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A 9 page paper which examines the relationship between globalization and the loss of culture as depicted in these texts. No additional sources are used.
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communications, the world has become a much smaller place. The result has been referred to as globalization, which is simply a fancy word for capitalism with a capital "C."
Capital - in the form of goods, services, money, and personnel - is being freely exchanged throughout the world, with territorial boundaries appearing to dissolve in the name of
prosperity. Instead of nations serving up individual economic pies for themselves, countries are coming together through business transactions and sharing pieces of the same pie. What was once
a diverse multicultural world landscape has now become a single capitalist entity, with countries dependent upon each other for income, trade, and products. If one country flounders, there is
a domino effect and all global nations are adversely affected. Therefore, globalization, despite appearing to be a "win/win" proposition has serious repercussions that warrant consideration. In order to
reap international economic benefits, many historians and anthropologists believe nations have sold out their cultures. Thomas L. Friedman examined globalization and its consequences from all angles in his voluminous
book, Lexus and the Olive Tree. In contrast, Eric Schlosser concentrated his inquiry on only a single byproduct of globalization, the fast food industry, in his text, Fast Food
Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. According to Thomas L. Friedman, globalization resembles a large assembly line that relies on efficiency in order to keep going. It
is fueled by free market capitalism, in which the market rather than political ideology reigns supreme. Friedman (1999) contends that the globalization of free market capitalism has its own
set of economic rules - rules that revolve around opening, deregulating, and privatizing your economy" (p. 8). The United States has become synonymous with free market capitalism, and multinational
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