Signs of " Globalization"

Here is my list of the indicators to the level of effect of the process of "Globalization:... in various regions of the world ...for when the question of of the level of globalization occurs..

I will approximately define Globalization as :

Globalization :
The level of integration of

a)modern and popular machinery/ technology from the Western spheres ( mostly america and to lesser Extent Europe )... a
and
b) a level of western( american and european)... method of thought and perspective towards the core aspects of culture via machinery/technology

into the other regions of the world that are otherwise lesser in the quantity and concentration of the above elements ( a and b ). The other regions would be .. most of europe , Africa , All arabic countries, All Muslim Countries, India, China, Korea, Japan, and those smaller countries neighboring these )


Indicators / Signss ( in cities )


1) There is an Authentic Indian Restaurant operated by Indians with Indian cooks that is also renowned and popular throughout the city.

2) There is a competeing Indian restaurant owned by Bangladeshi/Pakistani/SriLankan/Nepali people also adevertising Indian food that tastes good but tastes noticeable different

3) All Rebelious children idolize the current American Rap Superstar...as their role models in life

4) All those outside the rap targer audience also know...the names and albums of some rappers..

5) People with no savings and working menial jobs have Facebook Accounts

6) The state of the art cutting edge Public computer access facilities for those who cannot afford computers...are full of people chatting on MSN messenger .

7 ) Marijuana/ Hashish is as easiesr to access( purchase and use ) than bottled water or diet coke cola.

8 ) There are some poor and English Illiterate Indians and/or Chinese people working harder than any other community through difficult menial jobs.

9 ) The forward univeristy educated elite minority class go to Mcdonalds expecting the finest cuisine America can make while purposely wearing expensive clothes that most of the population can not afford all as a fashion statement..

10) Europeans come to live there becuase it is cheaper than living in Europe.. and think that the local populatiion are nice people

11) There is a higher rate of abortion ... why?
a) higher access and encouragement to use condoms increases the level of "activity" in the community resulting.. in higher preganacy results... where the majority of the cases can not accomodate the pregancy and must inevitable chose abortion.
b) greater political and cultural allowance for abortion.

12) The higher access to American pornograpgy on the internet reduces the demand for the local "sleeze" industry..

13) People from cold weathered northen Europe adults are buying guest houses there... and are living there 6 months out of the year.

14) Boys have to time share their attention to Euro football.. and American NBA Basketball coverage available on the internet.

15.) Many young girls secretly marry or run off with European/American tourist men as a means of escaping family directed traditional culture..

Golden Girls...?

Over the last 10 plus years in American pop culture and media.... there has been increasingly more " african american" faces...among both sexes...

Many of those personalities that represent american culture to the rest of the world are now african american...

These names include the likes of .... Beyonce , Halle Berry, Mariah Carey.

Whether in films, music, or television.. for a girl to become a banner name... it is "sex appeal" alone that makes this possible.

The token position for black person in the pop culture that was readily available in the 1980s and down ... has now in the 2ks extended countless number...

Infact the number is so high now.. that it would be wrong to call the place for blacks in pop culture as a token...

Infact , both the domestic and international market for american pop has a stong demand for " african american appeal"

For girls in the limelight.. appeal invariably must mean...what is referred to as " sex appeal" .... ( an apparently legitimate term that the syntax and semantic meaning of )

So African American girls are now a definative part of american pop culture... no longer hoping for a token spot in the business.. the Blakc starlets have aims of taking the top spots in the whole buisness to the point that the

But if you look closely at the types I mentioned above ... (mariah, halle berry , adn beyonce.).. despite being classified as african american.... you ponder the question of whether they are infact african component of their african american status...

Meaning when u look at these poster girls... does africa really come to mind?

And who is it that they really represent ?

The 15% of impoverished Black people in America..

All of the 3 imentioned.. ( and all the others i didnt mention ye t) take a funny path to fame and fortune..

First they have to impress the black audience ... to enter the stage of showbiz..

then from... there..

the have to win the majority white audience to have the superstardom they all enjoy today...

The critical trait for a potential starlet is not being either african/black or american/white... but something distincly in between....

This something is blacker than white people... to make themselves mysterious and intriguing on sight to white people... and whiter than black people.

This means that.. that starlot must be a physically interacial.. with clearly unafrican traits....to impress the tastes the black man..


but..

also having a body type and color that a white girl coudnt have...
the "athletic" and "rounded" body type that white girls could not possbile develop.

