What does McDonald's Mean?
Reflections after a trip to South America.
Something happens to a country when it gets its first McDonald’s. There was once something called the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention. The journalist Thomas Friedman defined it in 1996: “No two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other.” The theory has been disproven many times over. No one takes it seri…
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