The worst effect of American culture is that

the sighing was directed at the Arabs line of replies because i think you missed my point.

as for the Maori thing, the solution to the fratboyification isn't to try to copyright your culture and whine about people liking it.
 
I supposed marketing your own culture and shoving it down the throat of the world is a better idea. I fail to comprehend why it is wrong to try to protect your own culture, especially if it is insulary like theirs (and ours too BTW)).

BTW I got the point of the arab thing, you on the other didn't get mine (hint: I don't like people laughing at other people's culture when they don't know the slightest thing about it)
 
mindspell, one characteristic of xfer's (and many of his associates') humor is to assert things that everyone knows to be blatantly wrong. The "funny" in it is the very fact that it's a ludicrous assertion.