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p2pnet.net News:- The web site for Ronald McDonald’s favourite eatery in China was hacked on Christmas Day and the Golden Arches replaced with a “head of death,” says ChinaNewsDaily.
“In the country selection areas of McDonald’s website, there is no item for all of China and there are separate selections for Taiwan and Hong Kong,” says the story.
The site also carried a message claiming ‘Chinese Hacker’ was was outraged by McDonald’s listing of Taiwan as an independent nation, it adds.
“McDonald’s triumphed - in a cultural zone where many adults think fried beef patties taste bizarre - by catering to China’s pampered only children, the so-called little emperors and empresses,” said James L. Watson as the Sign of the Flying Bum (as my daughter calls it ; ) appeared in China.
Watson is Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and editor of Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia.
“The ‘Golden Arches’ have become part of the landscape of Beijing and Hong Kong,” Watson states, asking: “But is McDonald’s trampling local culture in the name of a bland, homogeneous world order? Not really. Global capitalism pushes one way, and local consumers push right back.”
He concludes, “We purvey a culture based on mass entertainment and mass gratification….The cultural message we transmit through Hollywood and McDonald’s goes out across the world to capture, and also to undermine, other societies…. Unlike traditional conquerors, we are not content merely to subdue others: We insist that they be like us.”
JN
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See:-
head of death - Hacker Attacks McDonald’s Website For Listing Taiwan As Independent, ChinaNewsDaily, December 27, 2004
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