Buddha vs McDonalds

Culture is your environment. Your culture is whatever you make it, in addition to what society makes it. You can be Jewish living in America, but Christmas is still part of your culture. Then again you can be a Christian here and decide to celebrate Hanukkah. Then, Hanukkah becomes your personal culture. Different countries have different cultures and the regions and neighborhoods in those countries hold differing cultures. Culture is embedded in a society, and now as technology is rapidly advancing, cultures are mixed, shared and swapped. We can spend this entire semester ranting about how terrible America is for forcing itself upon other cultures in politics, ways of life, McDonalds; But we rarely examine the benefits of the intercultural relations. If it wasn't for our cultures blending we wouldn't have video games, cars, foods- at least any of the good ones.
I'm really into Buddhism and the Buddhist culture and that wouldn't be possible if it weren't for the ability to learn about it from books, the internet, technology. Granted, Buddha and McDonalds are not typically regarded on the same level, but that's from an American's standpoint. What about the individuals in various countries who think McDonalds is the best restaurant in the world? The fact is, McDonalds is universal and that's because it is making a profit. This post I'm writing is almost surprising myself, because I'm usually the first one to criticize America in every way possible. But this constant criticism yields no positivity or solutions. This is not to say that we should ever disregard the problems, but if we hope to see a change we must look at the situations objectively.