Community Quote by Adam Gopnik

Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress…

— Alison Lurie

As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract, a…

— James Howard Kunstler

Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely…

— Simon Hoggart

I'm really interested in the United States, what it means to be American - maybe because my father's an immigrant and my grandparents were…

— Micah Perks

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion…

— Walt Disney

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere…

— Sufjan Stevens

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music,…

— Fredric Jameson

You leave America, then you go someplace else, you begin to create something totally different.

— Stephon Marbury

There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

— Emily Haines

“I adore these words, worship them actually, and yet I do not buy that part about ‘the last time in history.’ Because the narrator…

— Sarah Vowell

American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated…

— Kalle Lasn