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Thomas L Friedman believes that the world’s economy can be summed up by five gas stations around the world, comparing and contrasting communist capitalist economies. He uses this analogy to support his conclusion, along with theoretical questions, connotations, and appeal to pathos, that America is infiltrating every culture through different medias so that they reflect American values. Friedman assumes that youth around the globe is happily eating up American media and does not acknowledge groups of youth that reject it or are not exposed to American media. He also does not acknowledge other countries media entering our mainstream culture. British shows like Downton Abbey and Dr. Who along with Japanese anime are all becoming popular with …show more content…
She implies that the older Arabs unwillingness to embrace American things is as strong of a force as the American influence on Arab youth. She uses this implication to support her argument that Hollywood is eroding the Arab identity. She relies on an interview by Charles Stuart to come to this conclusion, citing statements from the interview by Arab elders and their displeasure with American Media. She assumes that Arab youth are abandoning in their Arab identity to become Americanized and does not acknowledge that Arab youth can enjoy American things without completely drowning out their identity. She also assumes all Arab elders are against American assimilation into their culture. She does not include any elders accepting of American media and food. These first-hand experiences that she quotes are heavily biased against Hollywood media and could be taken out of context considering Havrilesky only used one source, a documentary. This is not a reliable source because of the bias in which the evidence was chosen. Havrilesky claims that American influence in Arab culture is causing more extremist view in elder Muslims is not supported with only one
Thomas L Friedman believes that the world’s economy can be summed up by five gas stations around the world, comparing and contrasting communist capitalist economies. He uses this analogy to support his conclusion, along with theoretical questions, connotations, and appeal to pathos, that America is infiltrating every culture through different medias so that they reflect American values. Friedman assumes that youth around the globe is happily eating up American media and does not acknowledge groups of youth that reject it or are not exposed to American media. He also does not acknowledge other countries media entering our mainstream culture. British shows like Downton Abbey and Dr. Who along with Japanese anime are all becoming popular with …show more content…
She implies that the older Arabs unwillingness to embrace American things is as strong of a force as the American influence on Arab youth. She uses this implication to support her argument that Hollywood is eroding the Arab identity. She relies on an interview by Charles Stuart to come to this conclusion, citing statements from the interview by Arab elders and their displeasure with American Media. She assumes that Arab youth are abandoning in their Arab identity to become Americanized and does not acknowledge that Arab youth can enjoy American things without completely drowning out their identity. She also assumes all Arab elders are against American assimilation into their culture. She does not include any elders accepting of American media and food. These first-hand experiences that she quotes are heavily biased against Hollywood media and could be taken out of context considering Havrilesky only used one source, a documentary. This is not a reliable source because of the bias in which the evidence was chosen. Havrilesky claims that American influence in Arab culture is causing more extremist view in elder Muslims is not supported with only one