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Gitlin makes the point that the real responsibility of the exporting of American culture lies not on American imperialism, which he believes is the easy scapegoat, but in the demand for flash good times from other countries. He believes that the melting pot of cultures that is America has a strong multicultural appeal as well, with flashy action that at some points doesn't even require fluent English to understand. I agree with Gitlin in that there is a major demand across the globe for American merchandise, movies, and celebrity news more than any other country and that it is the main driving force behind culture change throughout the world. But one thing I noticed about Gitlin's writing is that he seemed to be attempting to diagnose a problem with his writing, as if dying world cultures were his patients and American culture was a kind of infectious disease. I find the expansion of American culture to be a positive. I think it proves there is common ground between all nations and that the people of planet Earth really aren't all that different from each other. Maybe this is at the expense of sectional individuality throughout the world, but I am not in any way upset by the global culture trend of the age.