Global culture Flashcards
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‘Americanisation’
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Global culture often exemplified by consumer icons such as Coca-cola and McDonald’s. McDonald’s serves about 50 million people everyday. This powerful force of cultural globalisation from the States is referred to as ‘Americanisation’.
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Dominance of the USA
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The dominance of the USA as an unrivalled superpower since the 90s has led some people to identify a global culture, but some characteristics are commonly linked to it:
Culture of consumerism
Culture of capitalism.
English as the dominant language.
Cherry picks parts of other cultures and absorbs them
