Foreign Influences on American Culture in the 20Th Century

The Americanization of the world is a myth. Americas cultural relationships with other countries are not one-sided. Instead, the relationship is reciprocal. Americans have always depended on foreign ideas, talent, immigrants, and refugees to contribute to developments in American painting, architecture, music, and films. As a result, Americas culture as been globally popular not because it turned the world into a replica of the United States, but because the United States is a replica of the world