Fast food for example, explains American pop culture. Fast food supports, develops, and reflects this fast lifestyle. Like fast food, the consumers are fast, on the run, and have no time to sit back and enjoy things. ... This is why fast food companies direct their ads to the male audience. ... There are a countless number of fast food restaurants in America, representing the fast-paced lifestyle of American pop culture. ...
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. ...
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. ...
Acquainting with the people, the fast food, feeling restrained when I ate, and driving on the right side instead of the left, were part of the modifications. ... She adapted to his way of eating food, the use their right hand to pick up the food. ... Foods like lentils, or beans, rice, vegetables, something called Roti and Naan but not much people eating meat. ... He saw how people waste food and take things for granted. "You know how many poor people can be fed with the food they let go to waste? ...
This tradition is very common and a strong tradition we still hold fast to within our Māoritanga (Māori Culture). ... New Zealand is great place of growing and harvesting crops of all types of foods and fruits. ... One thing I love about my culture is the food I was brought up on. ... A traditional method of cooking food is very common till this day. ... We are fortunate enough to come from a land that inhibits natural resources of spring water, native animals and forests, and fresh food. ...
I was born into a Muslim family and as a result continued to practice whatever my parents taught me, whether it was to fast during the holy month of Ramadan or to recite the Arabic verses of the Quran out loud. ... It was easy for me to practice my faith there and blend in with the crowd, because fasting and praying were a norm. ... I had to face little difficulty while fasting in the month of Ramadan when people would openly consume food and drink, then offer me some. To break our fast we have to eat something at sunset but if I am at work or I am at school then I have to wait for my break t...
Dirk talks about food and the fact that what we eat is culturally instilled in us by those who raise us and by the society we live in. ... Well, that depends on where and when you grew up." (37) Dirk talks about how the food that you like has to deal with the food that your family, and even your society finds appropriate. ... There are other friends I have who were raised with totally ethnic foods, who would never go to Mcdonald's for a hamburger. ... When looking at both sides of my family I can see the learned aspects of culture when dealing with food. ... "In almost all societies, th...
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...
It's clothing, it's food, it's sexual practices, it's music; all of these things are dictated to us by our elders, who have been dictated to in turn by their elders, ad infinitum. ... We have developed faster, taken an evolutionary highway to our current state of existence. ... The group spends its days foraging for food and caring for the young. ... Whether it is the way in which we wear our clothes, the way we acquire food or the way we breed everything taught to us in a benign and yet incredibly powerful manner. ...
If we want to look at the world countries from a neutral view, we can easily reach the following opinion: "The powerful countries are becoming more powerful, the third world countries are becoming poorer in term of their economical situation."" If we search for the reasons of this gap between rich ...
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...
The waiters dressed in long robes called djellaba and pointed slippers called babouche serve a fine Moroccan meal which is nothing more than American food with a twisted Arabian name. ... At the end of this are a variety of American styled Chinese restaurants that are somewhat insulting to Asians as it makes a really bad attempt to imitate some of their local foods and exploit their heritage. "The Lotus Blossom Café and the Nine Dragons Restaurant serve tourist versions of the food of China. ...
People can enjoy eating different types of cultural foods, for example Chinese foods, and learn different kind of perspectives from other people. ... For example, I see an Asian guy and assume that he is good at math or a black guy and assume that he can run really fast. ...
Around the globe there is a general push by all countries, developed and developing to attract as many tourists as possible because the tourism industry is viewed as a major source of foreign earnings which are supposed to boost the economies of receiving countries, particularly developing countries that perceive tourism as a fast way to rapid development. ... Dating back from colonialism, with the help of tourism as one of their mechanisms, they have directly or indirectly been imposing their cultural products (music, food, movies, dances, clothing and technology) as well as their values such...
