IMHO when the gap is too wide it sticks differently, it creates a caricature or an utopia in a similar way how Hollywood created an imaginary US utopia everywhe

IMHO when the gap is too wide it sticks differently, it creates a caricature or an utopia in a similar way how Hollywood created an imaginary US utopia everywhere in the world or how the Anime culture created a caricature of Japanese people. I don't know if it is good or bad thing in total. I remember idealising the USA as a teenager, not only its technological might but imagining that everybody lives in large detached homes only later to find out that Americans who live like that can't do anything without a car, don't have groceries, restaurants, cafes, museums, cinemas in walking distance. My bet is that it will simply stick differently and will create an image of America through which Europeans will reflect on themselves and have conversations about how things can be done differently. I don't believe that hearing different viewpoints automatically makes you to subscribe to them and that's why I'm very ant-censorship and I think it's a mistake to block or remove content from the internet. Real people don't get influenced the way priests influence villagers in Age of Empires 2. Actually, I think a bit of cultural decoupling from the US will have positive effects as the US itself is in cultural crisis.