That's the nature of cities, but London is becoming homogenized.
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Now a preoccupation with contemporary art has made it more homogenized.
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Without those fringes, the large culture becomes this homogenized corporate party.
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But college football, or at least its postseason, has been homogenized.
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The Players Weekend uniforms are just the opposite: distinctive, not homogenized.
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Unfortunately, it's sort of a homogenized type of storytelling that we're seeing.
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" "My initial relationship with Black History Month was a fairly homogenized, sanitized front.
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In this increasingly globalized, homogenized world, that's not just a matter of snobbery.
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Festivals are too big a business not to be homogenized, smoothed out and mainstreamed.
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Everything is so homogenized, planned in advance, or with a budget attached to it.
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It's said that travel these days is too easy, too connected, too familiar, too homogenized.
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Jamie Thomas: When it got bought by some of those corporate machines, it started getting homogenized.
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For a long time, restaurants were focused on providing homogenized meals at the fastest pace possible.
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In an increasingly homogenized world, Appalachia remains truly distinctive—in its culture, its idioms, its struggles.
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If he searches Pinterest for, say, "edgy, structural updos, the images are all homogenized," he said.
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Xamarin allows developers to use a homogenized C# language which easily moves between all three platforms.
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For many people, the ever-present weight of technology might suggest that culture is getting homogenized.
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Yet kids' entertainment can be overly cautious and homogenized, anxious about upsetting or confusing its audience.
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Clinton also launched in a perfectly homogenized, almost Hollywood-like production of her campaign four years ago.
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East Dogmouth is a little island in a borough drowning in money and being homogenized by corporations.
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It was like nothing we had ever seen before at the usually stuffy, homogenized conventions of the past.
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A realm that once comprised countless nations has become a supercontinent, a monolith of homogenized use and mood.
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It feels like a take on reclaiming your own humanity and fighting against a homogenized way of thinking.
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After feeling like his debut became "a little homogenized," D'Angelo created his follow-up to challenge the mainstream.
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The New Zealand comedy "The Breaker Upperers" adds some welcome irreverence to the homogenized mix of Netflix comedies.
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The West's erroneous homogenized Africa of poverty, famine, and conflict now coupled with one of sunrises, spiritualism, and showtunes.
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For the past two centuries, America's farms have expanded and homogenized, and farming equipment and chemicals have replaced personnel.
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Globalization has brought wider access to foods from around the world but it has also homogenized and elided them.
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The property, which has been saddled with the more homogenized moniker "Sycamore Valley Ranch," carries a $67 million price tag.
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Especially with going completely digital, I think it's really easy to make your stuff look homogenized and like everyone else's.
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Hotels could not compete, because their cost structure was different, their rooms were homogenized and the hotel experience was commonplace.
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Surprisingly, the trends are fairly consistent — a marker, perhaps, of how the internet has homogenized style all over the place.
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Skeptics say the heightened scrutiny discourages authors from writing about cultures other than their own, resulting in more homogenized literature.
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But it is also to reject the notion that that ideal can be easily translated into a pure, homogenized path.
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In this era of homogenized radio hits and algorithms, there's less and less respect for the REAL musicians out there.
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For Clinton, this is consistent with the campaign as a whole since it began: Packaged, prepared, homogenized, scripted to a fault.
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This watering down of the league would be bad enough on its own, but the product is becoming increasingly homogenized, too.
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It's homogenized, it's patriarchal, it can be misogynistic, and it can be all the things that traditional, coastal culture is not.
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Since then, though, everything's gotten upgraded and homogenized, and there aren't any American legations to speak of — there are embassies everywhere.
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Nadal's return tactics are one more sign that the modern game is not as homogenized as its critics like to lament.
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Little Havana will probably remain Little Havana for a while, but how long in its current, largely non-homogenized version remains unknown.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol has receded into that same, homogenized cultural canon of Christmas movies as Home Alone and The Santa Clause.
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Are we siloed within our own preferences or are we unable to escape the homogenized net-average, consuming all the same things?
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You're going to get homogenized, and all anyone is going to want to do is listen to Drake and have bottle service.
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Do you think in the 21st-century things seem to be more homogenized and sanitized than ever before—that we need that disruption?
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When you try to make it homogenized, when you try to make it appeal to everybody, then you don't have anything that's special.
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There's a small and not very diverse team that gets to propose and approve new emoji, which that can lead to homogenized selections.
