As a French language learner who's been consuming French content including news as a means of supplementing my language acquisition journey, the "not being Amer

As a French language learner who's been consuming French content including news as a means of supplementing my language acquisition journey, the "not being America's followers"-sentiment is unavoidable. It's no doubt a complicated relationship which I'm just beginning to understand because it seems to operate at several levels. At the first level, I'll use the example of "le wokisme," where anti-"wokisme" is used as specifically in the context of not following American values. However, as you can quickly guess, simply picking an American stance, and producing its opposite ends up replicating the same political division. I'd imagine there is a level above this which attempts specifically reframe issues in a different way than Americans, but that fails in a peculiar way, in that it doesn't retain hegemony on what the issues are. Trying to maintain a these are American issues, and these are French issues, I'd imagine also breaks down at some level as inter-cultural exchange can never been eliminated. It's an odd thing to at some level partially adopt a "we are defined by what we aren't" mentality. But again, as an outsider, I can be sure I'm distorting (perhaps wildly) some of the perspectives I'm trying to observe.