Is Culture Really Threatened by the Free Market?

Sitting in his favorite Irish bar, the French citizen, dressed in his Chinese cotton clothes, sips his Spanish wine from a Polish wine glass while he complains about American pop music broadcast by Japanese loudspeakers. Because he is "tired of this cultural invader," he intends to vote for subsidies to "protect" local culture, meaning the government would force the media to disseminate local bands. But ask him what his favorite bands and singers are and he will look away.