Okay, this is a stoner ramble:

It's like when the brits moved over to america they decided that in breaking with the past they would leave behind the stuffiness of the old world, and somehow that's passed down to the present generation in a manner that conveys through action not awareness (kids, generational slant etc) that emotion should never be tempered (reality has impact there obs) and nothing should be done but by the natural emotional response to the senario.. gah not wording.. Like security guards and the people at airports that tell you to strip, they have notorious reputations for being dicks (so naturally the job will seem appealing to people who fear-they-have/like-to-have a reputation for that sort of thing.. not many but if there's enough perpetuate that myth through a few cycles of popular culture, well things have a way of crystallising in the mass-consciousness of american pop culture.. which again might be, maybe, you never know in this wide world, an entirely unaware push away from the archaic method of population control by stiffling stories (news etc) that's been alive and well in the uk for time immemorial. My point is, american get a lot of flak for being wild and colourful.... look where the founders came from... I'm just saying, it's raining again here.

Cultures can't be a person or an idea. By virtue of what humanity is and how time and life happen, there's a tapestry of wonderful stuff that's far too vast to ever follow. (Governments try, it's sort-of their job not really but I can forgive them getting confused that way). Maybe if we look at where we come from and wonder (not questioning, just wondering) how we got here, maybe we can learn something. I've been fascinated by the US for a long time because I look over the pond and see examples of things we do wrong. That's why a global culture will work. Culture is massive. And diversity makes us stronger.