentally friendly and cheaper to purchase. ... These cultural factors include aspects of language and sport, to movies and food among others. ...

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They oppose the production, use and global trade in toxic chemicals, nuclear materials and other products of which they do not approve, such as genetically modified foods, or endangered wildlife, including fish. ...

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There are many different modes of entering foreign markets; each method will have its strengths and weaknesses in general terms. However each single organisation will be more attracted to a type mode depending on their backgrounds, nature of the company, long term and short term aims. Often the grea...

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