We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.