On Jan 11, 2008 3:32 PM, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Peter Hollings wrote: > > > Globalization > > and empire are forces that favor monoculture > > Do they really? What music does MTV China play? I see a lot of > hybridization going on, which makes cultural purists of left and > right nervous. >
Fools like Thomas Friedman exaggerate this phenomenon a lot, but I think that there really is a trend towards cultural homogeneity. More specifically media and popular culture are becoming more and more Americanized - in India at least. MTV India may not play all of the same videos and shows as MTV US, but the format is very similar. -raghu.
