Americanized
...ican restaurant anymore, it’s a global restaurant. According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, “globalization” can be defined as “growth to a global or worldwide scale”. McDonalds is a great example of a corporation that has increased its influence around the world. In Beijing for example McDonalds now symbolizes “Americana and the promise of modernization” (Schlosser, 529). Within ten years, McDonalds went from being hated in Tahiti, to being welcomed in Tahiti. This company has gained so much popularity by targeting its advertisements to young children, whom help to convince their Page#2 parents that “Simply eating at a McDonald’s in Beijing seems to elevate a person’s social status” (Schlosser, 530). In fact Den Fujita has promised Japanese who eat at McDonald’s will eventually look the same one day. Over the years McDonald’s gained so much power with their identity by their company name, it’s now to the point where they could possibly open up an establishments on any part of the globe. McDonald’s gained so much popularity in Germany that they decided to open up a McDonald’s. The McDonald’s happened to be built so close to a concentration camp where thousands of people died in the holocaust. Many people begin to complain about the McDonald’s being so close to the concentration camp. Therefore the people of Germany wanted the McDonald’s Corporation to close the McDonald’s that was built so close to the concentration camps. Schlosser asserts “The McDonald’s Corporation denied that it was trying to profit from the Holocaust and said the restaurant was at least a mile from the camp” (Schlosser, 532). Which I believe is a lie by the McDonald’s Corporation, because the company knew that they would make money if the...