问答题 LONDON—Down in the mall, between the fast-food joint and the bagel shop, a group of young people huddles in a flurry of baggy combat pants, skateboards, and slang. They size up a woman teetering past wearing DKNY, carrying Time magazine in one hand and a latte in the other. She brushes past a guy in a Yankees' baseball cap who is talking on his Motorola cell phone about the Martin Scorsese film he saw last night. It's a standard American scene—only this isn't America, it's Britain. US culture is so pervasive, the scene could be played out in any one of dozens of cities. Budapest or Berlin, if not Bogota or Bordeaux. Even Manila or Moscow. As the unrivaled global superpower, America exports its culture on an unprecedented scale. From music to media, film to fast food, language to literature and sport, the American idea is spreading inexorably, not unlike the influence of empires that preceded it.

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【答案解析】伦敦——沿着购物街向下，一群年轻人穿着松松垮垮的短裤，脚踩溜冰板，满嘴俚语，你追我赶，穿行于连锁快餐店与百及饼屋之间。他们会对一位路过的女士点评一番，她身穿DKNY的时装，一手拿着时代杂志，一手端拿铁咖啡，走起路来风姿绰约。一个家伙与她擦身而过，他头戴纽约扬基队的棒球帽，边走边用MOTO手机与朋友狂侃昨夜刚看的Martin Scorsese导演的电影。这本是一幅标准的美国式的画面——只是实际发生在英国，而非美国。美国文化已随处可见，现在世界上每天都有几十个城市——布达佩斯，柏林，波哥大，波尔多，甚至马尼拉和莫斯科，都在上演这样的场景。作为世界上唯一的超级大国，美国将自己的文化推广到前所未有的范围。从音乐到传媒，从电影到快餐，从语言、文学到体育，美国价值观以不可抵挡之势传播着，与之前的帝国扩张不无相似。