American cultural dominance persists while older Western cultural powers decline

Evidence

As much as this book attempts to offer a global cultural history of the twenty-first century, the focus on the most influential individuals admittedly overrepresents the United States. Despite decades of globalization, American cultural dominance persists through Hollywood films, Silicon Valley platforms, streaming TV shows, and pop idols. There was also a notable decline in influence from previous cultural powerhouses: The UK’s dominance in pop music faded, as did the centrality of French, German, and Italian auteurs in cinema. That said, international cross-pollination has accelerated, with American culture now facing competition from Latin and Caribbean pop, European luxury brands, Korean music and beauty products, Japanese streetwear, and Scandinavian fast fashion and hygge. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 36

Categorization

• SEED: A chart of who dominates global popular culture in the 2020s, contrasting surviving US primacy against fading European and UK influence and rising Asian and Latin competition.
• XREF: connects to: Human attention has been reduced to a monoculture like American farmland — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 486