American hamburgers, japanese sushi, italian pizza, mexican tacos, and middle eastern pita bread are now commonly found in most countries. this supports the argument that

Cultural hybridization and Globalization.

Cultural hybridization is the blending of elements from diverse cultures, elements such as foods, languages, dressing, music etc.  I, therefore, feel that without cultural hybridization, the world we are in would not be anywhere near as exciting and multicultural as it is today. Finding Chinese town in America, eating African food in Toronto, Listening to songs in languages that we don't understand, but still enjoys them, an Africa speaking French and still has his/ her own local dialect, an American eating with chopstick on the street of Newyork.

It's so interesting in our world today, that we find so many cultures influencing our food and cooking, this is only possible because of cultural hybridization and globalization. In countries like America, Canada, France, Brazil, Britain etc, there exist different cultures living within a couple of meters from each other.

the fact that could also be added to column b is that during world war ii, specifically between the years 1941 and 1945, japan expanded its territory towards the indonesian territory in what was known later as part of the "pacific war". in that time, japan could conquer the philipines, singapore,   borneo, central java, malang, cebu, sumatra and various other islands of the area, therefore expanding its territory for a brief period of time.