This is an interesting article on issues around creating media that's... english enough to be understood by Americans, but not American enough to be completely understood by Americans, resulting in some cultural tension and miscommunication.

This part in particular stands out to me:

America’s cultural and linguistic hegemony is stifling and all-consuming. [Media is] either Familiar — made for you, an English-speaking American — or it’s steadfastly Foreign, made for people very much unlike you.

That's such a big frustration for me, personally.

I want to insert some cultural dissonance into Twelve Thousand, my visual novel (half) set in New Zealand. I want it to have elements that are distinctly New Zealand-y. The problem is that when your friends are online and in the US, but also introverted weirdos, it can be hard to tell what international culture you're assimilating.

I don't get out and about so I can't be sure what about me or how I write would come off as New Zealand flavoured either, as opposed to plausibly "neutral", or rather, American.

Also, you know, I fucking hate how we have Black Friday and other junk down here. It's not just that we're getting American culturalisms (e.g. "Santa" over "Father Christmas"), but we're getting American capitalism. I would go so far as to argue capitalism is the main driving force behind homogenising western culture, because it smooths out the bumps in marketing demographics.

It's especially egregious in dubs in the 90s. Take this example from Pokemon 2000:

"I didn't know vikings still existed."
"They mostly live in Minnesota."

Completely incomprehensible joke to anyone outside of America, and even to Americans it might not make any sense. I think it's a reference to a sports team? It doesn't even make sense in-universe, but that's just 4Kids for you.

Point is, I would be pretty happy if America stopped sticking its nose into EU and Oceanic culture. Let us have our quirks and differences. Let us express our cringey, dark, ironic humour that we use for confronting difficult issues. Let us do things in different ways that might make you uncomfortable, and don't make it out like we're wrong for it.