Americanization of the Common Law

The Present and Future of Americanization in South Korea

This paper examines the historical origins and current processes of both proand anti-Americanism in South Korea, where Americanization is associated with Koreans' wealth and security in the era of globalization. However, it is suggested here that South Korea should explore alternatives to Americanization by considering a range of alternative futures for Korean society. The future is always chan...

The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization

The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization We examine the impact of the Americanization of names on the labor market outcomes of migrants. We construct a novel longitudinal data set of naturalization records in which we track a complete sample of migrants who naturalize by 1930. We find that migrants who Americanized their names experienced larger occupational upgrading. Some, such as those wh...

Americanization and its Limits: Theory and Practice in the Reconstruction of Britain's Engineering Industries, 1945-55

A central problem confronting all West European economies after World War I! was that of Americanization. How far should European industry be reconstructed in the image of the United States, unquestionably the dominant economic and military power of the postwar world? To contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, Americanization of industry meant above all mass production -the high-volume ma...

The Seattle Compromise: Multicultural Sensitivity and Americanization

The Americanization of the Croatian language.

The USA is spreading their political, military, economic, scientific, artistic and cultural mission throughout the world. The aim of this paper is to bring to the attention the Americanization of the Croatian language particularly evident in the newly adopted language manners, in teenage language, in specialist languages, in the field of advertising and in political correctness. The spread of A...