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Fifth Harmony's album, especially, reflects a group of impressive singers fighting against technology and algorithms designed to flatten them into a homogenized whole.
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It is curious, then, that Ellis chose to duplicate "The Shoemaker," a painting not actually in the collection, in deliberately subdued, homogenized hues.
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The rest is homogenized stories from the various wire services; the paper itself is a midstate edition covering about a hundred- mile radius.
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"As our world is getting so homogenized, it's more important than ever to seek out the authentic, the artisanal and the unique," said Wearstler.
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Think back on modern political history and ask yourself: has it ever been more raw, more candid and less homogenized and staged than now?
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It's about individualism, but at the same time things can become homogenized faster because the more likes it gets, [the more] it spreads out.
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But what's most upsetting about this change is that it's yet another example of the way tech companies are becoming homogenized in their design.
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But robots also pose risks for religion — for example, by making it feel too mechanized or homogenized or by challenging core tenets of theology.
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The cream still separates since it's not homogenized, and it's definitely missing the whey flavor, but we're blown away by how close it's gotten already.
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The concept of "cultural fit" can lead to homogenized workplaces, experts have warned, as managers prioritize hiring people who come from similar workplaces as themselves.
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But these aren't built for trade, and the effect of all this homogenized, sanitized designing, these "replicated aesthetics," is a further detachment from our cities.
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Each digital platform is its own monoculture, with a homogenized style optimized for the structure of the platform and the algorithms that serve its recommendations.
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They are not feeling pressure to conform to a homogenized or overly artificial idea of beauty and they're kind of just bringing out their natural beauty.
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KDE hopes that the homogenized hardware will give a more reliable user experience, which in turn could attract more people to use KDE's version of Linux.
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Titanfall 2's campaign is an example of how creativity can still triumph in a AAA Space which looks more and more homogenized with each year.
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Often combining the infectious rhythms of house music with sharp punchlines, the artist stands out in a sea of rappers whose sounds can easily be homogenized.
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I go back to find the next great coffee before it gets sent to the regional mill and becomes homogenized as part of a regional blend.
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What if the grapes were fermented in small lots, so that each section of the vineyard could be treated individually rather than homogenized in huge vats?
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In answering these questions, we prevented domestic oysters from disappearing — but we also homogenized them, making something safe and predictable out of what was once wild.
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You don't kick your beloved puppy to the curb because he grows old, or starts to smell, or becomes a homogenized, hyper-gentrified perverted version of itself.
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As our gadgets become more sophisticated, they also become homogenized; at this point, most people are toting around slick glass rectangles of technology, of slightly varying sizes.
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"The data suggests there is now a homogenized preference for larger breasts," Viren Swami, a professor of Social Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University in England, told Insider.
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"That was really instrumental to me, as someone that didn't feel like they fitted that homogenized view of what a woman was supposed to be," Christie recalled.
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"They want to keep a homogenized campaign, everybody on the same page, everybody united," said G. Terry Madonna, a pollster at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster.
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Even in a politics increasingly homogenized by the same national trends, these small regional variations could provide the tipping point for the epic confrontation approaching in 2020.
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They were imagining new kinds of art, new kinds of music and new kinds of sex that could counter the homogenized, focus-grouped visions of broadcast media.
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Two weeks ago, Chicago pizzeria/nightclub Bottled Blonde posted a picture of a homogenized group of smiling patrons, all balancing on the back of an upholstered sofa.
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Those who don't fit into the mainstream gay rights movement are often left behind by those who are getting homogenized into the so-called "normative" queer identity.
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" As opposed to the increasingly homogenized visions of sci-fi movies, Mr. Wong imagines his own future in an animation, "Dear, can I give you a hand?
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I think that's very important as the world become more homogenized, for us to guard our individual cultures because they're connected to the land which we live on.
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There is also the sense, the cliche, that New York City, and Brooklyn in particular, is a melting pot, but the neighborhoods were generally closed and ethnically homogenized.
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Facebook has finally homogenized its protocol so leapling birthdays always show up on the 28thin non-leap years, and any major retailer has probably got the correct software.
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Sinclair's policy of forcing these local broadcasters to air homogenized, facts-optional "must run" segments went viral last year when Deadspin illustrated what this looks like in practice.
