Donghui Wang Dr. Keunah Han First project 04/22/2015 Still Do As “American’s” Do ? Sometimes people will say, “do as Roman’s do”, which means just do something like others do, that will make you feel not awkward. Then for a period, you will get used to do that like local people. Each country has its own traditional culture, which was becoming from different historical factors for a long time. As we all know, China has a long history with about five thousand years and it is one of the four ancient civilizations. However, now I do not think our traditional cultures were more distinctive than others. With the progress of the technology and the development of the national relations, the culture has no borders among countries, so people will get more different art, music, and literature from other countries. Now, the United States is a power country in the world. Its economic, industry, political and other factors will be one of the reason why the Americanization influence our country even though we are not living in America. The United States can use many ways to affect our traditional culture. The first area is the entertainment many people in China like to watch the programs or movies from the America, especially to the young people. Secondly, many girls and women like the luxury brands they will spend lots of money on the expensive dolls and cosmetic. Thirdly, our traditional food is affected by the fast food and western diets; the eating habits will be changed little by little. The last one is language, the English makes a heavy influence to our mother language, and many teenagers will pay more attention to the English than Chinese. Thus, this is why I think Chinese culture is influenced by the Americanization. For almost young people, everyone wants to be a cool guy or a beautiful girl, so they will get more influence from the Americanization by the entertainment and fashion products, because I think there are lost of fashion arts and new technology will together in the America, and some of them almost think the America stands for freedom, the rich people and the forefront of the trend and so on. For the young boy, the entertainment shows them lots of American culture. They always watch the basketball game from NBA and they will simulate the player who is their favorite to play the basketball, but as we all know, Chinese people was good at playing Ping Pong ball and badminton, and so many traditional sports something like Kick Qianzi or Martial art. And here a good example from the article wrote by Mark Rice-Oxley. As his point, Baseball has long since taken root in Asia and Cuba. And Chinese young people are becoming more mesmerized by American football and basketball, some even printing the names of NBA stars on their school sweat suits. And the NFL make a plan to release a Chinese version of its website per month. (P.164) They use the satellite to broadcast every live game to satisfy the Asian subcontinent with their heavy traffic of U.S ...

1. Donghui Wang
Dr. Keunah Han
First project
04/22/2015
Still Do As “American’s” Do ?
Sometimes people will say, “do as Roman’s do”, which means
just do something like others do, that will make you feel not
awkward. Then for a period, you will get used to do that like
local people. Each country has its own traditional culture, which
was becoming from different historical factors for a long time.
As we all know, China has a long history with about five
thousand years and it is one of the four ancient civilizations.
However, now I do not think our traditional cultures were more
distinctive than others. With the progress of the technology and
the development of the national relations, the culture has no
borders among countries, so people will get more different art,
music, and literature from other countries. Now, the United
States is a power country in the world. Its economic, industry,
political and other factors will be one of the reason why the
Americanization influence our country even though we are not
living in America. The United States can use many ways to
affect our traditional culture. The first area is the entertainment
many people in China like to watch the programs or movies
from the America, especially to the young people. Secondly,
many girls and women like the luxury brands they will spend
lots of money on the expensive dolls and cosmetic. Thirdly, our
traditional food is affected by the fast food and western diets;
the eating habits will be changed little by little. The last one is
language, the English makes a heavy influence to our mother
language, and many teenagers will pay more attention to the
English than Chinese. Thus, this is why I think Chinese culture
is influenced by the Americanization.
For almost young people, everyone wants to be a cool guy or a
beautiful girl, so they will get more influence from the

2. Americanization by the entertainment and fashion products,
because I think there are lost of fashion arts and new technology
will together in the America, and some of them almost think the
America stands for freedom, the rich people and the forefront of
the trend and so on.
For the young boy, the entertainment shows them lots of
American culture. They always watch the basketball game from
NBA and they will simulate the player who is their favorite to
play the basketball, but as we all know, Chinese people was
good at playing Ping Pong ball and badminton, and so many
traditional sports something like Kick Qianzi or Martial art.
And here a good example from the article wrote by Mark Rice-
Oxley. As his point, Baseball has long since taken root in Asia
and Cuba. And Chinese young people are becoming more
mesmerized by American football and basketball, some even
printing the names of NBA stars on their school sweat suits.
And the NFL make a plan to release a Chinese version of its
website per month. (P.164) They use the satellite to broadcast
every live game to satisfy the Asian subcontinent with their
heavy traffic of U.S. audiovisual content.
For the young girl they are affected by the fashion product, they
will buy many kinds of cosmetic, clothes, and bags and so on,
most of the brands that make these stuff are from America. With
the improvement of living standards, parent will spend more
time and money on their children, especially on the girls, so
they will buy everything if their children asked them to buy for
them. And children know those products from the television or
the advertising of the super market. I think almost young
women like beautiful and fashion since they are children,
because every girl would has their own Barbie doll in their
childhood period. For this kind of toy, they can buy lots of
small dresses for them to change to what they like. This way
will make the doll more special and beautiful. After they dress
up the doll, they will have comparisons with other girls so
that’s why as they get older, they still have a strong awareness
to buy the American’s products. Each girl always has a perfect

