Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 10:09:01 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Global Monoculture



>
>But are there any arguments or visions that capitaism promotes diversity?
>Obviously capitalism fosters product diversity (build a better mousetrap,
>etc.) but are there ways in which it may foster human diversity? Or are we
>all inexorably becoming the Brady Bunch?

My example is Disneyworld, outside Paris. I rest my case forever. History
is Disney, sex is Disney, country is Disney, family is Disney. edutainment
is Disney (the administrator built university). The only think that isn't
Disney is food--which can be as multicultural as all get it, ad indeed may
be the only viable refuge of multifulturalism (long as we don't eat none of
them dogs).
>
>It would seem that cultural anthropologists have been writing about the
>phenomena of "cultural invasion" for a long time. We all probably know how
>the introduction of a steel ax can destroy a stone-ax culture.  Cultural
>anthropology also spawned the semiotics of culture, did it not? So what's
>the diference?

Among what?

>Regards,
>Eric Yost

g




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