This means that.. that starlot must be a physically interacial.. with clearly unafrican traits....to impress the tastes the black man..

the first thinga black person would say.. when they notice in a beyonce type is:

" she is not white.. becuase she is much darker... but she doesnt look anything close the a black etiher ... hardly african..."

the first thing a white person would notice is:

" she is not black because she is much lighter... but .. then what is she.. let me look some more... "

both white and black.. people.. eeven before they can admire... sucha starlot.. are

the initial reaction is overcoming the mystery of the image of such a person... since.. in USA>..

it is hard to come across.... a person.. of the " racial type" of the " african american " starlet...

It seems today.. that among both sexes... it seems that this type of interracial .." african american" is what keeps the " sex appeal" crazed american audience...

All the popular reality shows try to feature as many interacial types as possible.. byt always.. describe.. them " striclty" as African American... and forget to mention...the unafrican portion of the person...


It seems that middle color and middle ground between.. balck and white.. has higher demand than either....

The previosuly ruled and ruling colors... of USA seems to have lost out.. in atleast american pop vanity to ... the middle ground.. to the middle color...!

Kramer vs Tribbiani...

Since there are no new Tv shows that I like.. in the age of "Reality"...

I end watching repalsy of Seinfeld and Friends....

I noticed that no one views the make up of the Friends show as I do :

What is Friends?

My summary would be

Friends : 5 New York Jews and 1 New York Italian ...Mr Joey Tribbiana...
"How Youuuuuuuuuu Doin'..!

and how would I summarize Seinfeld... well that is more complicated as the Seinfed was incomparabaly richer.

but a likewise comparision would be...

Seinfeld : 3 ( much smarter) NY Jews and 1 NY Italian ( George "Cant stand you" Castanza )

So you could say in a sense... that Friends - Seinfeld = 2 Jews... ( you can laugh now )


When Seinfeld came off the TV air waves... in 1998.. it was the Highester rated TV and comedy show...

Friends from 98 and onward .. would take Seinfelds spot at Top..

America seemed to accept Friends in place Of Seinfeld without any discomfart.. sort of like a change in the White house....!

Seinfeld came to TV in 1989... during a Bold movement in the Tv Business by the NBC TV station ( which was behind in success to the CBS and ABC stations ).

The movement was to replace the standard American family.. of Smiths/JOnes/and Williams in the family sitcom with hip Jewish singles living the new and trendy city
single and trendy big New york City Lifestyle...

As the 90s bloomed ... down went the american family on TV .. and came many other seinfeld type imitataions...
and During the flux of this trend came Friends and eventually... Sex and the City...which would explout the original intent of the movement spawned in the early 90s .. ten years later on HBO... in much more graphic and shocking detail than ever hoped for...

Seinfeld was the first and best show to exploit this...

The growth of this trend on Tv just tells me that that audience , metropolitan white people ( smiths and jones)... prefer seeing the NY jews than anyone else ..even themselves on TV...

The best indicator of this is the Friends the show..

The original idea of the show was:

the 2 main characters :

brother and sister : Ross and Monica Gellar.... New York jews...to appear normal and unquirky...

then..

the 2 sidekicks :

Monicas friend and sidekick... the blonde Rachel Green ...
...and...
Ross's friend...and sidekick...Chandler .. funny last name Bing.. who doesnt say anything unless it is sarcastically cynical and iritating to one of the other characters..

All of the four characters above... are presented as being of Jewish descent assimilated into America via the forturned of New York...
Such people are those I refer to as " New York Jews" ....
to a foreign viewer they may seem as the ordinary american ... but as I said.. that would be false .. becuase the ordinary american of the 1980s... micheal j fox.. was deliberatly removed .. in favour of the Gellars and those of their sort.. the "New York Jews" ..

the 4 characters are there for the audience to laugh with ....

and now to mention the other 2...for the audience to laugh at ... i said AT... and not WITH..

Monicas other friend... Phoebe Buffet...to call her ditzy would be severe understatement...

Unlike Joey... the other girls dont make fun of her .. as Chandler does.. because no one wants to see a cranky girl... as chandler appears cranky any time he makes a joke...

Phoebe makes her presence felt by saying silly things.. to allow the audience to laught at her... but unlike Joey.. whose statments make sense .. with twist..
Phoebe is totally absurd.. you cant treat her as a character but as a random interjection of nonsense to excite the audience...

Although she does not have an obvios jewish name... the actress Lisa Kurdrow.. has an obvious jewish name with typicall new york jewish physique..
so she is basiccally a jewish character..

then the last character..

