Chapter 928, Cultural Imperialism(1/2)
The data collection work does not require too many people, but all the Arctic Fox team members are in Mexico. In addition to looking for places to hide black money, they also have to be ready to support and protect Nanyi's team.
The guns and cannons rang for more than half an hour, and finally the support of Sinaloa drug trafficking arrived. The Tijuana group left behind more than a dozen bodies, and the others fought and retreated. During the retreat, several more bodies were left behind. A battle ended.
Before the battle ended, Nan Yi and the others had already made their turn. Edise Gonzalez was responsible for ordering the dishes. A plate of lightly fried and slightly spicy local yellow peppers, and the oil tofu was finely broken and stuffed into shrimp meat. The boneless chicken puree was filled with chicken skin and then roasted out of the oven.
Eddie Gonzalez also ordered a fish belly soup, and the pike's belly was supplemented with shredded cabbage, quail eggs, and slightly chewy fish internal organs. It has to be said that the chef at Longlou Restaurant is quite exquisite in cooking.
Nanyi ordered a bowl of rice, Eddis Gonzalez ordered a tortilla, and the two of them filled their stomachs beautifully, and went to a big bar that mainly entertained American tourists.
Originally, Nanyi wanted to go to a small bar with a richer Mexican style, but Eddis Gonzalez told him that those small bars usually have gunmen entrenched there, not necessarily drug dealers or gangsters, but most people would carry guns.
The name of the bar is revelry, which is translated directly into Chinese as carnival, but when Nan Yi is immersed in it for two or three minutes, he felt that it was more appropriate to translate it into "seeking joy and having fun".
It was wild, there was no dance floor in the bar, and there were dance floors everywhere. Because of the heat, girls of all styles broke free from the constraints of their clothes and twisted their bodies everywhere. Time was chaotic. Some people showed six:30, some were nine:30, and some were eleven:30.
Indulge, the bar is large, and most of it is open air, not completely visible. There are many accessories and green plants that block the view. In the hazy place of the sight, there are always two or more commotional souls intertwined together.
Lawless, drugs are placed on the table openly, either exclusively, forget each other, or in groups, from slight poison to severe poison.
Nan Yi sprinkled a little crystal clear and slightly white particles on the tiger's mouth, picked up the lemon slice on the wine glass and sandwiched it between the ring finger and middle finger, picked up the wine glass and touched Eddie Gonzalez. His tongue was about to lick the tiger's mouth, but Eddie Gonzalez said to Nan Yi: "Exchange."
“Ok.”
The two approached each other, Nan Yi licked Edison Gonzalez's tiger mouth, and Edison Gonzalez licked Nan Yi's tiger mouth, and then they took the glass together and drank the wine in the glass, then bit each other's lemon slices between each other's fingers.
After drinking a cup of tequila, Nan Yi and the others looked at each other and smiled, a sense of pleasure arose.
Putting down the empty glass, the two of them came to the edge of the swimming pool with beer and sat on the ground. Eddis Gonzalez was wearing only a white T-shirt with orange edges on his upper body, denim shorts on his lower body, and a pair of sandals on his feet. He casually soaked his feet in the water and fiddled with water.
Nan Yi was wearing special combat boots on his feet and tactical jeans. He could not do it in the same way, but could only sit cross-legged like he entered a meditation.
On the left side of Nan Yi, another pair of men and women sat with their lips together, making beautiful brushing sounds from time to time; on the right side, they were just a couple, and when they were in such an environment, they were blessed by a cup of agave, and the secretion of hormones was greatly accelerated.
When the veneer dance music "chihuahua" sounded in the bar, Nanyi and Dis Gonzalez naturally blended in and danced to the music.
The veneer dance is very popular in Mexico. Nanyi has seen many videos on short video platforms, and the Mexican women in the video are basically slightly fat or just fat, with very few slim ones.
