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The document discusses the increasing homogenization of cultures worldwide, highlighting both the economic and political benefits and the significant drawbacks, particularly the loss of cultural diversity and national identity. It provides comparative data on exchange students between Europe and Australia from 2007 to 2009, indicating a rise in European students while Australian numbers remained stable. Additionally, it outlines the processes involved in modern landfill construction and fish smoking, detailing the necessary steps and equipment.

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The document discusses the increasing homogenization of cultures worldwide, highlighting both the economic and political benefits and the significant drawbacks, particularly the loss of cultural diversity and national identity. It provides comparative data on exchange students between Europe and Australia from 2007 to 2009, indicating a rise in European students while Australian numbers remained stable. Additionally, it outlines the processes involved in modern landfill construction and fish smoking, detailing the necessary steps and equipment.

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Differences between countries become less evident each year.

Nowadays all
over the world, people share the same fashion trends, advertising, brands, eating
habits, TV channels.

Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?

Homogenization has been recently debated, with some claiming that


boundaries between countries in fashion, advertising, eating patterns and even TV
channels are growing more blurred. I believe that this phenomenon, despite having
some political and economic benefits, is certainly a change for the worse.

Economic gains that the growing similarity between countries leads to are
undeniably tempting. Once multiple countries share much in common, relations
between them are bound to grow stronger, resulting in, for example, experience,
knowledge and resource exchange, along with numerous partnership in socio-
economic sectors. These co-benefits can eventually aid the nations in improving
their economic wellbeing and therefore making strides in medicine, healthcare, and
housing, to name a few. From a political standpoint, this strengthened international
collaboration can also boost global tourism, with the countries where a certain
culture is dominant in various aspects of society, from fashion to TV programs,
being more welcoming because of the uniformity they bear. Europe is such a place,
for instance; it is a hub where representatives of different nationalities bear close
resemblance to each other, as even their dietary choices are fairly similar.

However compelling these upsides may sound, I contend that the potential
demerits bear much greater weight, with the loss of cultural diversity and national
identity being the major one. Given the superiority of the dominant culture and
trends, minority ones are likely to fall into oblivion, creating a global community
where sophistication and unique backgrounds are lost. Without them,
innovativeness and creativity are also at a significant danger. Nowhere else is this
pressing issue more prevalent than in Uzbekistan, where national values, attitudes
and mentality are skewed as a result of the intrusion of Western beliefs, fashion
features, eating habits and big names in sports, pharmacy, and other areas alike.
Putting into perspective, thousands of years of history bound up to customs,
traditions and beliefs are to be wiped out as well, which intensifies the magnitude
of the problem.

In conclusion, though offering some merits to improve the economic and


political landscape, homogenization, in my opinion, entails much more
considerable adversities: the fall of minority cultures and historical backgrounds.
The charts provide a comparative analysis of the number of exchange
students between Europe and Australia in 2007 and 2009.

Europe-to-Australia exchange patterns were largely rising, with the total


count going up to 226 in 2009, up from 189 in 2007. This rise could be attributed
to increases in France, the leading country (from 60 to 61), Sweden (from 34 to 42)
and, to a much larger extent, Germany (from 27 to 62). Netherlands, meanwhile,
stood stable at 36, with the UK being the only nation where a decrease took place
in the number of students exchanged, which fell to 26 from the original 31.

Trends in the quantity of Australian students exhanged with European ones


were, however, mixed, with the overall number unchanged at 152 in both years.
Among the countries that saw a rise in this domain were only Germany and France
(again at the top), from 18 to 26 and from 37 to a steggring 58, respectively. In the
remainder of the nations, conversely, a decline of varying extents took place:
Sweden, the UK and Netherland, which dropped to 27, 23 and a low of 18, in that
order.
To recap, while the total number of students from Europe exchanged rose,
that of Australian students remained stable. France, notably, ranked consitently
first almost in each year in both domains.

The diagram illustrates how a modern type of landfill for household waste is
designed.

This process is heavily reliant on two factors: machinery, along with


technical equipment, and raw materials. It starts out when a suitable natural rock
formation is dug up, continues with filling the holes with materials, and ends when
waste accumulated fills up the construction.

The first stage initiates with excavation and soil removal to a certain depth,
ensuring sufficient space for packing waste. After that, the drainage system—a set
of pipes—is installed at the bottom on the surface of a synthetic liner, which is laid
on a layer of clay. To remove leachate timely, a drainage tank is attached at the
deepest point of the pit—a step that marks the end of contructing the landfill.

The usage and closure of it, meanwhile, require some period of time. The
former phase continues until the landfill is full of waste discarded by households,
which is transported by trucks. Once packed to its full capacity, the landfill is then
covered with another layer of clay, and to vent gases emitted by the waste, a long
tube is linked from the ground level to the lower layer of the pit.
The picture shows a method of smokign fish on a small scale. This process
involves a number of 8 steps that could be grouped into two chief stages: pre-
smoking procedures, actual smoking and delivery of the end-product. To complete
these phases, special equipment and human labor are required.

The process starts out with the removal of fish’s internal organs, after which
the fish is subject to a salt fermentation in a plastic tub. Once fermented for half an
hour, the fish is placed onto the slats of a wooden, man-made bucket to be dried.

Subsequently, the dried fish is manually laid onto and held on a plate heated
by fire to steam the fish for 5 minutes, seemingly to infuse it with flavors of
firewood. To further maximize the flavor, the fish is smoked in deeper buckets—
vats—with lids sealed on them. These vats stand on a specific platform during a
span of 30 minutes, before they the coloring is carried out.

At the final stage, the colored fish is packaged into cardboard boxes and
sealed to be distributed afterwards. This distribution is completed with the use of
trucks carrying the product in the back section, where a metal container holds

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