How has the US influenced other countries?

Here's a short list:

- nuclear weapons

- military force

- motion pictures (a.k.a. movies)

- Elvis Presley

- McDonalds (fast food in general)

- iPod/iphone/ipad

- Bill Gates

- Facebook

- The internet (Al Gore invented it, didn't he?)

- global oil prices

- the Ford Mustang

- broad commercialization of pornography

- women's voting rights

- religious freedom in government

- expensive, commercialized health care

- Star Wars

- Country Music

- a television set in every living room

- opening China to the global economy

- making war profitable

- Oprah Winfrey

- Coca Cola

I could go on...