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Originally Posted by x2cool
Well, for example, say McDonalds opened up in a country that has been able to maintain its own culture that has lasted for hundreds of years. If a McDonald's is built there, wont other companies start to come in and build their buildings, won't this affect the architecture, if people there like McDonald's and how the restaurant is like, won't they start saying, "Hey, how come the other restaurant's are not like this?" Won't this force business owners in the area to change? And since McDonald's was started in America, I only assumed that maybe there are some American elements in "McDonald's".
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I'm no businessman, but doesn't McDonald's have to have permission to expand into a country before anything? They have no obvious political power, and I would assume they couldn't just invade a random country without some form of consent from that country's goverment.
It's probably true, the style of the restaurant or food, if never before seen by the people, would have an impact on people's impression of restaraunts. But that seems like an issue of willingness. Referring back to the first point: If it was determined that being open to the new concept was detrimental to society, they probably wouldn't have allowed it. Otherwise, I can hardly consider having new influences a bad thing...
unless, possibly, I were communist?