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You treat "America" as some culturally monolithic thing, when it's not. Basically, I always considered the whole "celebrity worship" thing to be for more "lowe

• evincarofautumn 14y ago
  ‘You treat “America” as some culturally monolithic thing, when it’s not.’ I second this. The United States alone are basically a loose collection of countries held together by the dollar and a certain amount of federal guidance. I use the term “countries” in the broader sense of “land”; they don’t necessarily correspond to state boundaries. And this is to say nothing of the rest of America.