Structural analysis
Rhetorical features
American culture has been infiltrating nations all over the world over the past two decades, marginalizing traditional cultures throughout the world and bringing about the kind of global “fun” culture that Disney is famous for. In this text, Todd Gitlin reveals the trend that American culture is becoming dominant and enjoys worldwide popularity, and accounts for this cultural phenomenon.The text can be divided into the following three parts: Part I (Paragraph 1): This is the introduction where the author advances his idea that American culture is dominant over the “global village”.