GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Welsh People, Ethnic Nationalism, Consumerism
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Where would we look for it: ie disneyland. For families, going to disney is a rite of passage. Its economy"s scale makes it accessible to a mass market. Harvey"s space time compression (the conversion of space and time to make the world smaller) Tokyo: all these places use the same tactics to make money, this shows the commercialization of culture. Commodiication of culture (when culture becomes a commodity) Values, meanings, habits that we live by (all describe culture) are turned into a commodity: culture imperialism, or just global culture. There is a dissemination of western and american values given to the rest of the world. American television and movies are popular everywhere. In europe, 80% of their movie/television is american. Fta one of the sticking points of canadians was canadian media: in a totally free market, american media would take over, so canada wanted their own pop culture or else they felt like they didn"t have a culture.
