America emerged as a superpower at late 40´s and 50´s, after save the allies from a certain defeat with the Nazis of Adolf Hitler and after help in the reconstruction of Europe. The marketing of the so called “American Dream” started at this point and America was an example for everyone. We like their movies, their series, their brands, their celebrities, their sports, their culture, their music and their art, all of their media and so one. We started to love America!
Probably, when you think in an alternative reality for you, you think it in America. It happens to me and it happens with a lot of people. I know it because I´ve had a great example in my classroom. When my teacher ask us to think in an alternative synopses for the play Romeo and Juliet almost all of my classmates chose the United States as the set. Some people have already told me that sometimes they think they know best the United States than they know his own country. This is called Americanization and, in this particularly way, this is the Americanization of our thoughts.
To relate this issue with “Suits” and with all series in general I’ve got some great examples of this Americanization of our thoughts. How many people have chosen a life career based on one American TV’s series/film/show as a medical series or a lawyers one (like House M.D. or Suits)?! Luis Filipe Borges, a Portuguese comedian with a degree on Law School, came to my school and admitted that he chose advocacy due to the influence of an American TV´s series but in the end, he was very disappointed because it was not like he saw on TV and I bet it was just a case among a lot of other ones like this.
Concluding, the rise and influence of the United States of America over the world began more than seventy years ago and it seems that it will continue for a long period of time.
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