“American=bland and boring. Immigrant=interesting and vibrant.”
This is a theme that underlies much of American leftist thinking. They seem to believe that we live at the bottom of a very deep cesspit and any change, in any direction, constitutes an improvement. The law of averages states that some part of our culture, if just by accident, has to be OK, but we have managed to elude that. This self loathing informs their world view. But everyone else on the planet, well, they are trying to be like us, aren’t they?
Indeed. I can think of few places as remote as Mongolia, so (of course) I wanted to visit for the longest time. When I finally had a chance to go, I saw signs of American and generally Western culture everywhere. Outside of Ulaanbaatar, there was a big barn with a huge Minion painted on the side. In a nomad’s ger (what we typically call a yurt, but that is incorrect), I saw a Disney princess clock. Many Mongolians wear Western clothing, even out in the Gobi. Cell phones are used everywhere; there is better cell phone coverage than electrical grid coverage. And so on. There is a distinct Mongolian culture, but they have been adopting elements of Western culture pretty readily.
This phenomenon of incorporating Western/American culture elements into indigenous cultures goes on worldwide. If our culture were really so inferior, why would everyone want to emulate it?