Monday, April 18, 2016

                  Las Vegas, Sin City. One of the most popular tourist traps in the United States, Sin City is renowned for its gambling, attractions, beautiful desert, and... well alcoholic rampages. Now one may be temped to ask, how does the Sin capital of the world show globalization? Simple, everybody likes to have a little sin in their lives, and it shows here. Walking through Vegas you will see every ethnicity of individual imaginable, restaurants and bars which offer cuisine from all over the world, and architecture that is inspired by numerous cultures. The main reason for this is its tourism. It may not be well known but there's a lot of tourist destinations that take one outside of the city to the beautiful Mojave Desert. And since there aren't many places like the Mojave it attracts an interesting bunch of people. In my personal travels there, I spoke with people from basically every Asian country I could think of, people from all over Europe, and a solid amount of individuals from South America as well. As I mentioned earlier, you can walk past a usual all-American burger joint, then the next second pass Tai food, middle-eastern food, Mexican grilles, anything you can think of. Not only is it food from different cultures that presents itself, its also religion. Yes, Vegas is the sin city, but religion survives down there. In addition to the occasional Christian or Catholic church, there is also a mosque which inhabits the suburbs of Vegas. Without globalization, I doubt a Muslim religious structure could have ever made its way to the heart of the Mojave. Usually when we think of globalization, we associate it mainly with business. But in Vegas, the globalization that occurs there is more of the cultural type. Take the image for example, Vegas is in the middle of an American waste-land yet in the strip lies a replica of the Eifel Tower. If that doesn't show cultural diffusion between places across the globe from one another, nothing does.

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