Why Are Some People Against Americanization Of The World?
Developing nations such as India and China have begun to open up foreign investment and invite powerful companies, most of which happen to be American, invest in their cultural and economical landscape. Youth in many countries have started to adopt an Americanized view of the world. They generally aren’t against such ‘imperialism’, but the older people are. This is also true in ‘Americanized’ nations like Britain, where some people resent the Americanization of their country.
Questions: why are some people against Americanization of the world? Do they want to live in poverty?
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Americanization has nothing to do with living in poverty. Its totally possible to have a modern civilized culture without Americanization. Look at countries like Japan and Germany for examples.
October 30, 2009 10:04 am | #1The problem with Americanization is the breakdown in morals and the norms of society. America teaches kids that its ok to be a gangster, that getting shot is cool because then i can be a famous rapper. It tells society that premarital sex is totally acceptable. It also teaches kids that violence, incompetence and laziness are rewarded.
America may be a rich and powerful country, but from a moral point of view, it is a terrible country to follow.
One of the salient feature of americanization is dumbness, specifically in understanding media tactics and international politics and no one wants that.
October 30, 2009 10:11 am | #2The principle of capitalism is understood as rich will be richer and poor will be more poorer due to accumulation of wealth. The Americanization eats away all the wealth that was generated by the locals in generations with certain dictated terms and norms of US. eg., Basmathi rice patent. being an Indian & Pakistani product, they never consider that and applied for a patent of US and they were able to get it. Also certain agricultural materials grown n Pakistani lands + local experts with the assistance of US scientists can’t be sold in Pakistan as these have patents.
October 30, 2009 10:54 am | #3At a certain time the US will utilise all Pakistani facilities and do whatever want to do and sell them to the locals at international prices and locals will compelled to buy it. It happened in Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brazil. The country was looted by US policies and the mighty Dollar trade.
Conservatives started understanding the clever US business tactics after the down fall of Japanese industries due to Out Sourcing tactics.
To safe-guard every ones national interests the tricky Americanization is not getting popular & confidence
People resent America, in fact many people see the country as a joke. As my sister was once told in a meeting (by an American company) what you have to remember is that 90% of the world is outside America.
October 30, 2009 11:49 am | #4You cannot take one country’s ideals and place them on another nation it doesn’t work. I doubt many people choose to live in poverty but they would like their culture and ideals taken into account.
What most people find a problem is how arrogant America is (your question and tone is a very good example of this). If we wanted to live in America we could just move there.
I wouldn’t call Britain an ‘Americanised’ nation. I would call America a dumping ground for religious fanatics that couldn’t hack the freedom Britain allowed. The first settlers moved to America because they couldn’t force Britain into a Puritan nation. Britain has been happily getting on with our civillised culture for many years without help from the Yanks.
WOW have you been living in a cave or something? America has one of the worst educational systems, horrible health standards, more dysfunctional and broken families than any other country in the world, the economy has just fallen through the floor to the point the govt. Has nationalized the banks, the currency is nearly worthless, the music, movies, and art are all driven by profit and not actual art. Recently America has been killing innocent civilians in Iraq in the name of the war on terrorism while we fund and supply Israel who has been linked to more terrorist attacks than any other group in the world. Americans have no concept of health, ballance, or peace.
October 30, 2009 12:08 pm | #5But what’s not to like right
do you honestly think that people WANT to live in poverty?
October 30, 2009 12:51 pm | #6i think it’s exactly that kind of approach that makes people resistant to what you are talking about
when you believe your way is the best and it applies to anyone in any situation without consideration for other factors it can be like putting a square peg in a round hole
people are people and we need to involve them to make positive change
otherwise it’s change that americans want, but the rest of the world doesn’t necessarily want
americans have a way of imposing themselves on situations & people
They don’t want to live in poverty. They want to be unique and have their own customs, traditions and cultures. The whole world doesn’t have to be American where everyone listens to Americans music, watches American movies, or wears American clothes. Humanity is all about appreciating Human diversity no matter how strange it seems to our eyes.
October 30, 2009 1:39 pm | #7Your ignorance is astonishing. Your Americanization has so far got us into a world wide economic slump which threatens to solidify into full blown global recession – brilliant move. And Britian is not Americanized. And huge amounts of people live in the US in abject poverty.
