Cultural diffusion: the process:
We are living in a diverse society where every countries are 'globalized' where there is fusion of different cultures especially cuisine and dress. People tends to find more comfortable 'culture 'for them after globalization. For instance, people don't usually wear their traditional clothes, but mostly wear simple looks like T-shirts and jeans for the comfort. Also, most people tends to enjoy fast foods which is a delicious simple meal with complete nutrience. In fact, fast food stores like McDonald is became very famous where the world came to the state to count the number of McDonald chains to determine how globalized the country is.
People's cultural traits also changes through tourists and oversea workers. When tourists travel to different places, they tends to learn the different cultures, come back to their country, and spread the cultures where there is diffusion of different cultures. For instance, Republic of Korea and China has similar culinary cultures since there were many connections between these two countries. Not only tourists, but oversea workers also have roles to diffuse the cultures. Most of the oversea workers comes from LEDC to work for MEDC. So modified and developed cultures of MEDCs are often diffused to LEDCs.
There was a very good point made in your writing about Chinese and Korean culinary cultures being similar. I enjoyed reading and thinking about that. The prompt however, was asking you to choose a specific trans-national corporation. Can you think of a company that exploiting that cultural similarity to turn a profit?
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