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In the early 50s Dwight Mac Donald coined a term homogenization. It was to describe the main feature of the upcoming mass culture, which was then just about to spread all over the world. Mac Donald perceived homogenization as a great threat to every culture. He claimed. That people from all walks of life and in almost every corner of the world would eat the same junk food, watch the same TV programmes and live in very similar houses. If that had turned out to be truth, national identity would be an extinct now. But up to a point Mac Donald was right. Wherever we go there is Mc Donalds (What an irony, that a great critic of mass culture was named Mac Donald!!), no matter if we are in Egypt or Hong  Kong. And food is an important part of national identity. Because national identity is a system that contains of language, rituals and habits among which food plays a vital role. 
All primitive cultures after being touched by the global mass culture have to change. No longer the Bali indigenous  inhabitants believe in their rituals after they were provided wit TVs at their homes. But on the other hand, the overwhelming mass culture forces us to think about national identity. And the struggle to save it has started in many cultures. There is a strong impact for teaching children about their local tradition for example. In Poland we still celebrate Christmas in a traditional way, even if we face attack of Coca-cola Santa  Clauses  just before the Christmas Eve. And we still feel Poles after all. So I think that in the time of globalisation the national identity, and thus the nations, will survive. Although they will certainly change. 


