Mmm, globalization
Amy posted today about the globalization of America, as reflected in her fridge.
I had a similar thought today. I needed a new chair for my office, so a coworker and I made an afternoon Ikea run, stopping for lunch along the way.
We drove my German car, assembled in Mexico, to a Vietnamese restaurant where we ate lunch while listening to a Latino singer, on our way to a Swedish furniture store, to buy a chair that was made in China. We put the chair in my office- did I mention that our company is Dutch?
It made me smile. I enjoy being part of this aggregation of cultures and economies. The nice thing about being an American, I guess, is that we don’t feel any tug of a culture to maintain the purity of- our culture is mostly a collection of stuff we decided to keep from the various immigrant groups who have come to be part of it.