Aren't there many things which, while not unique to the US, came to be perceived as American? Or pioneered here then imitated elsewhere? or exported as a streng

Aren't there many things which, while not unique to the US, came to be perceived as American? Or pioneered here then imitated elsewhere? or exported as a strength or "leading example" of the US? - And do you mean positives or negatives? And it has always surprised me how much French TV news for example love to report on what happens in the US. To a large extent, it may be just a historical bad habit or quirk (I mean as opposed to reporting on what happens in the rest of the EU or in China for example) but it's still there. So it's not exactly what americans think of as their strengths that makes it through.