It ' s just America is kind of weird in that it ' s truly a new nation , you look back 300 years ago what is now the US was vastly different but if you look at Europe those same countries , peoples and customs more or less exist , same for Asia . While the same is true for Latin American nations they can look back to their ancestral PreColumbian era heritage and for many Americans who want to look that far back more often than not that leads one back across the Atlantic or Pacific or south of the border . I find it very interesting , American culture has proliferated in the form of it ' s big Hollywood blockbuster movies and mainstream music and American pop culture , but at the same time throughout the 20 th century continuing on to this one America has been the melting pot and like any other country receiving new cultures and ideas we ' ve in turn assimilate their cultures and ideas , this I believe is best noticed in food like a curry or kebab in Britain or pizza or hot dog in the US . And continuing to use food as an example the foods I ' ve mentioned have been utilitarian foods that one normally doesn ' t think too much about , but they ' re iconic to Britain US even though their origins aren ' t from those countries . Japan considers curry a Japanese dish which it sort of is , they learned to make it from the Royal Navy and have tweaked it to suit their pallet much like how the British have done from the original Indian style of curry , the same can be said for many foods be it sushi , breads , pastas and etc . I ' m going on a rant at this point , but culture it ' s acceptance and assimilation is something I find fascinating