Yet in Europe you’ll see NY Yankees hats and endless parades of print tops with ‘Imagined American’ themes everywhere.
A few years ago, I was in Germany, and was looking for a souvenir T-shirt to get for a friend. Every shirt I found with writing on it has some sort of English gibberish on it. No shirts that just said, "Mannheim", or "Deutschland".
Yankees, Bulls (a leftover from Michael Jordan), Cowboys, and Lakers are popular worldwide.
Because despite all the negative press they all want to be American!
I taught English is Prague for a short time…. I met many Czechs who wanted to come to The States to do film (like Milos Forman) or tennis or golf…