America's Media Vs. the Rest of the World's Media

America's media is very self centered. Most other countries have their own media influences but most of the time this never reaches Americans because most Americans are not interested in these things so our media does not cover them. In other countries on the other hand, American media and influence is everywhere. When I was in France over the summer, most of the time when my family turned on the radio in the car, American music was played. I find it kind of annoying when my American friends cannot appreciate foreign productions just because they are not American. It makes it seem like Americans have some sort of superiority complex even though foreign media productions can be just as good as the best media productions in America. Even foreign news does not interest many Americans. The only reason that I am now more interested in current events that occur in other countries is that I've had to do current event write-ups for my history class every week. I find it somewhat disappointing that creations that appear on foreign media are ignored because of this superiority complex. For example when Gary Johnson was interviewed and asked about Aleppo, Syria, he had no idea what Aleppo even was. This is a little bit of an extreme example, but to a large degree it portrays this narcissism that American's have, that clouds the rest of the world from their view. I also think that American media influences foreign media and vice versa. I've found that foreign music often sounds a lot like mainstream American music, which could benefit the foreign artists because America has such a big influence on popularity. It is hard to determine which influenced the other because in America, it would be so easy for an American musical artist to copy the work of a foreign artist and label it as their own, because Americans don't pay attention to foreign music at all. There are so many talented musical artists from other countries that get ignored because of the American superiority complex in media. Some examples include Stromae, who has been recognized in America for his talent but is by no means widely known, MZ, and Nekfeu. All of these artists are French because even I am guilty of only paying attention to American media sometimes and my dad, who is an immigrant from France, is the one that exposes me to foreign musical artists a lot of the time.

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