American culture emphasizes broadly human qualities and individualism, coupled with a healthy dose of materialism, greed, and a small dose of hedonism. Mixed in

American culture emphasizes broadly human qualities and individualism, coupled with a healthy dose of materialism, greed, and a small dose of hedonism. Mixed in is a dark thread of violence. Couple this with a massive advertising and export focused business world, and adjoined with a melting pot of global culture, it’s well adapted to cultural adoption. I see a lot of discussion of force and it feels blind to colonialism and other even more forceful cultural indoctrination. American culture isn’t generally forced on anyone (exceptions exist!). It evolved as individual humanism by a multicultural society, so it’s essentially the cultural equivalent to a donut - super appealing to our human senses, relatable across cultures, and probably bad for you in large quantities. That doesn’t require force, just availability and marketing.