How are influences from American movies, comics, or consumer culture evident in art of other countries?

For example, has American pop culture influenced art throughout the world? Is the influence beneficial or detrimental to other country's culture?|||I can only speak for my own country. And yes, American culture has a huge influence! How could it be otherwise?95% of the movies we watch are American ( today was "United 93" premiere...), our kids star da day watching "Disney Kids" on TV and go to "MC Donald's" for lunch, we order dinner at "Pizza Hut" and before going to bed we watch Conan or Jay Leno or "CSI" or "Desperate Housewives".


Is this bad? I don't Think so. It certainly was one of the things that molded my personality as I was growing - I started learning English before going to school, thanks to "Bonanza" and "Star Trek", had a skateboard and listened to Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen....


But this never made me loose track of my own roots and culture. I think it made me a richer person, with a much more open mind. In my opinion the exchange of cultures is to be encouraged.