Draft Summary of Article “Eat, Pray, Post” 1

Laura Oldakowski

Skema Business School

January 19th, 2022

Draft Summary of Article “Eat, Pray, Post”

Social media are now an integral part of our lives. They control us, made us think like

they want us to think. “Eat, Pray Post”, 2015, (A. Naveet) is a critic of social media particularly

in the westernization of the world. Now, the way to communicate has changed. We post, we

write down our ideas directly on Twitter, Snapchat, or even Instagram. Everyone posts what they

want to “make the buzz” with trends mostly Americans.

The westernization of the world, according to Britannica, is “the adoption of the practice

and culture of Western Europe by societies and countries in other parts of the world”. The

principal case in this article is a video from an Indian who tastes American foods. He criticizes

their excess. These are the kind of platforms where everyone posts videos of what they are doing,

criticizing things, or following trends that are popular on the internet. The thing is, with the

hyper generalization of social media, everyone thinks that this is normal to do that sort of thing.

Here, the subject is just a young Indian man making a video of him tasting American

food, but there is a deeper message that we have to interpret in videos like this. For the one who

is watching these videos, reading posts on Twitter, they take them as examples. They compare

themselves to Bollywood or Hollywood stars because the one who makes videos has already

taken inspiration from them.

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The purpose of this article is to make understand to people that social media are not real

life, they show us what they want to show but on the other side, this is not funny as it seems.

This “online virality” needs to be controlled to make sure that global and individual cultures are

respected.