{"id":10147,"date":"2009-06-26T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2012-10-19T01:53:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T06:53:32","slug":"the-global-distribution-of-starbucks-and-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/26\/the-global-distribution-of-starbucks-and-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Distribution Of Starbucks And McDonalds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toban B. sent us a link to these two images illustrating the global spread of Starbucks and McDonalds (put together by Princeton<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/strong> <\/span>Toban offered these great insights in the comment thread:<\/p>\n

When I sent this in, I was looking at the images as indicators of who is and isn\u2019t part of certain aspects of \u2018globalization.\u2019<\/p>\n

While there has been increased homogenization, some people also have exaggerated the extent to which we all are part of One world (which some people call a \u201cglobal village\u201d \u2014 a term that I find downright ridiculous, to be frank.) I think that people talk like the world is all One because they are ignoring most of the world \u2014 i.e. the spots on the above maps that don\u2019t have many coloured dots on them. Obviously the \u2018North\u2019 \u2018Western\u2019 areas also are very different in some respects (e.g. linguistically), but there\u2019s more consistency in those areas of the world in terms of McDonaldization, digitization, and other features of the \u2018North\u2019 \u2018Western\u2019 ends of \u2018globalization\u2019 \u2014 that is, the sides of \u2018globalization\u2019 that people tend to highlight (whereas people don\u2019t pay much attention to international waste trade dumping grounds, for instance).<\/p>\n

If the world is all One, it is One in a way that entails different positions (e.g. as producers vs. consumers), and a lot of inequality (e.g. in terms of where the money is). If (for instance) Columbia is part of some sort of globalization, the place of Latin America is a lot different from France (for instance).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toban B. sent us a link to these two images illustrating the global spread of Starbucks and McDonalds (put together by Princeton): UPDATE: Toban offered these great insights in the comment thread: When I sent this in, I was looking at the images as indicators of who is and isn\u2019t part of certain aspects of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,2124,64,260],"class_list":["post-10147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-foodagriculture","tag-globalization","tag-international-comparisons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10384,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}