American Pop Culture: The Negative Impacts Of American Culture

Americans describe America by our love of liberty, our efforts to reach out with the hands of democracy, and our extensive freedoms of religion, speech, and just about everything else. This is the view that our country wants to promote and the view that our country want all other countries to aspire to be. Our television shows are better, our food is better, our music is better, our lives are better, our pop culture is better, our country is better. Unfortunately, when the pushing of our popular media and culture comes to the shoving of American ideas down the throats of foreign countries that is when American pop culture starts being seen in a more negative light. Most of the world scoffs at the words, “American Culture” simply because the

To the rest of the world, we are idiot, gun slingers that do drugs, party, and have sex with strangers on a daily basis. Due to the rapid and constant export of “American culture”, many countries are inclined to believe false assertions about America and it’s people. American media and popular culture infiltrates many countries and traditional cultures around the world causing for a negative view of America, its people, and a negative effect on the country and it’s cultures that it infiltrates. The American media should be used to spread all the good that America is doing around the world, not used to force our “culture” onto others because we think it is better. We expect the world to love and aspire to be like our nation but that is not achieved by spreading our popular culture, it is achieved by showing the world that we are a land of opportunity, not a land of drug using, sex addicts. Once America’s popular culture starts to include our nobel prize winners, our top scientists, and our nation’s achievements instead of rappers and movie stars, maybe then our pop culture can be seen a positive way. Unfortunately, the day that America decides it’s media should include achievements rather than eye candy, is the same day that Kanye West admits that he isn’t the center of the universe. God help