Superpowers cultural influence
- Created by: Amy Brown
- Created on: 10-06-14 21:03
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- Superpowers cultural influence
- Global culture has been seen as a way to spread a superpowers influence
- The USA is seen as the most powerful force in cultural globalisation
- Case Study: McDonaldisation
- Opened in Des Plaines in 1955 with a profit for the 1st day at $366.12 and has grown to have $41 billion in sales
- Adopting to different cultures
- Portugal - only country where soup is served
- Pakistan - McArabia and the spicy chicken burger
- Saudi Arabia- no pork products sold as against Islamic law. All meat is halal
- China- all drinks were in china cups
- Problems
- Encourages developing nations to export their crops when most children are undernourished
- Use lethal poisons to destroy vast areas of the Central American rainforest to create grazing pastures for cattle
- Workers in catering do not have a specific union so little help with disputes
- Forcing indigenous tribes from their native lands
- McDonalds have also donated over $180 million to McDonald's children charities and claim to donate more than $50 million each year
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