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‘The Simpson's' an American Popular Culture phenomenon?

American popular culture has a tremendous effect on the everyday people. The fields of television film and pop music are dominated by media representations produced in the USA. The invasion of the American popular culture has been so powerful that many people get most of their information about the world through American films and television shows. "Popular culture enthusiasts are thus absorbed into a situation where American-made popular culture texts inevitably affect their worldviews" (Mikko Vaatainen, 2002), whether they want them or not. The perspectives to real-life phenomena offered by American popular culture products are bound to be one-sided. Yet, they are a central aspect in the forming of people's conceptions concerning the world. The popular television series, ‘The Simpson's' can be seen as an example of an American popular culture that has radically affected not only America but the whole world.

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