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09-10-2010, 12:28 AM

I have to be honest with you, I don't think there are any conclusions to come to at this point. I haven't heard of any statistics that have to do with the "McDonalds model" and how it affects different societies.

If you talk about "Fast Food Culture", the best you could do is just provide examples of things like the KFC Christmas Chicken deal. There might be some other things like that in Japan... but none that I really know of. I can only imagine how many things like that exist around the world though. That sounds like an awful lot of research for an English paper.

"My professor said that there was a study where some sociologists sat in some McDonald's in China and observed how people acted near a McDonald's compared to as away from it, and also how they acted when they were in it."

This sounds cool in practice, and will probably give somewhat accurate resutls, but I think it's far from being a completely sound expiriment. I guess sociology is just one of those things, but obersvations alone might not capture the depth to which McDonalds affects societies. Obviously I don't know anything about the study, but like if they're gonna go to a restaraunt and compare how people act to how they would normally act, I'd hope they went to other restaraunts to provide a "control". Speaking personally, I get pretty anxious when I'm hungry, so I'll probably be a little more rude than usual. That will probably make me give off more non-verbal signals than just being in a place that is different from my home-culture would.

At any rate, is there a website that has the study that you are talking about on it?
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09-10-2010, 12:38 AM

No, he didn't it during class. I have that class tomorrow though. I'll ask him for if there is a website and I'll post if if there is. There is a sociologist named George Ritzer wrote a book called "The McDonaldization of Society" though.
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09-10-2010, 12:53 AM

I checked it out on Amazon... it looks like there's a new version (ver. 6). It has examples "from the digital world" which could very well be the wifi-access that I was talking about.

It sounds like a very interesting book. I might have to take a look at it. By the way, that might be just what you need for your essay. Have you read one of those books yet?
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09-10-2010, 12:57 AM

No I have not. I think I might if it will help out. I don't know if I want to but it though, so I'll probably just read it online somewhere. Books are really expensive.
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09-10-2010, 01:51 AM

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No I have not. I think I might if it will help out. I don't know if I want to but it though, so I'll probably just read it online somewhere. Books are really expensive.
Please don't talk about stealing things online. Books are really expensive because so many people steal them online. It's thanks to you the price goes up.
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09-10-2010, 01:56 AM

Oh ok sorry about that. It's just that I'm sure we all know that buying books for college is expensive, I just wasted 800$ this semester!! I was going to check at the school's library too though.
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09-10-2010, 02:12 AM

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I was in my geography class a few days ago and the professor started talking about how McDonald's affects the culture in countries . He gave an example of how when the first McDonald's in Russia was built, they had to have a person sitting out side telling the customers that employee's were not laughing at them but were happy to see them. Anyway, my question is, how do you think McDonald's has affected the cultural norms in the countries that they have been built? Is it sort of forcing American culture on other countries, and has it?
This is awfully sounds like Ramstein - Amerika. We don't eat McDonald's food and think "we must think that Amerika is great". It's just eating a fast food meal like Lotteria's.

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Please don't talk about stealing things online. Books are really expensive because so many people steal them online. It's thanks to you the price goes up.
Stop complaining. We have more piracy than never before and there is no way to bring the piracy rate down. You can complain this for the rest of your life.


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09-10-2010, 02:22 AM

Komitsuki, check out the wikipedia article on Lotterias.
Lotteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The word McDonalds is written there almost as much as the word Lotterias. Lotterias might not have been had McDonalds not existed.

"Stop complaining. We have more piracy than never before and there is no way to bring the piracy rate down. You can complain this for the rest of your life."

This just sounds ridiculous. I can kind of understand things by giant corporations... maybe, but we're talking about a book written by a college teacher.

And X2cool... I know what you mean. $30+ is a gamble on something that you're not entirely sure about. I've wasted a ton of money on books in my day. On the bright side, you could always check out some libraries in your area. If they don't have it, ask your teacher-- maybe he or she has it.

Although there is something very cool about digitalized books that I'm lookign forward to... ctrl F. I can only imagine how many hours of my life I could've saved if they had a ctrl F function on paper books. If only I was born in the late 90's!

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09-10-2010, 02:28 AM

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Komitsuki, check out the wikipedia article on Lotterias.
Lotteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The word McDonalds is written there almost as much as the word Lotterias. Lotterias might not have been had McDonalds not existed.
Are you sure about this? Lotteria uses a different brand marketing from McDonald's. I'm pretty sure that the whole concept of modern fast food restaurant isn't patented by some American corporate consortium.


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09-10-2010, 02:31 AM

Yeah, the library at my school has a lot of e-books, and you can get them from there. Although I'm not sure how that works since I haven't gotten any E-books from there yet. And I guess ctrl f would make skimming easier huh.
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