Globalization in Hawaii

Globalization is the movement of people, ideas and capital across borders. Three different things happen when globalization occurs, which is Hybridization, Homogenization or Protection. Hybridizations means that it is a mix of two cultures, Homogenization means that they just become one culture and Protection is when people show how diverse they are or they build walls.
Start of Globalization
Genghis Khan, born Temujin created the great Mongol Empire . His empire was able to conquer the vast majority of Asia, the Middle East and some parts of Europe. As he began to conquer more land, it reduced the amount of borders around cities which made it easier and faster for trade, and the spread of ideas to occur. Genghis Khan would need to have an army in order for him to be able to take over many cities. The Mongol army was able to travel long distances because they would only take what they thought was necessary. Instead, the would bring Chinese engineers along with them during their journey. These Chinese engineers had the knowledge of how to build different machines such as the trebuchet, which was used to hurl heavy stones at walls in order for it to break it down. Having Chinese engineers be a part of his army would show that the Mongol army was not the traditional army that consisted of one culture. Instead, he had a hybrid army because he let people of other cultures join. Due to creating a hybrid army, he was able to seize cities faster. The Mongol empire had also created a passport of some sort that had allowed people to travel without fearing that someone would attack them. This passport was called the Khan’s pass and had allowed people to travel and be untouchable, because if someone were to attack them people would go after the attacker as if they had killed the Khan themselves.
Globalization can still be seen modern society today.
Examples of Hawaii Globalization
There are many examples of globalization in Hawaii.
* Eggs 'n Things: An eatery in Waikiki, Oahu is very popular amongst tourist and locals. It was first founded in 1974 by Jerry and Jan Fukunaga. When starting their business their main goals were to use fresh ingredients, keep reasonable prices and treat customers like ‘ohana (family). On the island of O’ahu, they currently have 3 locations . Eggs ‘n Things have been particularly popular within Japanese tourist, so popular that in Japan there are ten locations, and people are willing to wait in line for hours just to eat there. This shows globalization because they had taken something they had experienced in Hawaii and had taken it back to their own culture.
* McDonalds in Japan: They had created four new burgers, called the Hawaii burger, California burger, New York burger, and the Texas burger. All created from what the Japanese thought had represented those states. This shows globalization because they had taken food from other states to create something in their culture.
* Spam Musubi: This is a popular snack in Hawaii, but it had not been created from the Hawaiians. In fact nothing about the spam musubi is Hawaiian, it was created by plantation workers, that had brang rice to Hawaii since rice had been popular in Asia, where most of the plantation workers had come from. Its influences is from a Japanese sushi, called onigiri . Onigiri, which is also known as o-musubi, is made up of white rice that is formed into a triangular or circular shape and wrapped in nori and the The spam that is used in spam musubis is from Minnesota , but had been sold as cheap meat to the plantation workers, since they had not made a lot of money and could only afford canned meat.

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