Why are well-meaning Westerners so concerned that the opening of a Colonel Sanders in Beijing means the end of Chinese culture? A fatal Americanization. But we have had Chinese resteraunts in America for over a century, and it hasn’t made us Chinese. On the contrary, we obliged the Chinese to invent chop suey. What could be more American than that? French fries?
– Marshall Sahlins
From Davos to Seattle
“Before you’ve finished your breakfast this morning, you’ll have relied on half the world.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
