[cyborg]

If say it's freedom,economic opportunity and free exchange of ideas (really what's in the FR charter) then I'm sure someone would disagree but that's what I was taught. Popular culture is another thing. I don't know if I want Brittney Spears and 50Cent being the symbol of America around the world.

[ronnieb]

I don't disagree with any of that, devil is in the details as always, hard to say what culture is. But everyone has one, and it is not required that we be able to define it verbally in order to have one, to quote the loving spoonful, a rock group from the distant past.."It is like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll.."