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Funding cuts disproportionately affected Black artists and Black women in particular, and arts organizations intended to redress the imbalances of representation became homogenized spaces for all ethnic minorities.
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No matter how creative a pilot or movie is on its first draft, scripts have a way of becoming homogenized as they go through a network or studio process.
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It is here that the controlling nature of the new aesthetic becomes most limpid and palpable: the constant sanitization of our digital selves reflects the homogenized minimalism of Airspace.
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The genres of net music and the spaces they resided in— which were once home to marginalized identities and people rejected from mainstream culture—soon saw their spaces homogenized.
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Unlike homogenized hipster foodies who flock from trend to trend, Mr. Tonelli is that rarest of things, a true free spirit with the work ethic to perfect his passion.
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And with the upper levels of the international art market becoming increasingly homogenized, there is growing appreciation of regional events — if the region is where something interesting is happening.
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We do stuff like that gets branded as "anti-comedy," but we view comedy as just another thing to make fun of—the way comedy is presented, homogenized, and used.
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The fact that cursive writing is not vital to communication does not diminish its beauty, its ability to delight or its value as an antidote to our increasingly homogenized society.
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But the Pharos Gate is an especially nostalgic read in the age of email/texting/Tinder messaging, when written correspondence has been visually homogenized, stripped of any tactility and romance.
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The effect is happening across different cultural industries: "We're returning to a media monoculture," made up of corporatized, homogenized websites instead of smaller blogs, Darcie Wilder wrote on the Outline.
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It is the experience of time that Rebecca Solnit described in her essay on Eadweard Muybridge and the invention of motion picture and the railroad: time homogenized by 19th-century innovation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PORTLAND—No Human Involved: the 5th Annual Sex Workers' Art Show subverts homogenized narratives of sex work by showcasing critically engaged artworks by sex workers.
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All photos by Gabriela Campos For decades Native Americans have been wholly misrepresented in the world of comic books, stripped down to a series of caricatured, homogenized tropes of the American Indian.
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It's homogenized garbage, and that's what they're peddling in order to keep people docile so that the machine can keep making money and we can keep existing in this bizarre dark age.
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Like the Lex Luger (the rap producer, not the pro wrestler) of cinema, Zimmer's scores have been massively influential but incredibly easy to replicate, resulting in a homogenized soundscape across multiple industries.
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The call for a homogenized approach to federal buildings also dismisses one of the most fundamental tenets of the Guiding Principles, the need for an architecture that reflects and responds to its time.
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With the physical change comes a human one, too: Going are the original residents, local pubs, late licenses, and nunneries; in comes the law and sterile streets—a pedestrian, homogenized British high street.
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" Rarely, Laing veers into polemicism, as when, leaning heavily on Sarah Schulman and Susan Sontag, she writes with an atypical lack of humor that "everything becomes steadily more homogenized, more intolerant of difference.
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This homogenized sound is designed to appeal to the target demographic of hip, urban restaurants — Shecter says selectors "target people in their 20s and 30s," just like a lot of trendy restaurants do.
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But the word also evokes a homogenized space, a Monocultural Cinematic Universe in which everything is bright, vapid, and family-friendly, and any whimpering of dissent is smoothed over into sameness: monotonous culture.
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In the end I fall more on Scorsese's side of the argument, though I wouldn't wish for any more Scorsese: The non-homogenized alternatives to the mainstream become harder and harder to find.
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He received more than 20 responses and photos, including a jarred "homogenized spaghetti bolognese" from England, a kids' version in a squeezy pouch from Copenhagen, and premade packages of spag bol from Utrecht, Belgium.
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"These changes are done from a standpoint of not taking in some of the cultural factors and understanding the nuances that relate to people of color and recognizing that we're not homogenized," Brown says.
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HONOLULU — Drive 10 minutes inland from the high-end shops and fancy hotels of Waikiki Beach and you get to a part of Honolulu that feels less homogenized than the made-for-tourists beachfront.
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Fans of Suicide or the Cramps or anyone opposed to homogenized rock music should see this record as an absolute must in their collection, or else forever be lacking in its hurriedly brilliant spirit.
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The homogenized factory wine produced under the Soviets — pronounced "garbage" by one Georgian and necessitating the destruction of hundreds of varieties of grapes — is a stain that these dedicated craftsmen are eager to erase.
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The real complaint is that the art world, and much of the gay world in general, has become so homogenized, so complacent in its banal, self-loving consensus, that it will silence any dissenting voice.