October 30, 2009 2:27 pm | #8So… you think before America started to imperialise, Britain was in poverty? Britain was industrialised long before America was.
October 30, 2009 3:11 pm | #9Americanisation has nothing to do with wealth, it is cultural.
A major barrier to other countries becoming rich is tradition. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it but those countries will live in poverty.
October 30, 2009 3:51 pm | #10As for UK, I can list many differences between them and the United States.
Don’t be ignorant. Why on earth would countries want to be ‘Americanized’? America is one country in a world full of them = each with their own culture. I for one don’t want to be ‘Americanized’, ever.
October 30, 2009 4:08 pm | #11Americanization is not about wealth and poverty. It’s about culture and attitude.
October 30, 2009 4:44 pm | #12Cause people just get stupid
October 30, 2009 5:06 pm | #13what has poverty to do with americanization????
What money are you sending me? Americanisation is as welcome as a hole in the head.
October 30, 2009 5:26 pm | #14Your ‘culture’ isn’t the only that isn’t living in poverty. Other cultures have a lot to offer.
October 30, 2009 6:06 pm | #15because they don’t like america??/
October 30, 2009 7:05 pm | #16it is because everyone hates americans and you know why coz they are bullies.
October 30, 2009 7:56 pm | #17I think it’s because there is something really wrong with it.
October 30, 2009 8:17 pm | #18Just count how many countries harmed and used by US and its Allied.
October 30, 2009 9:12 pm | #19Americanisation is a global “DUMMIES GUIDE TO MENTAL SLAVERY: How To Dumb Down Your Society” for the leaders of all other countries in the world with few exceptions. It is a global blue print which shows how to DUMB DOWN SOCIETIES. period. End of argument…
October 30, 2009 9:39 pm | #20Americanisation or Westernisation is called Globalisation. It has nothing to do with culture. Don’t get side tracked into thinking it’s all about culture out there. Like junk food, junk culture (Britney Spears etc) it’s often shoved into peoples’ faces whether they like it or not.
Some people will live in poverty regardless of globalisation. Many more will live in poverty BECAUSE of globalisation. Globalisation is the coming together of corporations and industry. Think MTV India, CNN International for the media arm…Shell, Mircrosoft, Wal-Mart on another arm… It has nothing to do with benefiting or uniting people. What about the poor people in Africa? We should help them right? I mean, Bono surely can’t be wrong?
Here’s how the scam of Americanisation/Globalisation works, The IMF issues a loan to Nigeria. Most of the loan goes to foreign corporations who build them an airport or a pipeline or a mine. The little that gets siphoned off goes to the elites of that country as a reward for the contract. Nothing goes to the people except for maybe an AIDS clinic that the BBC runs on World 24 as some master stroke of western influence.
Most of the world is run by a self-elected elite (we are catching up) who govern from well defended places. THEY (and a handful of computer geeks in India) are the people benefiting from globalisation. In SE Asia where I live, people have to pay a bribe to get a job at a Ralph Lauren factory. The factory’s owner pays them $1.80 a day. Ralph Lauren is the clear winner in that trade off when they sell a single shirt for US$100. The man who runs the province (governor) receives enormous amounts of money by R.L. (in bribes and taxes) because he keeps the media away and keeps the black market in the same clothes to a minimum. He rolls around his villate in a brand new Mercedes and lives in a palatial house overlooking the ‘plantation’. The Prime Minister of the country benefits because he has created a safe place for all the other to follow. ADIDAS, BENNETON, THE GAP, give the country 100s of millions in tax revenue. A million is a lot of money to us. It is an unimaginable amount of money to someone out here in the 3rd world where $5000 can get you a house. The rich kids in the city see the clothes on MTV, they eat at McDonald’s because that’s what they think rich western people do….it’s monkey see monkey do. The kids in the city get dumber and more concerned about their looks; the kids in the country move to the city. Starbucks or ConAgra come to buy their family’s farm for peanuts and has to live with the kids in the city. The people in power sit back smiling and turn to the next chapter. Americanisation is really a blue print for the 3rd world in how to dumb down their societies. I spent years trying to defend globalisation, but now after seeing it in my face these last years. I was wrong.
Nations that resist globalisation get ostracised or invaded so there is a good incentive for them to sign up if they are sitting on the fence. The emperor has merely changed clothes.