[Jenny30908]

I think the United States has become a de facto empire, and that it very effectively markets itself through many types of media as powerful, successful, rich, holding the moral high ground as the 'world's police force' - and, in short, as being the place where everything that is 'cool.' Dressing, acting and sounding like an American has become a kind of shorthand for being cool for many teenagers. And teenagers do shallow things (dress in whatever strange fashion is going, i.e. getting their eyebrow pierced) to try to appear cool with their friends. They also do dangerous things to appear cool (smoke, drink a lot). But I also think it's a two-way thing. America markets itself as being cool, but many people lap it up like a cat laps up cream. Some people are very easy to sell to.

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Name : Jenny30908, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 34, City : Wellington, State : NA Country : New Zealand, Occupation : Librarian, Education level : Technical School, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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