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We
Are the United States of Borg.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
We will assimilate your cultural and national distinctiveness into
our own.
You will be made to serve the process of globalization.
You will adopt American values as your own.
You will go to work for the global megacorporations which further
the Americanization of the world. You will then spend your income
on American products.
You will drink Coca-Cola. You will eat at McDonalds. You will smoke
Marlboro cigarettes. You will drive Chevrolets. You will wear American-style
clothing. You will listen to music by American artists. You will watch
video entertainment produced in Hollywood. You will worship Mickey
Mouse.
You will use Microsoft software.
Most importantly, you will speak English.
Resistance is futile.
We will co-opt your culture, so that we may draw off parts of you
and make them into our own image. We will adopt work room your language
into the English language. we will adopt foods from your culture and
adapt them into our own diets.
Your culture will be assimilated. Your culture will be Americanized
Those parts of your culture which can- not be Americanized will be
discarded.
You will re-make your economies into American-style market economies.
You will remake your governments into western -style democratic republics.
Your people will be allowed to retain their own individualities, but
only insofar as it furthers the spread of the consumerist values collective.
You will be more concerned with individual freedoms than communal
values, so as to further the cause of individual consumerism. You
will be detached from the natural world. You will remodel your cities
into American-style cities. You will live in the suburbs.
The process is global. the process is unstoppable. You will be assimilated.
You will follow the example of previously assimilated nations. The
Borg nations of Europe. Borgjapan. BorgCanada. You will join them.
We are the United States of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance
is futile.
Source:http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kevyn/WRONG/borg.html
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COMMENT FROM THE AUTHOR, KEVYN JACOBS:
"I wrote this in response to what I saw as I traveled around the
world as a Semester at Sea student. In country after country,
I saw the globalization process taking place. The Americanization
of the world. Traditional cultures are dying out as the world
is homogenized into one common culture, a McDonald's culture,
It reminded me of the way the Borg operate in Star Trek, and so
I wrote this comparison. As is probably obvious, I have very mixed
feelings about the process of globalization." kevyn@earthlink.net
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