American Cultural Insularity in the Center (ACIC) is the idea that, compared to most people in most other countries, Americans tend to consume much more of their own cultural products and much fewer cultural products produced in other countries than people in other countries do. Americans do so largely because, globally, American culture is still, comparatively speaking, the dominant culture. Globally speaking, it is also the most central culture. That is, people located in cultures outside of the United States are pointed toward the American “center” much more than the other way around.
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