Comments on: When Ronald Meets Mona http://muguetdeparis.com/2009/10/08/when-ronald-meets-mona/ Bridging the Distance Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:11:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cigalechanta http://muguetdeparis.com/2009/10/08/when-ronald-meets-mona/#comment-221 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:37:24 +0000 http://muguetdeparis.com/?p=1826#comment-221 This is what the New York Times said today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/world/europe/26mcdonalds.html?_r=1&ref=europe

]]> By: anniemousette http://muguetdeparis.com/2009/10/08/when-ronald-meets-mona/#comment-220 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:55:38 +0000 http://muguetdeparis.com/?p=1826#comment-220 All day yesterday, every U.S.local and national news broadcast’s lead story was not about Afghanistan, health care or unemployment but the fact that McDonald’s is joining the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, and that France has the dubious distinction of having more McDonald’s than anyone outside the U.S.To me this means obese and monolingual American tourists prefer the “familiar” and not being faced with anything “foreign,” yet want to tell their neighbors at home that “We saw the Mona Lisa,” even if they saw no other art on their “cultural” tour of Paris — oh, yes, they can eat the same American McDonald’s “cuisine” by that other icon, the Eiffel Tower.

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