Up to them, right?

I realize that this is probably an unpopular position to take, but while everyone is complaining about the US and its domination of pop culture in other societies, we should take a look back and remember, it's all up to them.

People in other societies make their own decisions when they decide to consume media from the United States. I have heard a lot of people say that the US should stop being so domineering and stop shoving our culture into other countries, but those countries have apparently accepted our media. I think that it is pretty obvious that, in the US, where there is a profit to be made, someone is willing to step up and make it. Therefore, when other countries offer to pay for pop culture from our country, someone is always going to be willing to sell it to them. That's not domineering, that's just business.

I also hear a lot of people say that the US pop culture is destroying the culture of other countries and we should just let them keep their own culture. The problem with that is that obviously consumers in other countries are asking for US products. It is their own decision to consume the US pop culture if they want to. I don't think that it is the place of the United States to act as a censor for what people from other countries can and cannot consume,

Another important thing to remember is that culture isn't static. While the pop culture that the US is putting out right now may be exclusively US culture, if it becomes widespread enough, maybe it will someday become a global culture.

Why should the US limit or stop the exporting of its pop culture? If other countries want to consume it, it should be up to them, right?