Reflection #3

In “Jihad v McWorld” the author Benjamin Barber strongly compares the struggle of Jihad to the popular culture of the McWorld. These ideologies are far from similar, with Jihad being resistance to pop culture, while McWorld is all about their same ideals being spread worldwide. If you look, McDonald's is located in over 100 different countries, and not only that, they have more than 36,000 restaurants. They are taking over the world seemingly, and the “Jihad” resistance-struggle is resisting this mainstream takeover.

To individuals who strongly believe in their culture, this drastic shift from individuality, to the mainstream forced culture is unwelcome. From American and other western countries, we push our very different culture and way of life on many other nations who are very dissimilar to ours. The media is very destructive tool, forcing ideals of American-ology being the best for people, but in reality, is that true? We have so many of our own political and social/race problems that we leave unsolved, from prejudices and hate crimes, we are a national many of thousands of cultures, that “add a little bit of flair to the salad” whereas Jihadists extremists I believe generally have one cultural background that they focus upon. We can not push western culture on countries who do not want any part of it.