In terms of video shooting or transporting, Mexico is a country where fat is the beauty, but according to Nanyi's understanding, this is not the case. Mexico can only say that it does not discriminate against obesity, but does not regard obesity as beauty.
"Eddies, do Mexicans like your figure the most?" Shaking his body, Nan Yi was about to relieve the doubts in his heart.
Eddis Gonzalez raised his head leaning against Nanyi's shoulder and said, "Mexican men don't like women being too thin, nor do they like women being too fat. They like where they should be thin, and where they should have meat must have meat."
“Mexican women are much thinner or fatter?”
"When you are young, you will have a good figure. After the age of 35, many women start to gain weight."
“May people race or dietary reasons?”
Eddis Gonzalez thought for a while and said, "It should be because of the race. The traditional Mexican diet mainly includes corn cakes, corn dumplings, corn broth, beans, potatoes, cactus and other crude fiber foods. Although I like to eat sugar, due to the limitations of conditions, only a small number of people can eat sugar at any time."
"oh."
Edison Gonzalez mentioned "sugar", which gave Nan Yi a little association and inspiration.
On August 12 last year, the United States, Canada and Mexico signed a comprehensive trade agreement between the three countries, namely the North American Free Trade Agreement.
After the agreement came into effect, Mexico's export of fresh fruits and vegetables to the United States increased significantly, while high-calorie and high-sugar processed foods continued to flow from the United States to Mexico. Scarlett Grain Group exported more than 1,700 tons of various primary sugars to Mexico in the second half of last year.
Also last year, Cooper Galans, president of Wanderford, proposed that Wanderford would enter the Mexican market, saying that he was optimistic about the prospects of the Mexican Western fast food industry. The reason he put forward was that with the development of the Mexican economy, the increase in population and the accelerated urbanization speed will prompt changes in the Mexican dietary structure.
Because the Mexican government's subsidies to farmers are too low, small agricultural cultivation cannot bring good living conditions. More and more Mexican farmers do not want to face the loess and face the sky for the rest of their lives. They will be more inclined to go to the city to work. This eventually leads to fewer and fewer people farming in Mexico, and gradually there will be food shortages and a situation of relying on imports.
Mexican farmers who go to the city to work, because they engage in more physical work and their income level is not too high, they will choose to match fast food and beverages with relatively low prices in terms of their diet.
According to Mexico's current agricultural pattern, as long as a small amount of staple food crops will increase prices in a limited manner, and other crops will be stimulated by good export channels, and prices will soar in a very short period of time.
Of course, the price surge is not just because of supply and demand. In fact, the benefits of certain areas of Mexican agriculture will promote the growth of ambitions of fertilizers, pesticides and seed companies, and the benefits are equal. When crop prices rise, you cannot just eat more in the planting process.
Fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, planting, and sales are grasshoppers strung on a rope. The days of the other links are not easy to live, so don’t think about it. The days of the planting are better, and the days of the other links must be better; on the contrary, the days of the planting are not easy to live, and the days of the other links must be better.
The rope is vertical and the planting is hung at the bottom. Once there is a problem with the major agricultural market, everyone will vote to cut the rope on the planting head. In short, when a farmer smiles on his face, the other links must at least be mould on sunny days and use US dollars to light cigarettes.
Nanyi reversed the known sales of fat as beauty and the considerable sales of Mexican Coke, which shows that the Mexican dietary structure revolution should have been quite successful in the previous life.
"Sorry, leave for a while."
Nan Yi let go of Edise Gonzalez's hands, exited the spontaneous dance floor, walked to a quiet remote corner, his mind turned, and began to have a bit of messy thoughts.
After a while, Nan Yi started calling again.
"Cooper, I need to know the strategic trends of Mexico for all fast food companies in the United States."
"Shatis, send me a list of the latest development trends of global fertilizer and pesticide companies, mainly targeting the South American market, and Mexico is the focus."
"Rachel, let our Coca-Cola director representative ask about Coca-Cola's latest development strategy, yes, about Mexico."
