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  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Lexus and the Olive Tree

    The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that posits that the world is currently undergoing two struggles: the drive for prosperity and development, symbolized by the Lexus LS, and the desire to retain identity and traditions, symbolized by the olive tree.

    [...]

    Golden Arches theory

    The book puts forward a capitalist peace theory, first published as an opinion piece in The New York Times in December 1996, called the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention; although slightly tongue-in-cheek, it states:

    No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's.

      • Gosplan14 [any]
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        2 years ago

        Actually there was one. It got abandoned by the time the DPR declared indipendence and eventually some people made a bootleg McDonald's ("DonMak") in the same building