Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gringo, Walmart, Big-Box Store
6 Feb 2018
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Never knew that korea had a culture, before gangnam style we just thought of them in terms of products. The idea was to show the idea that korea exists as an entity that we may want to go and visit: gagman means posh and stylish as beverly hills is. You (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t get (cid:271)ig (cid:272)it(cid:455) s(cid:455)(cid:374)dro(cid:373)e si(cid:374)(cid:272)e, pla(cid:272)es like nyc k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:455)ou are (cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g back, but this is all new for them. This is similar to when we discovered japanese culture through lost in. Most is urbanized and so the idea of a world city is here. We travel and travel and between different people things get lost in translation. This happens through age and language and life stages. Sometimes we have to go halfway around the world to find what is lost. No such thing as bad publicity because bad publicity is better than no publicity. They believe in karma and so they are tremendously accommodating.