After making the phone call, Nan Yi continued to figure out his thoughts.
Herbert Schuler, an emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego, mentioned and interpreted "cultural imperialism" for the first time in his book "Communication and Cultural Domination" in 1976.
In the decades after World War II, nearly 100 regions separated from Western colonial rule established emerging nation-states, but the vast majority of these countries still rely heavily on a few advanced capitalist countries economically and culturally.
In terms of communication and culture, several large Western news agencies dominated the circulation and interpretation of global information, and American Hollywood films swept the markets of most emerging countries. There was a serious imbalance in international cultural exchanges, and the cultural development space of emerging countries was severely squeezed.
Xu Le studied this phenomenon in his book "Mass Communication and the American Empire" and criticized the control of emerging nation-states in the United States' mass communication policies and structure.
In the book "Dissemination and Cultural Domination", Xu Le begins by saying that his research is based on Yin Manuel Wallerstein's theory of modern world system.
He believes that Wallerstein's view has three key points. The first is that the logic of capitalism's pursuit of maximizing profits is the primary entry point; the second is that there is a hierarchical structure between countries; the third is that the exploitation relationship of this hierarchical structure is three levels, namely the center, the semi-frontier and the frontier.
Xu Le once said: "I think that today's cultural imperialism can be understood through these key points. The cultural ‘communication department’ of the world system must be linked to the entire system and develop together, and promote the purpose and goals of the entire system.
Therefore, the presentation of culture and information, generally, although not entirely, is determined by the same market momentum that controls the production of goods and services that control the entire system."
Xuer believes that cultural imperialism is a comprehensive and historical phenomenon that covers all aspects of life that contain media information; the concentrated topic of cultural imperialism research is not the homogeneity of information interpretation or the general cultural consumption, but the inequality structure of international cultural production and circulation, and how a new form of transnational domination has been formed to expand and strengthen a new form of transnational domination.
In short, cultural imperialism is the sum of many processes.
Through these processes, a society is absorbed into the modern world system, and the ruling class of that society is attracted, coerced, forced, and sometimes bribed, so that the social institutions they have created adapt to, and even promote the various values and structures of countries that rank at the core and dominant positions in the world system.
Cultural imperialism is defined by different scholars as economic first or cultural first, and culture is the "cultural imperialism" that tends to assist economic and politics in dominating.
The former defines cultural imperialism in this way: using political and economic power to promote and popularize various values and habits of foreign cultures, but local culture is sacrificed.
The latter believes that cultural imperialism refers to: the Western ruling class conducts cultural infiltration and control of the people in order to reshape the values, behavioral methods, social systems and identities of the oppressed people, and make them obey the interests and goals of the imperialist ruling class.
Some scholars believe that there are three ways of cultural infiltration of cultural imperialism:
1. At the theoretical level, implement humanities, philosophy, and social science theories based on Western-centrism, and promote Western social systems and values.
2. At the mass cultural level, they spread their culture through various cultural media, such as through television, books, publications, and advertisements, so that the general public can hear and see it.
3. Make a big fuss about cultural material products and daily necessities such as people's food, clothing, housing and transportation, so that people's environment and lifestyle westernize.
Nan Yi has learned about the theory of cultural imperialism, and he has drawn parts that are useful to him and the Nan family. Western countries, especially the United States, are using their powerful soft power to export Western food culture to the world.
American culture, in short, is mass consumer culture, and consumers focus on convenience in obtaining goods and services.
American culture has penetrated this convenience everywhere, such as cars, fast food, TV, sports programs, and this convenience has led to an unhealthy lifestyle. European countries have more diverse and balanced eating methods, and they do not emphasize convenience in life, so Europeans are far healthier than Americans.
The rise of Western fast food culture is in line with the interests of Shennong Nan Grain and Wangdefu. The sluggish world's grain prices forced Shennong Nan Grain to target profitable channels in the futures market. The widespread dissemination of fast food culture can allow Shennong Nan Grain to process primary agricultural products into industrialized commodities and then sell them, obtaining more profits, and also making Wandefu's market wider.
