Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The creation of a global economy The creation of a global culture The concentration of power in a smaller number of hands and/or nations? The erasure of the borders that divide us?
McThailand
McJapan
McChina I
McChina II
McBeijing
McBali
McMoscow, Russia
McSaudi Arabia
McBahrain
McKhartoum (Sudan)
McVancouver
Opening the new Iraqi McDonalds (based on Joe Rosenthals photo of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima, 1945) -- a pro-Iraq War webpage
McOmar's! Casablanca's savvy response to global fast drivethroughs of McDonald's -- Professor Hsain Ilahiane, Iowa State University anthropologist (site)
Social satire highlighting one of the downsides of having a humanoid as part of your brand identity. -found on the web as part of an antiMcDonalds/antiglobalization site
i611.com/img/mcdonalds/mcdonalds_07.jpg
McMeasuring Globalization
Global Policy Forum uses the expansion of McDonalds to measure the degree of globalization Global Policy Forum, McDonalds Restaurants: Number by Region, 1991 & 1996 www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/charts/mcdon2.htm
Region
World Industrial Countries Developing Countries Sub-Saharan Africa Arab States East Asia South East Asia South Asia Latin America
1991
12,418 11,970 448 0 0 123 113 0 212
1996
21,022 19,198 1,824 17 69 489 409 3 837
Source: http://www.economist.com/media/audio/burgernomics.ram
Definitions of Globalization
"[T]he inexorable integration of The compression of the markets, nation-states, and world and the technologies to a degree never intensification of witnessed before -- in a way consciousness of the that is enabling individuals, world as a whole . . . . corporations and nation-states to concrete global reach around the world farther, interdependence and faster, deeper and cheaper than consciousness of the ever before . . . . the spread of global whole in the free-market capitalism to twentieth century. virtually every country in the world. R. Robertson, Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus Globalization (1992), p. 8. and the Olive Tree (1999), pp. 7-8.
Definitions of Globalization
"A social process in "The historical transformation constituted by the sum of particular which the constraints forms and instances of . . . . of geography on social [m]aking or being made global (i) and cultural by the active dissemination of arrangements recede practices, values, technology and and in which people other human products throughout become increasingly the globe (ii) when global practices and so on exercise an increasing aware that they are influence over people's lives (iii) receding. when the globe serves as a focus M. Waters, for, or a premise in shaping, human Globalization, (1995), activities. p. 3. M. Albrow, The Global Age
(1996), p. 88.
Definitions of Globalization
Integration on the "As experienced from below, the dominant form of globalization basis of a project means a historical transformation: pursuing market rule in the economy, of livelihoods and on a global scale. modes of existence; in politics, a P. McMichael, loss in the degree of control exercised locally . . . . and in Development and culture, a devaluation of a Social Change (2000), collectivity's achievements . . . . p. 149.
Globalization is emerging as a political response to the expansion of market power . . . . [It] is a domain of knowledge." J.H. Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome (2000), p. 6.