I just dont like to comingle modern day business practices with modern
day missionary(primarily religious) practices. Maybe it is my strong
support of the seperation of church and state(and in my mind that includes
business as well). Yet I still believe that American culture does and will
infiltrate third world nations more than just because of missionaries or
even corporate practices but also because America and other nations arent
third world. America is considered to be the most powerful nation in the
world-that may have something to do with it as well.
Bertina
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Lela Schneidman wrote:
> do you think that we have a more covert way of being missionaries now? as i see
> it, we use our products, our cultural ideologies, and our economic strength to go
> into countries today and teach them our ways. we don't have to do it by impressing
> our religious values onto the people directly anymore, instead our American dream
> seeps right into their cultures. what is McDonalds in Russia, Japan, S. Africa?
> what are the Levi's and the coca-cola doing for global politics? would you
> consider these big companies to be types of cultural missionaries---gently
> preaching Christianity with every burger sold??? i don't know what you guys think
> about all this.
> thanks for all the great responses so far. you are a great group of people. esp.
> nicole for the really long and thoughtful one.
> peace
> Lela
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