GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Celebrity Culture, Cultural Imperialism, Global Brain
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Disneyland secular family pilgrimage comparable to the haj it"s a small world ater all . Abundance of cars, houses, sexual partners, and consumpion is what deines the west to the rest of the world because that is what they see. The news we see and who decides what news we see. Creaion of huge media/culture conglomerates: disney, news corp. Bollywood makes more movies a year than hollywood. In world sports, what about secondary role of us, notably in soccer. 1830-1930, rise of modern global consciousness, accompanying global trade to 1910. Toward a global standard: global ime (gmt), gregorian calendar, olympic gams, an internaional architecture, league of naions. Compare pre-modern cultural complexity: language, religion; e. g. paciic northwest naive languages, celic languages in western europe (anglicisaion: cwm-yr-goed --. At the ime of early european contact, over 30 language groups of paciic northwest naive languages. Big macs in moscow: standardised but not idenical; the complicaion of cultural recepion; consumers are acive agents.
