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The McDonaldization system offers society the opportunity to obtain food cheaper and faster. On the other hand, this system has not only revolutionized the way we get food, but also changed the way we live. In today's society, everything revolves around time and individuals are accustomed to lifestyle in a fast-moving environment. In the article “The McDonald's System,” George Ritzer states, “that many other aspects of society are, or will be, McDonaldized. This raises the question of why McDonald's model has proven so compelling. Four fundamental and seductive dimensions underlie the success of the McDonald's model and, more generally, of the McDonaldization process" (453). It is evident that the McDonald's model incorporates four strategies in providing services that allow us to obtain the products easily. First, McDonald's model is efficient in providing services to customers. For example, people who drive-through counter offers people the products can get fast-food meals without getting out of their vehicle (Ritzer 443). Second, the McDonald's model offers customers the ability to get more food at a lower price at a convenient time. Customers can purchase fast-food meals for less than five dollars, instead of buying a pound of organic apples at the supermarket. This doesn't take into account the time you have to spend choosing "good quality" organic apples. Third, the McDonald model offers “predictability. …Knowing that McDonalds 'offers no surprises, that the food we eat at one time or in one place will be identical to the food we eat at another time or in another place' (Ritzer 454). This means that every fast food meal we buy in Chicago will taste the same... middle of paper...vis elaborates "[T]o think that others think - and perhaps even the ability to think are learned characteristics. These are the result of years of exposure to people living in groups, especially the acquisition of language… Our way of speaking, for example, helps shape our basic attitudes and orientations toward life” (123). In other words, being able to communicate and interact with others helps individuals adapt to their environment. Through the cases of Anna, Isabelle and Genie Davis teach us the importance of socialization. These girls were disadvantaged and isolated at a young age , as a result they never learned to socialize with the world around them. They did not experience learning skills that shaped their brains academically and socially. As a result, their environment does not condition them to act in a certain way; they were not capable of playing a humane role in a society.