[dogscoff]

Becasue now that we have you addicted to American culture you can't help yourself.

Well quite. It has now reached the point in the UK (and I'm sure in plenty of other countries as well) where the majority of people can't tell where US culture begins and ours ends.

And yes, we did buy into it. No-one forced us, although I'd disagree with the statement that no propaganda was used. IMHO the whole cold war was little more than a propaganda war, with the US exporting images of big cars, drive-thru movies, shiny white teeth and apparent wealth throughout the 50s and early 60s. The so-called American Dream.

But anyway, now that we have bought into (or in the case of younger generations- inherited) the American Dream, a lot of us want out. We spent thousands of years developping our own cultures and so we kind of resent having them sanitised, branded, assimilated into US culture and then sold back to us in a happy meal.