You can export cultural signifiers, yeah, but the export of culture itself is based around behavior and attitude

so ex-pats and duel citizens are cultural exports

new insult for immigrates

"go home you culture export"

In a sense, but the expectation is that they assimilate to an extent

Yeah, integration into a culture is paramount

You shouldn't really be going to another country to export your culture

It's rude

Chinese food in the US did not originate in china, but it did originate from Chinese immigrates, designed for local tastes

Sure

And that's where the modifications happen

its not american culture thats taking over the world, its consumer culture of the post industrial revolution

The expansion of products and ideas, built around the same core cultural values

specifically for around things like Christmas, where everywhere would be closed but the Chinese restaurants

Rather than the product itself

very capitalist/american of them

Or the simple extension of a corporate chain

they saw a whole in the market and filled it to great success

america didint invent capitalism

Nobody said it did

America *was* the true realization of western liberal values

capitalism was a process that developted out of the middle ages through the rise of the merchent class

That's its cultural foundation

@Arch-Fiend the /american was because the american dream: start your own business and be successful. Change the hand life dealt you.

not because we invented capitalism

yeah the american dream was also the european dream

Yes, but Europe was generally feudal, not free

was, now apparently its be a slave state to germany

Bow to your King who bows to the Pope who bows to God

during this AMERICAN dream thing europe was post feudal

It was still hierarchical

It was still dealing with the effects

fucking everything is hierarchical

America was a clean slate

heirarchy does not prevent socioechonomic migration, it defines it

Hell, Europe still has a bunch of weird shit that is a holdover from the old regimes

by the time of the industrial revolution a stratified heirarchy of wealth and power already existed in the united states

Yeah, but what I'm saying is America was about freedom and making your own way. Europe was about loyalty to the state and communal/authoritarian values

Mind you, now we've got the 'States slowly undermining their core values, one by one

Even if it did that through a capitalist economy

sure there was more self centeredness in american culture relitive to european culture so you have a point there