3. Barbie doll in their heart. Since this phenomenon, many young
women will buy the luxury products, like the Versace, Donna
Karan, Marc Jacobs with no thinking. However, in my opinion,
they lose our traditional virtues-thrifty. According to Brendon
O'Connor’s article, he gave me a good agreement with this point
that he said he worried about the consistency and weakness that
comes with much American popular culture. He added to this
against unease with the power of American advertising and
marketing. (P.162) Because of this, parents feel pressured about
buying their children expensive label clothes. Teenage girls
starve themselves to look like Video Hits dancers these
insignificances aren't exclusively the fault of American culture
but they do not deserve amounts of the blame. Thus, for me the
Americanization reflect a worrying conformity in our culture
and the influence on the more and more young age.
Now I think our food culture will stagnate by Americanization.
All the people who live in their own homeland will have their
own traditional food. During my young period, I was so proud
that I was born in China, because I can taste lots different types
food in a special dishes restaurant. After China accessed into
WTO, China gets a great opportunity to develop its own
marketing, economy and other fields. So this is a reason why
lots of foreigners come to China to get a higher wage jobs. At
the same time, they also bring their own diet to their work
place. For example, many American workers do not have
enough time to enjoy a great lunch or dinner when they are
working, so they will have the fast food, some like the Subway,
the KFC and so on. Now the American fast food will
encroachment our body little by little. In these junk food, it has
lots of heat and fried food which is not healthy for young
people to thrive. Maybe in one day our countries’ children will
like the Americans’ to get fatter by eating lots of fast food such
as the McDonald’s.
(Graph.1 Families stand in line for McDonald’s)
From Vicente Verdu’s article, “we are all Americans”, he said
to give itself some local color, McDonald's in France aids

4. special Salad along with hamburgers; in Greece, it operates feta
cheese; and in Singapore, it serves fried chicken. In Norway,
McDonald's uses salmon instead of beef, and in China, it serves
Chinese fritters with gruel in the morning and it also rice and
soup for the lunch and diner. (P.24) But it is still McDonald's,
and as it is well-known by now. Since 1986, Big Mac has been
the term used by The Economist to express the varying values
of the world's currencies. In addition, now many people like to
taste the western food, which is so expensive to the ordinary
families even though some of families will cook the western
food at home as well as American families. I want to say that
this is not a racial discrimination. It is just a worry about our
culture get weaker even disappear with a long time.
“The American English has an important status in China and it
is almost to be our second native language.” (Lian.2015) From
this teacher article, the English study got more imperative and
difficult for young children to accept. With the improvement of
living standards, many parents will send their children to abroad
studying and the America is the famous country in their best
wishes. Thus from a long-term perspective, parents will sent
their children to the international school at an early age. The
teachers will teach them by English so that the Chinese will be
like second language which is the truly mother tongue for them
to learn. On the other hand, from the textbook, the Mark Rice-
Oxley also thought the American English is the language of
choice for world just like the pop stars in Europe, software
programmers in India, and Internet surfers everywhere. (P.166)
With the reform and opening in China, English has a larger
proportion in each level of our citizens. And some of the
kindergarten teaches children with speaking English and
Chinese at the same time. When they grow up, they need to get
a great grade for the English, because it is an important subject
and skill to get higher education in the future. This is also the
reason why parents pay a great attention to the English study
not appreciate that it is just a language to communicate with
other people.

5. In conclusion, the Americanization is like a power wind, no
matter where you are, you will be affected by the American
food, the social media, the entertainment, the brands and so on.
Even you do not want to lose your own culture, but the truth it
is. Every country must to protect them own traditional culture
so that it will not totally turn to be part of the United States, do
not still do as “American’s” do.
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