Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of McDonaldization.
Both Menchaca and Urrutia-Rojas commented that first-generation Mexican immigrants tend to enjoy healthy foods and lifestyles. The McDonalds-ization of their diets and culture over time takes a toll.
2006 August 27, Richard J. Gonzales, “Looking like Don Quixote, not Sancho Panza”, in Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Tex., page 6E, column 32 more examples
Francis Ford Coppola, maker of such films as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Apocalypse Now, in Details magazine on why movies aren’t as good as they used to be: “Essentially, the film industry is now the child of network television. The people that now run the studios have all been television executives and agents. So that same thing that produced the Vast Wasteland has now bought the movie industry. It’s formulization, McDonalds-ization. Don’t forget, television used to be a fertile place for writers, but it got neutralized.”
1992 December 10, “He blames TV”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, page 2ABut given the uneven balance of technological power, some fear that the newly available media would only reinforce the established roles and simply make the same old monologue louder. The result then might be a McDonalds-ization of Latin American culture.
1994 December 5, Fernando Gonzalez, “Flick of TV switch establishes shared memories”, in The Miami Herald, Miami, Fla., page 42SA, columns 1–2
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