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Re: US EMpire Better than Alternative - Huh?
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- Subject: Re: US EMpire Better than Alternative - Huh?
- From: raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:56:06 -0800
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On Jan 11, 2008 3:32 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Peter Hollings wrote:
>
> > Globalization
> > and empire are forces that favor monoculture
>
> Do they really? What music does MTV China play? I see a lot of
> hybridization going on, which makes cultural purists of left and
> right nervous.
>
Fools like Thomas Friedman exaggerate this phenomenon a lot, but I
think that there really is a trend towards cultural homogeneity. More
specifically media and popular culture are becoming more and more
Americanized - in India at least. MTV India may not play all of the
same videos and shows as MTV US, but the format is very similar.
-raghu.
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- Re: US EMpire Better than Alternative - Huh?, (continued)
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