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What other great cultural gifts can America be credited for?
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Really, don't you think the truth lies halfway between? America has some great inventions/people/ideals/etc, but in reality the majority in your links are important only to North Americans. On the other hand, to suggest that America has done nothing of import stretches the point well beyond realistic, though I would argue at a cultural level they haven't done much in the last 40 years. Pop culture simply doesn't strike me as something that will be around in 300 years such as Mozart, Beethoven, Dickens, Joyce, etc. Clearly, we'll never know, but there is a reason 80's American music/TV/movies/books is most forgotten already, especially among people that weren't there at the time.