A lot of Russians believe that we’re living in the age of the Western triumph. West surrounds us everywhere. It reigns over the popular car models and at the labels of trendy clothes; it is in the photographs of pop-idols and political brands. In both literal and figurative senses, we’re dancing to the Western music. Who might doubt the triumph of the prevailed civilization?
This, however, is a provincial view from Himki or Odoevo1. This is a view of people who lived through crush of the "iron curtain" and literally lost their steps due to an avalanche of the forbidden goods that rushed from over the burst-through dam. Being in a panic we are even ready to claim the banal market relations to be the "Western achievement" though the market existed as far back as in the times of ancient Sumerians or Siam, thousands of years before the Wall Street.
At the very same time American ideologist Patrick Buchanan is writing a book named "Death of the West". Startling name was given not for the sake of an ad sensation. There’s a sincere anxiety of an American patriot not only for his country but for the whole Euro-Atlantic civilization in every single line.
WHY DIDWW

I don't think this was to be under this section, but oh well.

So you believe we are Americanizing everything and spreading "Manifest Destiny?"

If we've done that already and completely then Spanish should be your known 'third'
language already if you want it to be unless the Left somehow changes that option.

I think the reason we have some type of influence on other countrie's is our lasting
government of Democracy and the people's determination for 'free will and society'.
We keep moving forward because we unlike China or North Korea do not bind the
public into what one would want. We don't have a government that steps in and
controls you, your life, and family. This country steps in to help those in need rather
than focus on enlargening propaganda.

Not everything is American as you may see it because our America is now very
diverse and is even because of people like Pelosi giving in it's traditions to uphold
other's 'sensitive feelings'. I'm sure if that was what was truly happening in your
country then you would be angry to, but I don't think it is.