Yes, I read your entire exchange with CB, and the only thing I can conclude is you have no coherent idea of what you're trying to argue at all. Save a mishmash of anti-corporate glop.
Your argument is put to the lie everytime anyone walks into a grocery store in any major metro area here in the States, which CB and I have both mentioned, and you don't seem to understand. I can eat food from any country on the planet, by going to the grocery store, or one of many restaurants. My wife owns a sari. Indian dress and music has become very trendy in some parts of the US because of the success of Bollywood imports to US theater. You place Heaven and Earth in the hands of marketing, and well that's just crap. And if you think it isn't, you don't know anyone in marketing.
Did America become less American for the widespread adoption of the car, replacing the horse? Of course not. That's because cultures ARE NOT STATIC. They borrow, they adopt, they make outside technology and processes and IDEAS fit into their own, unique blend. As I said, technology diffusion has been going on since 5 million BC. You are conflating CULTURE SHOCK at the PACE of change, with something else. In previous eras, change took generations. Today, it takes months. You can bang on the "Evil Corporation" drum all you want, but it takes two to tango, and no one is twisting anybody's arm, contrary to what you claim.
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