[chfalck]

>cultural adoption reproducing itself … what? You’ve gone to great lengths here to fabricate a phrase that is semantically equivalent to “influence” in the most obfuscated way possible.

>cultural hegemony See previous … what?

Let’s get down to brass tax.

A does foo. B notices A has done foo. B decides it will also do foo. A has influenced B.

There are other aspects about the original comment which were better targets than attacking the meaning of “influence”, such as America’s status as a melting pot whose traditions are in great part just the collection of influences from the multitude of ethnicities which can be represented by the single term “American”. Thinking America has such dramatic unique influence while ignoring its composition of influences from other cultures is not giving honest context. That’s the part I would have gone after.