What has globalization ever done to you?

[Dinner]

Che: The Anti-globalizers say they are internationalists but their fear mongering is the greatest restraint upon further international exchanges.

Spiffor: I can't argue with you that the US is quick to go after any potential market opportunity but it is hardly the "tidal wave" people keep talking about. This sort of reminds me of the anti-Japanese pobia that swept the industrialized world in the late 1980s through the early 1990s; supposedly the Japanese did everything so much better that they were going to take over the world and put everyone else out of business.

Of course that never happened. The fear mongers were exaggerating then and they're exaggerating now. Same crap in a new wrapper.

[Sava]

I tend to not agree with the anti-globalization people. I'm somewhere in the middle. As with anything in capitalism, it needs to be regulated to prevent abuses.

[Arrian]

Siro.

I actually read the whole thing. For the most part, I agree.

-Arrian

[Arrian]

Spiff, I don't know whether to laugh or cry when you say things like this:

I take big pride in boycotting McDonald's, Coca Cola, and everything that looks like it

Not because you don't buy that stuff (good, because it ain't exactly healthy), but because you "take big pride" in it, because you're rejecting the "flood" of American culture.

You're talking about FAST FOOD AND SODA. Get a ****ing grip!

-Arrian

[General Ludd]

I'm not reading any of that, but just so you know, "anti-globalization" is a very misleading term created by the media. The 'anti-globalization' activists are not against globalization, they are for it - it is even what makes the movement posible. What they are against is the way it is being done, and the way a select few are managing the entire world for their own profit.

[Spiffor]

Arrian, I know it is probably our strongest disagreement when it comes to the issue. Let's just say I give more cultural value than you to these fast food and sodas.

[Arrian]

Clearly.

Me, I thoroughly enjoyed the Sesame Chicken combo lunch special I ate for lunch yesterday from "Beijing Garden" the local Chinese restaurant. I might go eat at "Tapas" (a local Greek place) soon, last week I had some really tasty fajitas over at "Puerto Vallarta."

My Anglo-Saxon blood is not boiling over the intrusion of these furriners & their food.

-Arrian

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Arrian
Clearly.

Me, I thoroughly enjoyed the Sesame Chicken combo lunch special I ate for lunch yesterday from "Beijing Garden" the local Chinese restaurant. I might go eat at "Tapas" (a local Greek place) soon, last week I had some really tasty fajitas over at "Puerto Vallarta."

My Anglo-Saxon blood is not boiling over the intrusion of these furriners & their food.

-Arrian

The only food that isn't foreign to North america is Native American food, and I'm willing to bet you've never had any of that before.

[Sava]

Sorry, I'm not a big fan of Buffalo meat and puddle water


JK/ A JOKE!

[Spiffor]

Indeed. I also enjoy eating at my Chinese restaurant every Saturnday I spend in my hometown, I eat Turkish Kebabs regularily (edit: read twice a week), and I sometimes even buy myself some Floridan orange juice (viciously expansive however). I am also a very big fan of feta cheese.

My beef is not with foreign, or even American penetration. It is about what I deem to be a too deep penetration.

[Dinner]

I'm all for deep penetration.

Especially with some of the cuties in the "Babes" thread.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I'm all for deep penetration.

Especially with some of the cuties in the "Babes" thread.

[Spiffor]

It hurts when you the one being penetrated.

[Sava]

I wouldn't know...

[Spiffor]

Naturally, You're American