d an immigrant aid society soon after graduation. Her position took her into the city's meanest slums, where she urged newly-arrived Russian Jews to "Americanize" and keep their small homes clean. Her commitment to cleanliness - a preoccupation of the Progressive movement , forged alongside a growing acceptance # Although considered one of the most successful fund-raising cookbooks in American history, The Settlement Cook Book emanated from Kander's efforts to Americanize Russian immigrant women through cooking classes," Angela Fritz wrote in a 2004 article for the Wisconsin Magazine of History . To Kander, # Americanization meant eating more red meat than fish; using brand-name processed foods; giving up Jewish dietary laws; garnishing plates with lettuce leaves and # can therefore begin to demand changes in their communities based on the evidence available. For example, 89 percent state that new immigrants must be Americanized - which means they must learn English and embrace American culture. Also, the majority of parents insist that they would be upset if their children # after World War II actively sought to immerse itself in the culture (especially the popular culture) of its triumphant occupiers, leading to a rapid “Americanization” period in which the media fantasies and material goods of the U.S. vision of the “good life” were prized above all. As Rikyo University law and # The Way We Ate: The Americanization of The State Dinner - NYTimes.com # The Way We Ate: The Americanization of The State Dinner # hnology sector, is a sign of something more distinctive,&8221; Mr. Kapur writes. &8220;It signals the latest episode in India’s remarkable process of Americanization.&8221; # Mr. Kapur concludes by saying, &8220;India&8217;s Americanization&8221; has been a &8220;wonderful thing&8221; as it has begun the &8220;process of dismantling an old and often repressive order.&8221; But he worries # "Fortnight"? "Bespoke"? Really? Actually, the British are the ones who have conniptions over foreign words. Whenever the British media run a piece on Americanisms, it gets hundreds or thousands of comments, most of them keening indignantly over the American corruption of English: "I cringe whenever I hear # emonstrativeness. But the Brits have had to endure an inundation of American popular culture that has saturated every corner of their vocabulary with Americanisms — probably including the word "Brits" itself. Not long ago, the Financial Times columnist Matthew Engel warned that if the flood of Americanisms isn't # theirs from Downton Abbey and Inspector Morse . And when they do send us an occasional blockbuster like Harry Potter , they're considerate enough to Americanize "dustbin" to "trash can" and "pinny" to "apron." No doubt some of the newcomers will wind up as naturalized American citizens. After all, "tiresome" # ps. Fortnight? Bespoke? Really? Actually, the British are the ones who have conniptions over foreign words. Whenever the British media run a piece on Americanisms, it gets hundreds or thousands of comments, most of them keening indignantly over the American corruption of English: I cringe whenever I hear someone # emonstrativeness. But the Brits have had to endure an inundation of American popular culture that has saturated every corner of their vocabulary with Americanisms - probably including the word Brits itself. Not long ago, the Financial Times columnist Matthew Engel warned that if the flood of Americanisms isn't # eirs from "Downton Abbey" and "Inspector Morse." And when they do send us an occasional blockbuster like "Harry Potter, they're considerate enough to Americanize dustbin to trash can and pinny(ph) to apron. No doubt some of the newcomers will wind up as naturalized American citizens. After all, tiresome and fed # and third-generation Chicagoans like Omar are reinforcing a link to their homelands that would otherwise be lost in the shuffle of acculturation and Americanization. Peyton said that this desire to uphold cultural traditions motivates many parents to enroll their children in a heritage language program.آ  “They # ation Americans may wish to embrace their ethnic heritage, like Kalaya, while some, like Omar, seek to distance themselves from it in favor of a more Americanized culture. “One really chooses what their identity is,â€‌ Peyton said.آ  “We all choose our connections.â€‌ # s: “Each American is educated by other Americans and he educates others in turn. Everywhere in New York, in colleges and beyond, there are courses in Americanization.” Existentialist anomie is prohibited: America is hyper-normative, producing citizen clones. # trated India's own booming technology sector, is a sign of something more distinctive. It signals the latest episode in India's remarkable process of Americanization. # This reconciliation -- this Americanization of India -- had both tangible and intangible manifestations. The tangible signs included an increase in the availability of American brands; a # But the intangible evidence of Americanization was even more remarkable. Something had changed in the very spirit of the country. The India in which I grew up was, in many respects, an isolated and # Hers is a lament -- against rapid development, against the brutality of modernity -- that I have heard with increasing frequency. India's Americanization has in so many ways been a wonderful thing. It has lifted millions from poverty, and, by seeding ideas of