Americanization As A Positive Trend
Americanization as a Positive Trend
Chan Park
April 03, 2008
HO# 2003399
Critics and people in general describe the word Americanization as the wide spread influence of the United States of America’s culture into other countries; influences that merge and/or affect other countries traditions and their people’s lives and behaviors. While the entire world is being globalized, the American culture has and is taking an important roll in this process. Americanization helps to bring peace all over the world and benefits, such as the advantage of American culture being the global culture. But how, you may ask, is this a positive side effect?
Americanization began after the First World War, when countries in an unstable economic situation opened their doors for the United States. In the present, American brands are taking seven places out of ten of the most popular global brands (The top 100 brands…). The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA),an index of the stock markets in the U.S, shows that, if the American stock markers, such as the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) falls down, all the stock markets in the world also falls down (Business: The Economy…). This demonstrates that the U.S has a strong global economic influence.
The consequences and how long Americanization will last is not predictable. However, the United States is the most powerful and influential country in a world led mostly by money. And because money is the common factor that controls every aspect of people’s life, it is clear that the United States is playing a central role by creating and unifying this world through the elimination of global economic, social and political fractional differences.
Americanization promotes peace by easing resentment of potentially violent countries against the American culture. Take for instance, North Korea. Hostility between the United States and North Korean remains until the present, largely a product of Cold
Chan Park
April 03, 2008
HO# 2003399
Critics and people in general describe the word Americanization as the wide spread influence of the United States of America’s culture into other countries; influences that merge and/or affect other countries traditions and their people’s lives and behaviors. While the entire world is being globalized, the American culture has and is taking an important roll in this process. Americanization helps to bring peace all over the world and benefits, such as the advantage of American culture being the global culture. But how, you may ask, is this a positive side effect?
Americanization began after the First World War, when countries in an unstable economic situation opened their doors for the United States. In the present, American brands are taking seven places out of ten of the most popular global brands (The top 100 brands…). The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA),an index of the stock markets in the U.S, shows that, if the American stock markers, such as the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) falls down, all the stock markets in the world also falls down (Business: The Economy…). This demonstrates that the U.S has a strong global economic influence.
The consequences and how long Americanization will last is not predictable. However, the United States is the most powerful and influential country in a world led mostly by money. And because money is the common factor that controls every aspect of people’s life, it is clear that the United States is playing a central role by creating and unifying this world through the elimination of global economic, social and political fractional differences.
Americanization promotes peace by easing resentment of potentially violent countries against the American culture. Take for instance, North Korea. Hostility between the United States and North Korean remains until the present, largely a product of Cold