When Americans think about themselves in comparison to the rest of the world, the common thought is that people adapt to our customs and culture. In sports we see basketball growing in popularity throughout the world, food places like Subway and McDonalds growing in overseas numbers like never before, and American singers and bands going on more international tours to places like Singapore or Shanghai, Europe, Dubai, and South Africa. Cowboy Chicken shows that the lifestyles we take for granted in America is actually quite the opposite in terms of the world accepting our customs too. Something as simple as the concept of wages and the idea of tipping is a foreign concept outside of North America. Cowboy Chicken talks about how he is making more money than his dad was in a few weeks of work. The American-centric capitalistic approach to the economy is still not always a shared concept with countries with harder regulation or with countries like China where the economy was once a closed socialist approach but has since grown to more of a mixed model in doing business. With that, the question then is why us Americans believe that the world revolves around us? Growing up I think many Americans did not even understand why we had to learn the metric system if we have our own system here that we are used to. A system remind you that is only shared by Myanmar(Burma) and Liberia, a country we founded and has their capital named after our 5th president. I think the idea that Americans believe they have the world always looking at them comes out of how we are taught. As a result of the Cold War from the 50s to the 90s, we look at the world from a view that Americans saved the world from Communism when the Iron Curtain fell and the Soviet Union dissolved in the 90s. We fought not only a political and economic war against the communist ideology but also an educational one. We were taught we had an impact on the world today and that the US is the sole Police power after the cold war ended. Regardless of that is true or not is another argument but it does show how Americans sometimes bite off more than they can chew when it comes to how the world views us. China is still growing as a power and although they have not reached us just yet, the door is not closed for them to be an equal geopolitical adversary with a command economy that is growing at a faster rate. It does indicate that although one Cold War against a Communist super power ended almost 30 years ago, a new may just be approaching the horizon.