The U.S has experienced new ways of establishing and encouraging capitalist economic expansion and political constancy and "social order" in the U.S.A and other countries; this is through the concept known as modernisation. Modernisation is best understood in relation to processes of industrialisation, urbanisation, secularisation, rationalisation, and the development of world market systems. Modernisation occurs when societies, when countries adopt the processes or characteristics of another which they deem to be positive …
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…influence is detrimental or not to a society. Modernisation, globalisation and americanisation can influence a countries culture. With more interest placed on technology and the economy a country can see their religions, customs, social norms, and self identity fade. Of course whether this is a positive or negative thing is reserved for the individual. But we must question if this change is what people want and if they will benefit the way they would like.