meritocracy and individual attainment into # This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: A photo caption with an opinion article about the Americanization of India last Sunday incorrectly identified the mall in the image. It was the Express Avenue mall in Chennai, not Mantri Square mall, which is in # The buzz over Burger King, however, is a rough indicator that for every French person who decries the Americanization of French culture there is another who embraces the country’s obsession with Americana, whether it comes in the form of fast food or Hollywood film # ells is the kind of art that generates profit. It’s a terrible fodder turned into a machine for generating profit. What we see now is the world being Americanized, the profitability principle, expanded. It’s caught up even with Russia which is however trying to resist it. We don’t want to see any further # Americanization, but are no revisionists either – we aren’t calling people to going back to the Stone Age, to isolation, to an ethnographic museum type of life. Or to # ons essays is particular to our readers abroad (the last of his seven tips is &8220;When applying to schools in the United States, don’t try to &8216;Americanize&8217; your application by focusing on your trip to the United States&8221;), most of what he suggests is entirely relevant to American readers. # Greece’s New Americanized Health Care System # Greece’s New Americanized Health Care System # best in the world – even though every international study disproves this claim – the Greek people are horrified with that they now have to deal with: Americanized healthcare. # That’s why we should all be paying close attention to how the Greek people handle their new Americanized healthcare system, because it will give us a clue as to what we as Americans, living in the wealthiest nation on the planet, should be demanding from # nal identity that bears the markers of all those that constitute it. On the surface, this seems like an alright idea. But ultimately, this process of Americanization creates an ethnocentric worldview where a certain idea of what an American is and how an American acts becomes the norm, and in that way those that # anity; this is due to a desire to include everyone. The grand holiday in December is a mixture of Pagan traditions, the legacy of Saint Nicholas, and Americanization such as fat Santa and Black Friday. Many people of all religions come to settle in the United States and celebrate the winter holiday. Whether you # ns of this world? And these issues aren’t just limited to Americans. We talk about globalisation. But the reality is, we’re talking about Americanisation. The world is becoming Americanised. I’m sitting at Starbucks in a mall right now, sipping my tall-skinny-vanilla-latte, while listening to # day, so many Muslims are going through what I am going through, without ever having stepped foot in America. We don’t have to be American to be Americanised. And we don’t have to be Americanised to struggle as Muslims in a world where religion is seen as backward. Where modernity and civilisation # s regarding the lack of positive or even neutral Muslim presence in mainstream Western media and the impact that this can have in our Youth given the Americanization of international culture. I can only hope and pray that this movie is not an anomaly but signals a change, even if slight it may be. # Americanization or Globalization? | Global Envision # Americanization or Globalization? # on or inhibition of authentic local cultures. This brings me to the gist of my submission. At a closer look, globalization is slowly shifting towards Americanization. Have you heard the word "Americanization"? Well in the early 1900's Americanization meant taking new immigrants and turning them into Americans...# cola (Pepsi and Coca Cola products) to nearly every country on earth. The song Amerika by the German rock band Rammstein is often seen as a satire of Americanization. It has received mixed reviews: some perceive it as anti-American, others as being opposed to globalization. The band views it as a satirical # ike Thomas Friedman see it. In a recent column describing why terrorists hate the United States, Friedman wrote: "...globalization is in so many ways Americanization: globalization wears Mickey Mouse ears, it drinks Pepsi and Coke, eats Big Macs, does its computing on an IBM laptop with Windows 98. Many societies # orld seems to be following Uncle Sam (U.S.A) and leaving behind its authentic ways of life. This has not spared even the ‘air tight' Chinese society. Americanization is the contemporary term used for the influence the United States of America has on the culture of other countries, substituting their culture with # How Are We Being Americanized? # an culture has been mainly through several conduits with the number one medium being the electronic media. Television in particular has done a lot in Americanizing those who view images especially from Hollywood. The guys in Hollywood have made us to adore the tough cigar-smoking guys in the Casinos, the thin # l Kora awards held annually in South Africa. Many countries have also gone a head to construct theme parks basing on the American Disney World model. Americanization has also led to the popularity and acceptability of what is known as American English. I have seen many posters here in Rwanda of schools claiming to # mericans. The world also seems to be clamouring