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Originally posted by Melchior:
Except that American cultural imperialism is at work through television, movies, advertising and products. It doesn't need to be present in the same way Greeks did, for the values to be transmitted.
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Which is actually an argument that we don't need this, or any, war to spread our hegemony. Believe me, one of the last reasons we'd go to war is to make some other country want to be like us. There's plenty of that to go around already.
And yes, we are an extension of the European culture. In the past 200-300 years we've developed many distinct differences, but we're all children of Plato when you get right down to it.