Chandlers roomate ;..... the stereotype NY italian .. Joey Tribbiani...

and what makes him a steotype:

No education... and hence he works as an actor... and is unaware of the lackluster level of achievement he has unless he is informed by Chandler in his characteristic Jewish fashion... his two male counterparts are the opposite... one is a professor and the other some financial engineer...

Slow wit... chandlers sarcasm jokes are usually misunderstood by Joey... and usually unrealiezed by Joey... while the audience is laughing at Joey.

Ladies Man... he has the italian "mafiaso" confidence that he can have anyone one... so women are his only area of expertise .. while the 2 jewish boys... must game plan their first and second move after the slowly develop the confidence to step up to the plate...

All his lines generally reflect his dull wit.. and the lines spoken to him by chandler are almost always insulting of him for his foremention lack of intelligence...

His character is almost a deliberate bashing... of the stereotype New Italian persona and the New York Italian identity... from the minds of college educated , manhattan residing, media influential New York Jewish Community.

I could intrepret this as massice cultural statement coming from the top of the New York Jewish community expressing their feelings about the entire New York Italian culture.


so where does this leave the show ?

the show is basically has the jewish actors/characters as the main characters with the only outsider... the NY italian joey as their token "minority" to be pounced on by the other 4.. and ridiculed to the audience...

and this this formula... seems to have hit the jackpot with audience of white peopel of all ages.. who responded to this formula by making it USAs top show... for 6 years...

Bush - Whacked..?

So OBAMA IS HERE....
as the rapper ludacris said so in his song... " Obama is Here".

So far I think he is the only person to make an official song about Barack despite the record level craze over the election... in the internet age....

Meaning , the 1996,2000, and 2004 election did not get so much media and society craze like this election.

I found out that Obama won when I was waiting in line in a shop in London while on holiday.

While travelling throughout Europe, I met lots of people.

When I told them I was from Washington DC, they all smirked and quickly asked me about Bush jr ( Mccain ) vs Obama...

Every single person I met , was against Bush and consequently against Bush jr( Mccain )..

I cant count how many people I met.. but it was alot..

In usa , during the previous 3 elections... I never came across such one sided opinions..

I refer to Mccain as Bush Jr.. because people generally cant find a political identity of his own..

Everyone , especially people overseas.. think of any Republican candidate an extention of Bush...

so Mccain is the next closes thing to Bush...
so the election .. to the audience overseas...

was Bush jr ( Mccain ) vs Obama

The overwhelming one sided support was for Obama... almost like it was here...in USA...

so this made me wonder...

why did OBAMA win.. with such a large majority vote over Jr ( bush jr aka mccain )


1. People who hate Bush automatically voted for the opposite party without considereing anything else

2. Obama is Black.... otherwise indifferent blakc and white ppl voted for Barack just because he is black because they think.. they somehow contribute to " racial equality " if a Black finally makes it

3. Barack also pulls in ignorant Jay-Z/Anchor Man generation kids.. 18-25 aged ppl... who vote for him because they think Barack is hip.. and all the other guys are old and boring...

so when i consider all of this .... I find it hard to be impressed with Barack.. becuase all the reasons i mentioned above.. dont relate to any of his credentials or abilities...?

so what should I think of all the new Elect..?

Black Movies...

so what is a Black Movie...?


- Story Is set in a black neighbourhood in America.. that are poor ,chaotic, dangerous,

- Story is about some Black People
- Is made by a Black Director, Writers who are from the black neighbourhoods being represented...

- Has Black actors..maybe rappers


The films were low budget as they were aimed at a small market.. Black People..

The movement of Black Movies started in early 90s and made a big impact with select critics but not much national acclaim. THe movement produced up to 15 films.. and then just ended...

Here I will mention the best Black/ Ghetto Movies:


1. Boyz in the Hood - 1991

2. Menace To Society - 1992

3. Jasons Lyric - 1993

4 Poetic Justice - 1994

5 Above The Rim - 1994

6. Juice - 1991

7. Friday - 1996

8. New Jersey Drive - 1996

Gisele to the Pope

An interesting question has been posed by the Brazil orn and raised Internationally famed supermodel, Gisele Bundchen, to the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church regarding one of the Catholic's Churchs favorite discussion topics...." contraception " ( via condems...)

The Church has alwas pronounced the same position on the subject....

" NO Condoms ... Only the Natural Way ..." ~ POPE

which is against the "modern american scientific way".....

