9/10/13; Goblization

Today's class was a little different from other classes. Normally we talk about a few topics that have the same theme, but today we specifically talked about globalization. But globalization has a lot of themes along with itself. Globalization is in the world around us and we don’t even know it. Most of globalization is because of American products and designs, and our expansion of them. Our main example in class was the effects McDonalds has on Japan. Now normally you would think, “Oh nothing will change, it’s just fast food.” But after discussing it in class, a lot more than you would think, changed in Japan. Because globalization has to do with American’s more than any other country, some people call it “Americanization”. The main example was the fact that every country in the world, besides North Korea, has something that generated in America. The top three food chains around the world are McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and Burger King. The main and only topic today was globalization.