for more of the Yankee lifestyle. However simply dismissing -- or demonizing -- globalization as mere Americanization is misleading. Globalization has the ability to alter much more than just the movies or food consumed by a society. And the results can be powerfully # To read another Global Envision article about globalization and American culture, see Americanization vs. Globalization . # Keywords: popular culture , globalization , Americanization , American culture , America # I strogly belive that the word Globalization should change to Americanization. # lt who has been in this country, for example, for twenty out of the twenty-five years of her life and who has gone through an irreversible process of Americanization. That person is nothing but an American in terms of her national identity. He understands what it would mean to that person to be expelled from the # "In a sense," writes scholar Bernd Brunner in his compact cultural history of the holiday icon, "the Americanization of the 'German' Christmas tree runs parallel to the Americanization of German immigrants." # Critic's Notebook; Haunting Cannes: The Monster Americanization - New York Times # Movies COLLECTIONS > BARTON FINK Critic's Notebook; Haunting Cannes: The Monster Americanization By VINCENT CANBY Published: May 23, 1991 # carries implications that reach far beyond Cannes. It represents what many film makers interpret as an important stand against the homogenization, or Americanization, of European cinema. The further economic integration of the European Community next year is expected to result in an increasing number of mass-market # The Americanization of Video Europe - New York Times # Business Day COLLECTIONS > TELEVISION The Americanization of Video Europe Published: February 27, 1994 # Americanization Of a Film Festival - New York Times # Movies COLLECTIONS > CHINESE FILMS Americanization Of a Film Festival By JOHN TAGLIABUE Published: September 06, 1995 # The Americanization Ideal - New York Times # Opinion COLLECTIONS > IMMIGRATION POLICY The Americanization Ideal By Barbara Jordan Published: September 11, 1995 # onal principles. People from an extraordinary range of ethnic and religious backgrounds have embraced these ideals. There is a word for this process: Americanization. That word earned a bad reputation when it was stolen by racists and xenophobes in the 1920's. But it is our word, and we are taking it back. # Americanization means becoming a part of the polity -- becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot; we are a kaleidoscope, # The Americanization of an Offbeat Player - New York Times # Sports COLLECTIONS > ZIGMUND PALFFY The Americanization of an Offbeat Player By JASON DIAMOS Published: December 10, 1996 # alization gives them both the added incentive to hate America and the added power to do something about it. That is, globalization is in so many ways Americanization: globalization wears Mickey Mouse ears, it drinks Pepsi and Coke, eats Big Macs, does its computing on an I.B.M. laptop with Windows 98. Many # Thinking Ahead / Commentary - 'Americanization' Has Its Limits - NYTimes.com # Thinking Ahead / Commentary : 'Americanization' Has Its Limits # One of the most frequent complaints about globalization is that it is equivalent to Americanization. There are widespread fears that in today's borderless, high-tech world, national differences will be overwhelmed by American economic and cultural # ces and promoting the use of English to plug into the global economy. Even in France, the country that has probably taken the strongest stand against Americanization, many major multinational companies use English as a working language. # One of the prime symbols of Americanization, Coca-Cola Co., according to reports last week, is planning to decentralize its international marketing to give local tastes and local brands a larger # A French entrepreneur who used to complain of the Americanization of France now gleefully cites evidence of the "Latinization" of the United States. In all the talk of the spread of American culture, it is often # Because of the increasing diversity of American society, Americanization today does not mean the same as it would have, say, just after World War II. Immigration into the United States is helping to make globalization a two-# d an immigrant-aid society soon after graduation. Her position took her into the city's meanest slums, where she urged newly arrived Russian Jews to "Americanize" and keep their small homes clean. Her commitment to cleanliness—a preoccupation of the Progressive movement, forged alongside a growing # "Although considered one of the most successful fundraising cookbooks in American history, The Settlement Cook Book emanated from Kander's efforts to Americanize Russian immigrant women through cooking classes," Click|keyword[Angela+Fritz]" >Angela Fritz wrote in a 2004 article for Wisconsin Magazine of History # . To Kander, Americanization meant eating more red meat than fish, using brand-name processed foods, giving up Jewish dietary laws, garnishing plates with lettuce leaves and # Founded in 1923 by the Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Wesley Methodist Church in Morgantown, began by helping with the “Americanization" of newly arrived immigrants by promoting English literacy, citizenship, hygiene and other basic life skills. Services have evolved over the past # engaging ecotourism. Panama offers