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Originally Posted by Acajack
African-Americans still know Jimmy Kimmel even though he's white. White Americans are familiar with hiphop and star players in the NBA.
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Internationally, many non-Americans consume American media too.
If a Canadian watches more American media than Canadian media, does that make him or her more American than Canadian?
What about Americans that go out of their way to consume world media (eg. BBC radio, Eurovision, or Bollywood movies or K-pop or whatever). If an American spends more hours in a day watching or listening to these than homegrown media, does it make him/her less American?
Alternatively, if individuals in an ethnic community such as the Amish chooses to avoid watching American TV or mass media, does that make them less American?
There are some people who think that civic nationalism is the way to go and the sum totality of all citizens/nationals of a country have an equal claim to "belonging to that country", and no one has to go out of their way to do anything besides living in that country and contributing to that society as a citizen, as opposed to the idea that there has to be a common shared culture, be it media, food, dress, other forms of culture etc., where some individuals, regardless of whether foreign-born or native-born partaking in it makes you belong and rejecting it makes you "un-(insert name of nationality here)".