Seducing The French Essays - American Culture, Americanization

Seducing The French Charles Law As I sit outside my favorite caf?, drinking wine as the sun slowly dies off into the twilight of dusk, I hear the most obnoxious noise. It is a few teenagers trying to speak their best English. I watch them for a few minutes, and I am disgusted. If these children represent the future, I weep. I see a whole generation with no direction, no true love of their beautiful country, no nationalism in them. Instead they wear blue jeans, and drink that despicable liquid called ?Coca-Cola'. These younger generations are imitating a society across an ocean. I see restaurants grilling up American cuisine's and California wines. Youths are wearing American brand clothing, and traveling to America to tour their commercialism empire. Why are they doing this? Simple, Americanization. Americanization is happening all around us, not just to our children who are emptying into the streets speaking with their best James Dean. American thought has crept into our very lives with everything we do; our day to day routine is now being controlled by American ideals. Every French citizen is falling into the clutches of consumerism and conformity. We are turning into a trinket society, worshipping of a mammon, and witnessing to the death of our beloved culture. I shed a tear to think we are turning into a materialistic society like that of America where as whose society is dynamic and derived from consumer-driven economic growth. In falling into consumerism we are generating an endless increase of desires that can not b satisfied by the means that which we live in France. This lifestyle alienates the consumer to form bondage around them; it does not free them. The society in America is of destruction, not to be to be idolized. The waste of their mass consumption not only drains their national resources but those of deprived countries as well. Our on consumption does not stop with the caf?'s or the stores where we buy our food, but goes deeper into our society. American business has taken away our identity buying trying to get onto our economy and setting the standard for us. America is crawling into our society not only by food and movies but also through our economy, and businesses. Look at Frigidaire, Remington Rand-France and Simca, all three of them are foreign owned, or actually U.S. owned and two of them received massive layoffs, without notice, with no help in finding another job. We need to curb this foreign investment of French businesses and economy, it is our economy, let us control it. We should be weary of American investors, they are so big and overwhelming to our homeland producer's competition is impossible. As America comes into France and takes over the manufacturing industry they are helping our economic growth. The size of these companies are so enormous that their ability to sustain economic depressio n is in not question. The question should be, with America's ability to produce money and buy each other out buy ruthless takeovers acquiring 51% of their stock, what happens when companies get bought out? Then what, as we have learned from past American companies, lay-off's happen without a thought to the employee. We are not looking to get rid of foreigners, or what they bring to the table, what I think we should look to do is control. I believe that we need to regulate and control the availability of investments to Americans'. It is in America's best interest to take over French industry, and control its industry. They are afraid of us as a super power. They wish to control all our industry including those for our national defense so the can sit don and tell us what to do from a boardroom across the Atlantic. The overseers of the French population, those who across the ocean and say they do everything with a clear conscience have since barred an important technology from coming to France. These high tech products would help with our national defense, in the nuclear arms race, but America would fear us too much so they keep us in the dark to protect themselves from a country that can live without a dying passion to consume every little gadget