alt Hacker News>There's no real Us culture to preserve.
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The easiest way to see it is look at Japanese portrayals (outsider perspective). Cowboys, horses, guns, pride in our military and our free speech, fireworks and BBQs.
Just because you look down on the culture doesn't mean there isn't one.
That's one subset of Americans and not representative of all.
NYC and Los Angeles are the biggest cultural exporting centers in the US and have none of that.