If you want to see what your country is like all you need to do is watch some TV. At the time, it will show you your culture and as far as I've seen, it's all Ipods and useless shit like that... oh yeah, and the Iraq war. Um... no interesting stories have come up in awhile, so why are they still covering it 24/7? That and the weather systems heading your way or all these politcians getting put away or fired/retired. All it is buying, cheap prices, convenience, thousands of products most of which have at least 10 different versions, war and violence, damn the list just doesn't end.