American Culture

I found our disscussion yesterday on American Culture very shocking and almost appalling. If you look at the list of things that we described it really makes you think about what America stands for. You look at countries all around us and when you think of their cultures you think of traditions, rituals and yes while they have many negative things in their culture I feel like a lot of that is influenced but our "American culture" For example food chains have become very popular over seas and in our neighboring countries. Reality t.v., while in my geog class the other day some of the things we have talked about actually overlap those lectures and my professor was talking about while he was in I believe it was Italy his wife was watching The Newlyweds, and he has conducted numerous studies and done research on things like this and he found that MTV intl or whatever the version of MTV is, it's like the second watch thing in their countries. I just found that astonishing.
As our country continues to grow we will produce more characteristics of this "American Culture" and the more I think about it, is that honestly what we want. Do we want these other countries to adapt such ridiculous ideas. To me it feels like our country is in a downfall because of these ideas and they continue to grow more and more everyday, taking less emphasis off morals, values, integrity and pride and putting more emphasis on entertainment.