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I think there's a little more to it than that.
Yes, there's the fact that American culture is very dominant in pop culture and we've exported our culture around the world. As the Rammstein song goes, "We're all living in America"
But there's also the fact that we're a melting pot and we've happily appropriated bits and pieces of culture from everywhere else and integrated them into our own, and the lines get murky about where those other cultures end our our own begins.
And there's not really one American culture, we're rugged cowboys, and we're Hollywood movie stars, we're fat assholes and we're health conscious hippies, we live in modern cities, suburban sprawl, rural farmland, mountains, forests, frozen hellscapes, wide open plains, deserts, we're gun nuts, and we're pacifist vegans, jocks and nerds, some of the richest people on earth, and homeless on the streets and everything in between, and every part of the country does things just a little differently, so it can be hard to pick out things that are truly emblematic of Americans as a whole.
Its part of being a good sized country. Russia, China and anywhere else that's bigger doesn't have one culture either.
while correct, my rebuttal to that is most of Russia's people and culture is in eastern eroupe and smaller in size land size to two Texas (roughly I'm estimating in my head please prove me wrong i love to learn) The rest is mostly exploited territory with exploited people. They are not really apart of the Russian culture but also not really allowed to have their own sadly.
As with China I agree they are similar to the US distribution of people but the CCP tries their hardest to stamp that out. Hong Kong is a good example of that as much as it is political one.
What's the size of two Texas?
Roughly the western part of of Russia where most of the Russian population lives Moscow, St Petersburg that area. the area I think of when EuroRussian vs Asian Russian.