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Exporting American Pop Culture

The following seven documents comment directly or indirectly on the effects of exporting American pop culture to the rest of the world.

Sources

  1. Thomas L. Friedman, The Revolution Is U.S.
  2. Heather Havrilesky, Besieged by “Friends”
  3. Deirdre Straughan, Cultural Hegemony: Who’s Dominating Whom?
  4. Kwame Anthony Appiah, from The Case for Contamination
  5. Josef Joffe, The Perils of Soft Power
  6. Joseph S. Nye Jr., The U.S. Can Reclaim “Smart Power”
  7. Hassan Ammar, Slovakian Soccer Fan at 2010 World Cup in South Africa (photo)

After you have read, studied, and synthesized these pieces, enter the conversation by responding to one of the prompts on page 874.