Musings on Globalization

I was talking with my cousin Caesar on facebook yesterday. He is a senior at Northwestern and is studying abroad in Ecuador for this semester. He was saying that although he loves the food in Ecuador that is available on the street, he still cannot avoid such places like McDonalds and KFC, American fast food places. Its crazy to me that American fast-food companies have managed to creep there way onto virtually every part of the globe. Especially in a country (like Ecuador) which has amazing local food…McDonalds (or McDo, as the French call it and use that to make fun of Americans) seems a bit trite, and evil…in a really obscure use of the word.