Sunday, May 19, 2013

KFC Cartel?

So there is a demand for the Colonel's recipe. It's not in the United States.
It is in Gaza. Sounding like the procedure to get a bowl of soup from the Soup Nazi, the process has some rules. It will cost you some money also.

The fast food delights that are available to us in the United States are unlike that of other countries. In Gaza, there are few if any fast food choices. In this area of the world, what happens to mom and pop restaurants if Fast Food moves in? What are the implications for a culture?

There are already implications and new restaurants are not in the country yet. If you want it and can afford it, it will get to you.  Sounds like something that happens in the United States, except in the US it is usually not fast food, but some other drug or drug like action. This value of instant gratification is usually a bad thing in the US. What would the addition of this value to Gaza do to it's culture? That is already being seen in this one example. Some may call it progress, some may see it negatively. It seems by definition it is cultural pluralism. The problem with this definition is that it implies a dominant culture and a minority culture. Which culture is which in this example? So many other thoughts...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/may/19/kfc-smugglers-of-gaza

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