The pizza effect is the way in which a community’s self-understanding is influenced by foreign sources. The term was coined by the Austrian-born Hindu monk and professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, Agehananda Bharati in 1970. The original examples given by Bharati mostly had to do with popularity and status.
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The pizza effect is the phenomenon of elements of a nation or people’s culture being transformed or at least more fully embraced elsewhere, then re-imported to their culture of origin. It is the way in which a community’s self-understanding is influenced by foreign sources. The term was coined by the Austrian-born Hindu monk and professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, Agehananda Bharati in 1970, based on his understanding of the history of pizza. The original examples given by Bharati mostly had to do with popularity and status: Islamist terrorism, and specifically suicide bombing, can be seen as examples, beginning as isolated interpretations of the concept of shahid, or martyrdom, then being re-exported to the greater Muslim world.
The Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City was inspired by an event in the James Bond film Spectre, which was fictional when the film was produced. The founders of the Theosophical Society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, were influenced by Eastern religions, then placed their headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, from where they spread their views within India. Haoqiu zhuan, a Chinese novel, was originally considered second-rate fiction and stood in danger of being forgotten with changes in literary taste in the early twentieth century.
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