The Impact Of American Culture On Food Movie And Language
Many people in the world have adopted American styles of living in terms of dressing, feeding, entertainment products, and even the language (Inglis, 101). This kind of adoption explains the extent of Americanization in most of the countries. According to Brendon, (162) the concern about Americanization is not to condemn the American culture. Some aspects of American culture are good and helpful to the Americanized nations. Other aspects of the culture are destroying the sense of locality, which makes people prefer more of American culture to their local culture hence a loss of identity. American lifestyle has been introduced as far as China and some of the most practiced lifestyle is feeding (Inglis, 101). American style and drinks have altered the Chinese feeding culture despite the fact the strong confidence that people of China had about their way of feeding.
The adoption of new eating habits by the Chinese is due to the diversity of its population hence necessitating importation of foodstuffs from other countries like America who produce a variety of foodstuffs (Inglis, 102). It was hard to feed the increasing population on the scarce Chinese foods that is mostly meat. Due to the scarcity of meat, more foods had to be introduced from other cultures like American.
The most changed thing in the Chinese diet is the cooking. The Chinese make their selection of live seafood, seasonal fruits, fresh meats and vegetables from the market and they make sure these foods are fresh. Generally, Chinese people have less concern about the nutrition. They are normally concerned with the texture, flavor, aroma and the color of the food. These characters represent the key points for Chinese’s best cooking (Inglis, 104). However, with the American influence on the Chinese diet, the diet has been modified to an American cooking style which has a tendency of associating spices with flavor enhancement with a variety of ingredients making it so different from the Chinese style of cooking. The American style of food has advanced due to the influence of media where comparisons are being made always from various local styles hence coming up with various mix styles.
American food contains dairy foods like milk, cream, cheese and they normally have various meals in a day which was not a practice in the Chinese traditional feeding habit where they used to have three meals a day (Inglis, 102). American feeding habits include various units’ snacks making the number of meals more than the normal one in Chinese tradition.
The traditional Chinese diet is characterized by low quantity of animal-based foods with plenty of plant-based foods. This diet has always been known for fighting diseases (Caballero, 42). In addition to being delicious Chinese cooking is based on serving as a therapy for harmonizing the body in seasons. The traditional Chinese diet comprises of vegetables that are steamed lightly, accompanied by rice, dumplings, or noodles (Caballero, 42). Fish and meat being part of the diet are normal to be served in smaller in amount compared to the western diet. This is so different from the American cooking style that has changed the Chinese order of diet. The American style of cooking has been introduced in china and most of the Chinese food now is an American version. Chinese immigrants created it some time back, adapting style using American ingredients. The traditional Chinese foods include chop suey, won ton soup, moo goo gai pan, and egg foo yung (Caballero, 42). These foods had to be changed when the Chinese immigrants mixed up with Americans and due to lack of Chinese ingredients in America; they were forced to use the American ingredients in preparing Chinese foods. As a result, the Chinese food became Americanized and a new wave of dishes was introduced in Chinese diet including Kung pao chicken, general Tso’s chicken, mushu pork and sour soup.
The introduction of American styles of cooking has several impacts to both china and America and the impacts are both positive and negative. First, with the change in the cooking styles, Chinese have resorted to growing the American ingredients in order to maintain the style of cooking (Caballero, 42). It has also created trade relation between America and china by importing some food items from America to china. This has also resulted in a variety of foodstuffs in china to add the ones that existed. Americans are now free to move to china without worry of what to feed on the other because there are varieties of foodstuffs that favor them the other side (Cody, 10). The Chinese change of food styles promotes diverse population. Americans are advantaged because they establish American hotels in china for their own benefit hence promoting American products.
Similarly, there is a difference in the Chinese order of menu when compared to that of America and their dining environment is always noisy which is perceived welcoming and joyful. With an Americanized restaurant in china, they are normally organized, quiet always dressed fancy clothing. And this has changed the nature in the Chinese styles (Inglis, 102).
This adoption of American culture also has a negative impact to the Chinese. There is a distortion of culture as the Americans replace the Chinese style foods with the American style. The home commodities or food items lose market since are now introduced to another cooking style which requires importation of ingredients (Cody, 10). American hotels in china have to employ American chefs since they are the ones who have much experience in the American style of foods than the Chinese hence neglecting the Chinese. They also resulted in a fall in the domestic restaurants especially those that cook typical traditional Chinese foods (Cody, 10). The Chinese cooking that aimed to promote the health of people is being replaced by the American style, which comprises a mixture of many ingredients may not serve the same purpose like the traditional Chinese food.
American culture has rapidly impacted food, movie as well as language of the Chinese. This is because the culture in American is diverse and uncommon and it is inaugurated by the conquest of Europeans of distinct territories that are habited by indigenous individuals (Kornblum, William, and Smith, 113). These territories have therefore contributed greatly in the developing of civilization. This has, in turn, influenced the popular tastes of individuals in their daily lives. In this, the tastes of food which was developed by different groups have changed gradually as individuals have been transformed by the American culture. As a result of the influences from the indigenous groups, the American culture is thus characterized by unusual forms and patterns which have been generated and forged from the diverse population (Kornblum, William, and Smith, 116).
The complexity of the American culture has developed a society that is characterized by huge struggles in achieving tolerance as well as in producing an extraordinary casual style of persons which identifies and defines America everywhere (Kornblum, William, and Smith, 117). In movie production, American culture has greatly affected language because individuals have to adopt English in playing their roles since the American language is very important in making the movie scenes successful. The chine individuals are therefore required to learn the English language for at least 6yeras in order to assure that they are well equipped with the language. Therefore, the American culture has been a great influence on language because people from the indigenous cultures have to learn the American language in order to fit in its culture (Kornblum, William, and Smith, 118). Additionally, American English has largely been adopted as a common language among different territories. Movie production has largely been influenced by the American language as it is characterized by well-developed characters, language, facilities as well as success. This is mainly because the course impact is based on the super-dominant position of America as it has the capability of making individuals do as it requires (Kornblum, William, and Smith, 118).
Conclusion
Americanization has been an impact to many nations in different ways. This has changed the ways of dressing, entertainment, feeding styles, language and even sports. These have been transmitted in many countries including china. Americanization has brought change in the Chinese diet and most of it is in the cooking style where Americans use various ingredients while cooking which was not the case with the traditional Chinese cooking (Inglis, 105). This is different because the Chinese cooking involves a few categories of foods and normally in their fresh state. This effect of Americanization has influenced china both positive and negatively. The positive is significant as it leads to a variety of foods in the nation which avoids relying on a few. Negatively, it makes the china products and foods lose a market as America’s are normally competitive.
Works Cited
Brendon O’Connor, (P161-162) article use for talk about people in other countries know and more familiar with US culture and knowledge than their country’s culture.
Mark Rice-Oxley (P163), article use to talk about US exports its own culture in a very widely range, things like sport, entertainment and food.
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