American Influence On Ecuador

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Is so great the power of the United States that will achieve Americanize all the world’s cultures or the strength of traditions will make local cultures least forever? With the passing of the years the United States had been a role model for Ecuador. Part of the Ecuador’s population seeing this stated that their old culture is already Americanize with the fast food restaurants and the different invents that America made. On the other hand the remaining population said that Americanization is not too strong to make Ecuador’s culture change. These two different points of view have become in a great debate. Despite the fact that Ecuador has many American things like food and clothes or Ecuadorians use America’s invents like internet: Ecuador will …show more content…
In the past Ecuador counted with more than 300 ethnics groups, in the presents only 15 of these groups are spreading for all around Ecuador. En the article “Commodity Production and Ethnic Culture: Otavalo Northern Ecuador” Tanya Korovkin displays the life of one ethnic group located in Otavalo (125). Otavalo’s ethnic groups help with economic and cultural changes in Ecuador. These groups still maintain their clothes, food and crafts, they still living in tents in the woods and they still following and hunting animals (125-127). Tanya claims that each city in Ecuador you will see many of these groups’ crafts and many visitor from different countries will buy it. This way these ethnic groups not only help with economic but it also helps to maintain the …show more content…
Mark Rice-Oxley stated “If it took two millenniums for Plato’s Republic to reach North America, the latest hit from Justin Timberlake can be found in Greek (and Japanese) stores within days (163). Rice-Oxley’s statement said that is more easy and fast to take America’s culture than any other culture in the world. The world is losing important cultural knowledge. People is getting to know more and more each time about a mouse using a red suit than Plato that is a philosopher that contributed a lot with the word.
Contributing with Rice-Oxley’s statement, “Bored with USA? by Brendon O’Connor shows the media influence and the culinary system from the United States to the world (160-162). Fast food restaurants, such as McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken are easy to find in any place of the universe. TVs programs from Friends to Dora the explorer are watch all around the globe. America’s music and dances are taking the world’s parties and to do not forget that Sponge Bob Square Pants’ song that everybody hums. These are only few examples of the influence that the United States

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