At the same time, an unhealthy diet will lead to an increasing number of obese people. Obesity will lead to obesity syndrome, which will benefit the layout of biopharmaceuticals and Nan's in the medical field.
If Mexico's political and economic environment allows, Nanyi plans to adjust Mexico's investment strategy, from fragmentation to systematization, and in line with the changes in Mexico's dietary structure to make industrial layout. He no longer regards Mexico as the back garden of American industries, but is a relatively independent Mexican industrial system.
Nan Yi called Scarlett and told her thoughts. Scarlett proposed to give the Intelligence Policy Committee a few days to rediscuss and adjust the Mexican strategy. Nan Yi happily agreed.
After Nan Yi and Scarlett finished their phone call, they called Ye Feim Zelman, the president of Danshui Group, and asked him to instruct the Danshui Research Institute to start a research project on drinking water in Mexico. He wanted to know the actual situation of drinking water in various parts of Mexico.
Although this kind of data can be easily obtained from the official channels of Mexico, the official Mexico has long been labeled as "untrustworthy" by Nanyi. Using the data they summarized as a reference for formulating strategies, it is easy to fall apart.
"Hi, you bastard!"
As a woman's angry scolding sounded, a messy footsteps followed, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.
Nan Yi looked back and saw that he was a little unconscious. He knew that Angelina Jolie, who had just been fed, was pressed to the ground by the fairy and could not move.
"Let her go..."
Before Nan Yi finished speaking, the tiger cub shouted loudly: "Warning."
Karakala, for a while, the sound of bullets loading and dense footsteps, the security guards moved closer to Nanyi. Before the warning formation was set, two rapid m1911 shooting sounds came into Nanyi's ears.
"Action of revenge, withdraw."
As his body was pressed down, Nan Yi looked in the direction of the gunshot. He saw a dark-skinned Mexican riding on a man, holding an ice cone in his hand and quickly inserted it into the ground. He lifted it back and forth, and the rider was obviously already dead, and his intention to vent his anger was clearly visible.
Nan Yi was escorted into the car parked outside the bar, and Eddis Gonzalez was not forgotten by the bodyguard. She was also escorted out. Tianxian also brought an oil bottle, and she brought Angelina Jolie out.
After the car drove out, Nan Yi teased Eddis Gonzalez again: "It's safe?"
Eddies Gonzalez rolled his eyes to Nan Yi, and did not speak. He wandered around the sky. Angelina Jolie, who was confused by the lake, continued to be confused, waving her hands irregularly, and she didn't know what kind of fantasy he was trapped in.
The convoy came to the Cronier Hotel. Nan Yi asked Tianxian to throw Angelina Jolie into a room, and he entered his room himself, opened the refrigerator and took out a bottle of water, took a few puffs first, and then turned on the air conditioner.
The Cronil Hotel is not the best hotel in Mexicali, but its location is very good. There are no other buildings within a hundred meters around. The hotel only has twelve floors, limited height, and the roof is a platform that can be easily evacuated by helicopters or evacuated by ropes. In addition, the hotel does not use central air conditioning, but independent, which is very important.
The weather in Mexicali is hot, and you can't stay without turning on the air conditioner. If it is a central air conditioner, it is easy to release "harmful" gases. Whether it is a gas that causes coma or direct damage, it will be slaughtered as long as it is inhaled.
After the air conditioner air conditioner took away the sweat stains on his body, Nan Yi took a shower and sat at the table wearing only a pair of shorts. He turned on the computer to read the analysis report of the "Mexican Peso Crisis" and "Mexican Indigenous Revolutionary Crisis" made by the financial team that he had ignored before.
Some Mexicans have white skin and white characteristics, while others look dark, which is almost close to black people. This is related to the composition of the three major Mexican races.
To be continued...