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The complexity seems natural, an account of the quality of life itself, transcribed as it needs to be, not formalized or homogenized, but ripplingly various and multidimensional, as Homer, Odysseus and their stories all are.
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His "Sea of Sorrows" choreography is a skillful imitation of the idiom widely established by Jiri Kyliàn: There's little human individuality, since everyone onstage is homogenized by the same emotion — in this case, inexplicable grief.
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Adeline Murthy of the University of New Mexico used the Christmas Bird Count, an annual census conducted by volunteers, to show that North American cities harbor an avifauna that is pretty much homogenized across the continent.
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But in an era of franchise entertainment and increasingly homogenized cultural production, where films and television and even books are judged as successes based on the money they bring in, such a space is increasingly unthinkable.
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Whatever Putin's motivation – patriotism, paranoia and insecurity, or all the money he allegedly has – his message about protecting Christianity and Russia's unique culture against a homogenized, relativistic Europe resonates with many more Europeans than Communism ever did.
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Some of the films will only get to you through streaming services, but I think the big problem is that when it comes to the way films are being produced, distributed and exhibited, the system is homogenized.
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Though commercial food production has largely homogenized the fruits and veggies available at farm stands and in produce aisles, prior to globalization the origins and uses of edible crops were indelibly connected to mythology, symbolism, and culture.
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The segments recently made headlines after a Deadspin video highlighted the often creepy, mindless, and homogenized nature of the reports, often designed to falsely provide the illusion of broad support for what, in reality, are incredibly unpopular policies.
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Now a perspicacious person named Oliver has created a video aptly titled "Instravel — A Photogenic Mass Tourism Experience," which is a Black Mirror-esque look into how our fixation with capturing the perfect image has homogenized our creativity.
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The other day, a perfect day, I returned to a favorite Left Bank haunt, the Au Sauvignon bar, established 1957, where the wines make no compromise with homogenized modernity and the definitive cheese-and-ham omelet is made.
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" Sinclair described the editorials as "intended to stimulate public discourse," boasting that "in an age of homogenized, bland, politically correct news, we are proud to deliver news and commentary that stimulates critical thinking and encourages viewers to get involved.
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Paradoxically, though, the rise of Airbnb has contributed to a phenomenon that writer Kyle Chayka termed "AirSpace": an increasingly homogenized minimalist-chic aesthetic that can be found in coffee shops, co-working spaces, and, yes, Airbnb rentals from Bali to Barcelona.
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In addition, television ads fueled by big money -- over $100 million in New Hampshire this cycle, according to Bloomberg Politics -- have homogenized a previously regional political discussion, turning a tin ear on the cultural nuances of our state in the process.
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Broadly speaking, business consolidation via mergers and acquisitions in a political environment that doesn't even pretend to care about antitrust has driven down wages, decreased competition, raised prices for consumers, homogenized the news, and resulted in corporate domination over our laws.
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So I think that to take it to an extreme, you could imagine a world where human beings have been sort of homogenized in a way, and we have a standard set of genes that we want people to inherit.
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That hole was filled, in part, by crowdfunding companies like Kickstarter, which began as democratizing tools for getting movies made without traditional support, but eventually came to be synonymous with a kind of bland, homogenized style that some filmmakers have since rebelled against.
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In short, the statement that America would somehow transform into a homogenized sea of tacos de lengua and birria reflects not only a misunderstanding of the restaurant and service industries, but also of the inherent benefits and values of a multicultural society.
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For now, D.J.s email their files to Dunn, whose own computer feeds into the station's transmitter, which then blankets the entire Cape on 92.1 and 91.3 FM. "It's not ideal," he admitted, but he's no longer afraid of WOMR's programming becoming homogenized.
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Former FCC lawyer Gigi Sohn told Motherboard the ruling was hugely important in the quest to ensure that communities have access to a diverse range of media viewpoints, as opposed to the homogenized, sometime facts-optional coverage Sinclair has been widely criticized for.
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I'm just going to say it: All the financial advice out there tells us the only way to resolve our financial pressures is by following specific guidelines because all that advice is founded on a homogenized perspective that appeals predominantly to a shrinking middle class.
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It's an interconnected world out there, and while it might be more convenient if one company acted as the gatekeeper for the array of services you subscribe to, overall it would probably mean that the technology of the future would be boring and homogenized.
