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What is Globalization?

What is Globalization?. Professor Lavender, CUNY, 3/2/2005. What is Globalization?. The creation of a global economy? The creation of a global culture? The concentration of power in a smaller number of hands and/or nations? The erasure of the borders that divide us?.

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What is Globalization?

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  1. What is Globalization? Professor Lavender, CUNY, 3/2/2005

  2. What is Globalization? • The creation of a global economy? • The creation of a global culture? • The concentration of power in a smaller number of hands and/or nations? • The erasure of the borders that divide us?

  3. McDonald’s as a Case Study • As a major multinational corporation (MNC), McDonald’s operates 30,000 restaurants in 119 countries around the world. • McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every three hours – 2/3 are located outside the U.S.

  4. In any one day, McDonald’s… • …serves 35 million customers. • …opens 6 new restaurants outside the U.S. • …prepares more than 6.8 million pounds of french fries. • …employs nearly three million people worldwide.

  5. McDonald’s Goes Global • Local signage • Use familiar logos with local language • Adapt menu to cultural expectations of the local consumers

  6. McThailand

  7. McChina

  8. McBali

  9. McRussia

  10. McJapan

  11. McSudan

  12. McCanada

  13. McSaudi Arabia

  14. Starbucks in the Forbidden City, China

  15. Ronald McDonald’s Local Identity • Japan: Donald McDonald • Singapore: Uncle McDonald • France: Replaced by Asterix the Gaul

  16. McDonald’s Goes Global • Uruguay – “McHuevo”: hamburger topped with a poached egg. • Norway – “McLaks”: grilled salmon sandwich with dill sauce. • Germany – beer. • Israel – no cheeseburgers so kitchen stays kosher. • India – “Maharaja Mac”: Big Mac with all lamb patties. • Japan – Green Tea Shake • Thailand – Sweet Corn Pie • New Zealand – “Kiwiburger”: hamburger with a fried egg and slice of beet.

  17. McDonald’s as a Globalization Icon • Used by both advocates and opponents of globalization • Thomas Friedman’s “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention” • “No two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other.” (The Lexus and the Olive Tree)

  18. “Opening the new Iraqi McDonald’s” (based on Joe Rosenthal’s photo of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima, 1945) – a pro-Iraq War webpage

  19. “Coming Soon to a Crater Near You” – an anti-Iraq War webpage

  20. McMeasuring Globalization • Global Policy Forum uses the expansion of McDonald’s to measure the degree of globalization • Global Policy Forum, “McDonald’s Restaurants: Number by Region, 1991 & 1996”

  21. “Burgernomics” • Based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP) – a dollar should buy the same amount in all countries • Exchange rates between two countries should equalize prices of an identical good in each country (in this case, a Big Mac) • “The Big Mac Index” is the exchange rate that would mean Big Macs cost the same everywhere.

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