Word: mcdonald
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...king and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson, an Iowan born and an anthropologist by trade, is known for his lecture in Anthropology 105: "Food and Culture." He recently sat down to share his thoughts on McDonald'sTM, China and Seinfeld, and provide a little food for thought...
...true you are a McDonald's expert...
...sure I'm expert, but I've published abook (Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia,Stanford University Press, 1997). It's aboutMcDonald's in East Asia: Hong Kong, Beijing,Seoul, Tokyo. It deals with the impact of thistransnational corporation; the book is reallyabout globalism. Globalism is everywhere, but veryfew people know how to deal with it. This is anattempt to look at what might be called atransnational system to see how it's treatedlocally. You see how McDonald's has changed theculture or more likely, how it's changedMcDonald's has changed dramatically...
...actually like McDonald...
...just love that, but I don't eat it veryoften. There's only two time when I eat fast food:when I travel in this country and when I do fieldwork in Hong Kong, because the reason I got intoMcDonald's is because the families that I know goto McDonald's because that's where the kids wantto go. The kids--I'm talking about little kidsabout four to 12, control the family and tell thefamily where they want to go. So I go with myfamily friends and we end up at McDonald's. I eata lot of fast foods...