travelers a distinct blend of wildlife, indigenous culture, colonial occupation and pirate history with a dash of “Americanization” which makes the country extremely traveler-friendly. # of the restaurant business in New York City and now they hope to introduce more true Chinese cooking to visitors to the Hot Pot. They understand the Americanization of much of the Chinese restaurant food in the United States, but they hope to serve more real Chinese cuisine to local diners. “We want to focus on # tor of the Plimoth Plantation museum, told The Christian Science Monitor in 2002. “In the 19th and 20th centuries, Thanksgiving was really a tool for Americanization amid the great influx of immigration. It was supposed to bind this diverse population into one union.” The nation’s most recent presidential election, # The Atlantic | June 1958 | Is France Being Americanized? | Emmanuel # Is France Being Americanized? # ical, as centuries in their fifties start to be. Vastly prejudiced essayists&8212;they are the best in any case&8212;began to analyze the concept of "Americanization." It turned out to be a very unpleasant monster, hardly recognizable for anyone who had lived a normal and decent life in the U.S.A. Americanization, # thout noticing the imperceptible process, the French would become neo-Americans. For the sake of our national pride, we accepted a minor reservation: Americanization, though inescapable, would proceed more slowly in France than in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, England, and generally all Western European countries. # Returning travelers used to say ironically, five or six years ago: "Zurich is quite Americanized" or "Essen is a Middle-Western city." But, thank God, there were no snack bars in France, for "snacks would be the beginning of the end." Now there # For such people, to whom American methods are well known and who admire the way American specialists are integrated into political life, Americanization means first of all simplification. Young technicians&8212;future engineers or civil servants&8212;travel a good deal nowadays. For the last ten years, # During the dark days of Budapest, the bulk of French public opinion woke up to that unity of purpose. Since then, anti-Americanism has quieted down, though it still exists potentially&8212;as a symbol of ultranationalism. Whether the last American loan had political implications, # Copyright © 1958 by Pierre Emmanuel. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly ; June 1958; Is France Being Americanized?; Volume 201, No. 6; page 35. # Third, a redoubled emphasis on the importance of Americanization. Yes, that word conjures up images of 19th-century busybodies trying to Anglicize Italians, Jews, and other non-WASPs. But properly understood, # Americanization  -- ensuring that a diverse new generation buys into the content of our national creed  -- remains a vital, necessary endeavor. We need to recommit to # n that Washington is trying to encircle them economically—a trade and investment echo of U.S. security policy. The Japanese see it as leading to “the Americanization of their economy,” as a commentator recently put it. Most other Asians think similarly: The TTP, they argue, is intended to impose American-style # n that Washington is trying to encircle them economically—a trade and investment echo of U.S. security policy. The Japanese see it as leading to “the Americanization of their economy,” as a commentator recently put it. Most other Asians think similarly: The TTP, they argue, is intended to impose American-style # The holiday lost its significance entirely for some time, overwhelmed by Americanization. # cal man from Surrey laments the loss of the holiday, as it is overrun by what he terms the “rubbish American holiday” of Halloween, con- firming that Americanization is still occurring. The trend seems to be that the tradition is fading in favor of Halloween, making a lot of tradi- tionalists feel regret for the # n &34;Rumsfeld Rules,&34; in the Dec. 31 issue of National Review To boldly go &34;In the shows from the &39;60s, globalization takes the form of the Americanization of the world. &39;Gilligan&39;s Island,&39; for instance, suggests that you can take a representative group of Americans, drop them anywhere on the # American-made movies, music, television shows and pop icons are said to litter the globe, disrupting cultural ecosystems and Americanizing (read: corrupting) impressionable minds. The effects are everywhere. # &8220;No American artifact will &8216;Americanize&8217; a foreign user any more than playing a Japanese-produced video game will make you Asian,&8221; Mr. Freund argues. &8220;It&8217;s preposterous.&# Now that&8217;s Americanization. # debate in New Mexico, for example, Mr. Kerry said: &8220;We should not send more American troops. That would be the worst thing. We do not want more Americanization. We do not want a greater sense of American occupation.