Gisele has posed the following against the POPE with an interesting choice of words:

" To prohibit condoms is ridiculous, just think of all the diseases transmitted without them,".
"How is it possible to not want people to use condoms and also not have abortions? It's impossible, I'm sorry "

~ Gisele Bundchen


I wonder if anyone has given her the obvious answer the Pope or any sensisible person could have told her...! It appears she has totally missed the obvious one and had not even bothered to counter the reason for it... as most Americans do when they challenge the pope...

Seinfeld Soup Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L06udJXhfK0&feature=related --or click on article title..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uY3znlUE4g

I saw this video on you tube featuring.....a news reporter's interview with New York City Soup Shop Owner , Al Yeganeh.

Not just any soup shop....but the one that was featured on Seinfeld in the 90s.

This was a famous episode where the real life soup shop and owner, Al Yeganeh, was portrayed on the Seinfeld show by an actor and termed as the " SOUP NAZI ".

The term NAZI .. . is used here in the "post modern" American convention as meaning ..." too strict and disciplined" for "normal" Americans.

The show came to be ... when the Seinfeld writers noticed the popualarity of the Soup shop in NYC and also the notoriety of the owner among the countless customers on NYC. Seinfled writers found the owners character as comedic material fitting for the show and put him an episode.

Al Yeganeh, founded the shop in New York City and developed the shop into a successfull business by making top quality soups. He was not informed that he and his shop would be represented on the show and basically riduculed for the American viewers to enjoy.


Al Yeganeh's character is represented as too strict for casual nature of the Americans who come to shop. Strict refers to the rules he has in the shop for customers who come in. The rules are otherwise normal rules requiring ordering correctly and precisely and being well mannered in the shop. Failure to follow the rules,,, would result in Al Yeganeh removing you from the shop.

On the TV show, Al Yeganeh is portrayed as unreasonable and the blunders of the careless Americans, inherent to the image of normalcy accepted in America., as mild and minor. SO when the Americans blunder and make a mistake, and break the rules...they are denied the soup and thrown out.

When I first saw the show... in the 90s... I thought that it was a fiction..
Then I found out it was based on real character... and thought it has to be an exaggeration...but after seeing this video clipon you tube.. I can see that it is accurate match between the character on the show and the original person.


The writers of Seinfeld , who represent the intellectual portion of the American population, as they are Harvard educated millionaires, interpret the behavior of the soup man in the same way as the regular Americans...which is extremely rigid to a ridiculous level..

This episode shows how far removed American culture is... throughout the segments of American population to any establsihed standard of discipline in any environment... in this case a restaurant....

This concept of Discipline is one of the landmark features of the culture Gap between todays America and all other culures ( Muslims,. Indian, and Chinese).

Here the original character is Al Yeganeh. He is an immigrant of Iran and represents the culture of Iran in his disapproval of American attitude of apathy, blundering , and casual outlook in the form of their behavior in the shop.

In real life, the displeased New york customers had given him the nick name of terrorist, relating his Irananian Muslim background.

I assume terrorist is more insulting to him than NAZI.. which is what the TV show used.

Even though it is used for humour...it shows how Americans perceive the basic wualities of Asian culture...and how they would even humour it with other wise controversial terms as NAZI...

Here .. even though the character is IRanian.. the same type of culture gap could have resulted from a Chinese or Indian owner...
I wonder what nickname would have come for each of those.

The Name .. NAZI.. is only works if the guy is atleast in appearance... close to European.. and close to the original Nazis....

Here is a link to the video from you tube. showing how Al Yeganeh made his repuation...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uY3znlUE4g

Celibate Supermodel....

I recently read a headline in a web article that:

International Fashion Model and Victoria Secret Icon, Adriana Lima, has disclosed that she is a VIRGIN.....and will remain so until she is " married"...

Meaning that she has never " gone the bases" with any of her past celebrity " boyfriends" .

I found this a sensational, unthinkable, surprise.

Adriana Lima, 26 year old model from Brazil, made her fame in the American media with the typicaal image of allure in American mainstream..

Such an image is the very opposite of the character she has announced.

Besides her fame through supermodelling advertisements... she increased her celebrity status... by " dating" American celebraties.. who also assiciate with an image that as far as possible from celibate...

She has been quoted as saying:

"Sex is for after marriage. Men have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect that means they don't want me" ~ Adriana



Here Adriana, has smashed the presumed public persona she with her recent announcement...


