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Todd Gitlin

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Todd Gitlin

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American movies and music often focus on ideas like freedom, innocence, and power, which attract people from different backgrounds. This is because the United States was formed by combining many different national cultures, making these themes resonate widely.

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