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Figure 9.2 The ‘foreign’.

Photo 9.2 ‘Imagine there’s no countries’.

interesting approach would be one that looked at what they do with it, rather than only
what it supposedly does to them. American culture is worked on; it is used to make
space within what is perceived as the dominant national culture.
Another problem with this very limited notion of the foreign is that it is always
assumed that the ‘local’ is the same as the national. But within the national, there
may well be many ‘locals’. Moreover, there may be considerable conflict between them,
and between them and the dominant culture (i.e. ‘the national’). Globalization can