Americanization : Economic penetration or cultural threat ?Essay Preview: The economic penetration by multinational corporations shapes and distorts cultural patterns in developing countries. The "Westernization, particularly the Americanization, of cultu
...erous because it give the advance to the developed countries to be the leader in the world while the other developing countries will be the followed and the consumed for what the leaders imply, which will enforce the rules and the culture of the stronger to be prevailed, and that what happened in South Korea which was really face a serious economic situation in 1970, and which was the from the first countries which enrolled in the new economic system when it adapt the American economic system. Although South Korea achieved a giant leap in the economy but unfortunately it lost its private culture and it is losing step by step the authority because it will be controlled by the USA economic system which will guide it where their benefits are. We can see in Korea the American restaurant more than the popular restaurants, and we can see the American engineering system more than any other system. This uncontrolled following will effect certainly on all the po...