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But its tart critique of a modern world increasingly homogenized, and individuals shorn of individuality through their reliance on devices sold by the millions, has been imbued with such hallucinatory visual allure that your attention is held fast throughout its 90-minute running time.
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In communities where traditional healing homogenized over time into a cohesive system with little room or local trust for variation—like Indian Ayurveda or iSangoma practices in parts of South Africa—Meincke says, a council system of self-governance and coordination could work well.
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Hitler enthusiasts aside, you can't even please every sane person with a given post, so why was I trying to make my face and my body into a homogenized vanilla, palatable to a mass audience so diverse it didn't even have one ideal to aim for?
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While processed, homogenized cheese product has been one of the keystone elements of food assistance programs, and thus a marker of poverty for so many Americans, the rise of trash-chic aesthetic blended with nostalgia has given it a place in haute cuisine in recent years.
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The Jounral also reported that, in combination with the fall roll out, Target's men's and women's Merona apparel line and its men's Mossimo offering will be phased out, "having grown too big and homogenized to garner shoppers' affection," according to executives who spoke to the publication.
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" The Koons sculpture, industrially produced (its manufacture is nearing completion in Germany) and plonkable pretty much anywhere on the planet that could afford it, embodies what Mr. Deneen views as the "presentist and placeless" nature of a liberal culture that has "homogenized the world in its image.
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The stars, the spectacles, and, for a while, the money got bigger than ever, but the hit factories had become so efficient at reproducing their winning formula, and so focussed on releasing songs that could appeal to people across the whole of Asia, that the product became homogenized.
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Even as the Christmas season in the United States steadily grows more and more secular, to reflect a country that's much less homogenized in its makeup, it retains the centrality of charity, the need to make sure people who are downtrodden and ignored are treated with kindness and respect.
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In a time when so many traditions have turned to homogenized milk, Yankees versus Red Sox in the post season retains a jagged allure, even if the worse moments no longer call to mind the Picts against the Angles on Jerome Avenue, with tossed beers in the role of boiling pitch.
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It looks like a spread in Kinfolk magazine, or a Blue Bottle coffee shop, or a first-class airport lounge, a kind of no-place that is also increasingly every place, ultimately becoming a sinister symbol of how capitalism has homogenized physical spaces around the world and infected our very notion of beauty.
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Of course she only moved upstate a few years ago, long after the Lower East Side had been gentrified, but a marriage to Tim Hunt — now an art dealer, formerly of the Warhol Foundation — and the rearing of a daughter forced her out of Manhattan and into Brooklyn before it, too, became homogenized.
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"Now more than ever, as we are seeing more and more music venues, bars and restaurants shutting their doors; more notably in its D.I.Y. scene, the city needs to stop the bleeding of its cultural hubs, or risk becoming corporatized and homogenized," said Rafael Espinal, a New York City Council member who first proposed the bill.
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They lived for generations without electricity, refrigeration, automobiles, Wi-Fi, on-demand streaming, police, homogenized milk, antibiotics or even The New York Times, and they were almost entirely wiped out in the centuries-long campaign of displacement and genocide that forms the through-line of North American history from 1492 to the end of the Apache Wars in the 1920s.
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The Sisters' seven-word mantra, and accompanying mission, originated on Easter Sunday of 1979, when Fred Brungrad (Sister Missionary Position), Reverend Mother, and Sister Vish, the last carrying an AK-47, marched from the Castro to the nude beach at Land's End in whiteface and high heels, a reaction to the stifling Castro Clone uniform that, in their view, had homogenized the neighborhood's gay community.
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" The result is a strange hybrid of a book, part how-to manual, part jeremiad, filled with rambling disquisitions on the likes of Augustine, Teddy Roosevelt and the philosopher John Dewey, who serves as the villain of Sasse's chapters on education, wherein families seeking to nurture their children's individual "souls" do battle with a "homogenized" public school system in thrall to Dewey's "totalizing goals.
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"That will sort of stop completely any innovation, and turn what is a wonderful, wonderful world where you can pretty much do whatever you want to into a great big, homogenized nightmare," Souther tells CNBC Make It. Others have echoed a similar argument about stifling innovation, from a group of 21 tech pioneers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who wrote an open letter on net neutrality, to Twitter and Netflix, both of which rely on users having fast and cheap internet.
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