Americanization is a term that was widely used in the ^nineteenth century to describe the influence (hello) then exercised - but now in decline due to new influences - from U.S. citizens on the lives of others the world and this culture taking over all or part of the advantages of American culture.

Depending on the context of employment and people, the term can receive a negative or positive. To its detractors, it often implies an idea of acculturation and threats to traditional cultures. An amalgam is often made between the cultural impact of Americanization and those of globalization , viewed together as tending to standardize ways of life.

McDonald's in Shanghai / At the peak associations of ideas that resentment relates to the Americanization, the phenomenon of McDonaldization of fast food, which itself has produced a vocabulary of the USA: (en) McWords.

It is difficult to determine the degree and persistence of these influences, and collect if from a free will or whether they are induced. The situation has had to rule this country on the geopolitical front has long made them unavoidable, they induce critical behavior or assimilation.

The Americans talk of Americanization to describe the changes that are certain foreign works to adapt to American culture. For example, the first book in the saga of Harry Potter was translated from British English to American.

Factors of Americanization

One country, large and having a strong identity, a culture unwilling to change under external influences.

However a small country whose language is not widely known outside can be opened strongly with American culture in order to communicate with the outside. This may explain why the Scandinavian countries does not reflect the foreign language films but the caption. A joke says that Sweden is the most Americanized country in the world, the other being the United States ^{Other meanings related}

• The term also corresponds to individuals who are choosing American-sounding nicknames with a view to carving out a reputation in their community, like Mario Girotti , better known by the name of Terence Hill and his bold double, Carlo Pedersoli famous alias Bud Spencer.
• In the same film community, the word refers to an Americanized remake adapted to the standards of the general North American public, as was the case with the film Nikita for .
• The term has been matched in the economic field, to a specific period in Europe from the end of WWI to the 1950s which saw the capital and also industrial methods from the United States become a reference.

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Bibliography

• The Americanization and the global expansion of ethnic conflict: the pitfalls of globalization , PlanetAgora.org, 2004
• Mario D'Angelo, The media-cultural groups facing cultural diversity, coll. Innovations & Development, Idea Europe, Paris (reprint 2002) ( ISBN 2-909941-05-1 )
• Mario d'Angelo, Socio-economics of music in France: A vulnerable system, the French Documentation, Paris, 1997
• Olivier Dard, Hans-Jrgen Lsebrink (eds.), Americanization and anti-Americanisms compared, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Septentrion, 2008

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