&8221; # matsu, 75, poetically documented his times &8212; traditional Japan before the war, shocked Japanese after the A-bomb attacks, the mixed blessings of Americanization. # The artist&8217;s disdain for Americans is evident in the &8220;Americanization&8221; section of the exhibit, but his series &8220;Chewing Gum and Chocolate,&8221; which focuses on Americans settling into life in Japan, is one of # The Jordan commission&8217;s report emphasized &8220;effective Americanization of new immigrants, that is the cultivation of a shared commitment to the American values of liberty, democracy and equal opportunity,&8221; including # while, has worked to reach out to the Somali communities, in an effort to counter the radicalization of the youth. The report also points to an &8220;Americanization&8221; of the leadership of al Qaeda and its allied groups, noting that radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who had links with suspects in the failed Times # y Productions -- son Kris wrote the script, mom Bonnie directs and paterfamilias Nigel turns up in a video cameo -- “Snow White” seeks to Americanize the essentials of the panto tradition. Current-day song hits intertwine with frolicsome choreography (courtesy of Spencer Liff) and shrewd # can therefore begin to demand changes in their communities based on the evidence available. For example, 89 percent state that new immigrants must be Americanized - which means they must learn English and embrace American culture. Also, the majority of parents insist that they would be upset if their children # tinues with their latest loss Matee Ajavon came to the United States in 1992 at the age of six, and after almost 20 years, says she's pretty “Americanized” by this point. Born in Liberia, the Mystics guard is about to complete her fourth season in the WNBA, but it's a bittersweet one for Ajavon. # ahmod — was killed in attacks blamed on family members, reportedly for refusing an Islamic marriage, dating a non-Muslim, or becoming &8220;too Americanized.&8221; The Semin and Mahmod deaths ended in murder convictions; the Saids and the Almaleki cases have murder charges pending against the fathers, # NYC Mosque Imam Looking to "Americanize Islam" - CBS News # er subscriptions Update my e-mail address Change my password Log Out CBS/AP / August 23, 2010, 11:05 AM NYC Mosque Imam Looking to "Americanize Islam" The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks said Friday he has been working on a way to "# Americanize Islam." While he did not elaborate on what an American version of Islam might look like, he did note that different interpretations of the faith have # cathedral. link icon report icon email icon AmazingGrce says: The Snake - sung by Al Wilson - Comes to mind when I hear about any effort to "Americanize Islam" # Don&8217;t Pick On Immigrants: Re-Americanize Everyone | TIME.com # Don&8217;t Pick On Immigrants: Re-Americanize Everyone # More than ever today, we need to re-Americanize Americans. We need a movement – for native-born citizens and newcomers alike; adults as much as children – to reanimate our creed, cultivate character # Creed. To be Americanized is first to be immersed in the tenets of our democratic faith, expressed in seminal texts, speeches, and stories, from Jefferson’s time to our own. It # religion and our very imperfect union? Certainly. But our country is unique in that it measures its worth by naming, and ever narrowing, that gap. To Americanize means to build a culture of song, story, and scene around this fact. The patriotic pageants of yore didn’t acknowledge the creative tension between # In the end, a new Americanization movement can’t just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, # which we convey in our habits. Of course, Americanization can be abused and co-opted by those with a narrow, even racist idea of America. That’s what happened a century ago during the last push to Americanize # Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf wants to 'Americanize' Islam - NY Daily News # Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf wants to 'Americanize' Islam # y the Bureau of International Information Programs was scheduled long before the Park51 controversy began. Rauf also discussed his work on trying to "Americanize Islam," though he did not say what he hopes it would look like. "The same principles and rituals were everywhere, but what happened in different # Americanize America&039;s Immigrants | Conservative News, Views & Books # Americanize America&8217;s Immigrants # nternational airports that replaced Ellis Island? Whether this parade should be accelerated, slowed, or stopped, America’s immigrants should be Americanized. # GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said last month that he wants to see “Americanization as part of immigration .” Once our dangerously unguarded boarders are tightened &8212; through low-tech fencing to high-tech surveillance tools &# As Americanization advocate John Fonte suggests, the Bush Administration immediately should reverse President Clinton’s Executive Order No. 11366. It requires that # This is “Americanization,” an admirable term every American should applaud. America revolves not around common blood or collective faith, but communal beliefs. Those who # Is there a need to Americanize Modern Olympics? - Rawlins Times: Columns: dough hecox, rawlins, carbon county, wyoming, olympics # Is there a need to Americanize Modern Olympics? - Rawlins Times: Columns: dough hecox, rawlins, carbon county, wyoming, olympics # Is there a need to Americanize Modern Olympics? # Is there a need to Americanize Modern Olympics? # U.S. has no plan to Americanize Somalia conflict # U.S. has no plan to "Americanize" Somalia conflict # es on Friday denied coordinating plans by Somalia's embattled government to launch an offensive against Islamist fighters, saying it had no plans to "Americanize" the conflict. #