For those people... who know of Brazil ... through its soccer teams and supermodels only... this disclosure announced by Adriana Lima will also become a prominent element in shaping the image of brazil to the distant observer....

"How about some Hardcore "

Whenever I hear some news from young kids.. or the TV about some new big deal rapper...
I just think.. " How much longer... will Rap last"...

I .. .like most of the honest and few good rappers... left in rap.. have to think those qualities that gave Rap its integrity... are gone.. and that Rap...

is new type of Pop Music.. using the gangsta identity of the 90s as a marketing technique to attract.. increasingly demoralized and gullible white kids.. who are eager adn willing to buy the Rap CDS.....

Those who have profited most from the late 90s and 2000s era of Pop Rap.. have done it by design.. by making their singles,, music videos and marketing campaign with intentions of major sales...

Rap.. is the BIG BUISNESS first... with Rap as the surface level... product.....


about 10 rappers in this decade.. have earned the big dollars... meaning

$50 million in career earnings or more...

the list is :

$100 million plus :

1. Sean Combs...P. Diddy

2. Jay Z

3. 50 cent

4. Master P

5. Cash Money Boys


$50 million plus :

6. Dr Dre

7. Ice Cube

8. Wyclef jean

9. Marshall Mathers

10 Jermaine Dupri

The Doctorate.... Phil

I have been wathching the Dr Phil Show lately... and noticed.. that:

Although he is qualied as pyschologist.. with a PHD... giving himself the title of Dr.... It appears to me that he is just giving his guests...solutions to major problems in his life with common good sense... whihc in any sound culture is built on..


His guests, usually chosen from the " decent" elements of the society.. meaning that they are not ignorant enough to appear on the ricki lake, maury povich or montell Williams show... are far away from the cultural ideal of the innocent America of the 1960s.. which was just few decade.

The class of people who are endless in quantity.. to keep the show running... as I mentioned are above the repulsive and overwhelming ignorant nature of the other shows I mentioned.... this class is till far removed from.. than the santified and world advertiseed description of America..which features:

apple pies, baseball, Christmas trees... and etc....

So if the Decent people have fallen ... what do u call the sizey amount of those who are far beneath them...?

Dr Phil is aimed at a decent audience.. just a step beneath Oprah...

Is this class the real... "average American"

Despite how freigtening the demoralized nature of the guests are... Dr Phils Nature matches that of the traditional ideal of integrity.. which seems to signify that.. what was the average american.. in the 1960s.. is only preserved as an rarity.. an elite remnant in todays society...perhaps only capable of being prserved throught PHds level of educational preparation...

Slave Labor ... in the US...?

An interesting article from BBC news... south asia..

"Indian men in US 'slave' protest

The Indian workers claim they have been kept in poor conditions
Almost 100 Indians who moved to the US for jobs have marched hundreds of miles to Washington DC in protest at being forced to work "like slaves".
The Indian ambassador


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7316130.stm

Gaura Kaala......Black or White...?

The concept of " Race" is an article that has had tremendous significance over the last 100 years in the progressive social culture of America, the West and all its extentions in the International forum

In America it is the single biggest divisor in the defacto class system. All legitimate Americans have to be classified as White or Black .

If you dont associate either of these labels to yourself , you are an asterisk or foreign or ethinic looking person..

White and Black... although words that indicate color.... are cultural ( or man made ) classifications of biological features of stocks of peoples.

So white and black , despite how normalized they have become in the American hegemony of culture ....... are still cultural perspectives about " Race"..

This means that I dont accept Black and White as scientific or True categories for people to belong but a simplification to assign people to cultural groups...

The ancestors of American White people... are Europe..
and that of Black Americans is Africa.....

In Europe and Africa... the various countries.. do not identify themselves immediately by color but by other cultural features... such as .. Language and Tribal Lineage and other abstract cultural features...

So a German would identify himself first as German... and to lesser extent as White..
Likewise in Africa.. .an Gambian would identify himself as Gambian before Black...
There would be significant culture gap between two African races such as between Gambian and and a Kenyan.... and likewise between a German and an Italian...
Since there are major culture gaps between races of the same " color"... the " color" itself such as White or Black is not enough to be a binding force ...

There is more cultural animosity in Europe between Eurpean countries than between any such European country and any isloated African country..

In American the only cultural label for americans.... is White and Black... since all other cultural features of America are subject to " progressive" character of American establishment.. which means that they will likely change every 10 years... or sooner.... to an ireconciliable point.

LasVegas Showgirl....