This awesome graph shows Starbucks by country, along with coffee bean, paper cup, and sugar sources. To the right, it shows the McDonald's stores, but, oddly enough, no sources.That's because every McDonald's hamburger patty in produced in some two-bit factory in New Jersey.
Let's here your opinion on this. I personally think it's strange that an aspect of foreign culture, coffee, has been so absorbed into American" society and yet Starbucks' "blend of the week" is hardly tasted anywhere else in the world. I also find it strange that we're so quick to impress our culture and our food onto the world. McDonald's: One world, under the golden arches, promoting heart disease and childhood obesity for all.
God bless America.
To see a bigger version, head here- http://consumerist.com/assets/resources/2006/08/starbucksdonalds.php
These questions are very hard to give succinct, comprehensible, supported answers to. After all, the process by which multi-billion dollar international companies affect culture globally can hardly be considered a simple one. Personally, and simplistically, I attribute much of it to America's extreme consumerism and overall cultural mindset.
ReplyDeleteThis is quite the eye opener. America's extreme consumerism is pretty apparent in this one. Its funny to me how some people can still wonder why the obesity rate is so high in America. This graph is pretty clear evidence as to why that is. I agree with Austin, it is the mindset of the American people.
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