China welcomes Mulan but would have preferred Mickey Mouse.
Bombs go off in a Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town.
If Americans notice these events, they respond either by pointing out that cultural restrictions are not only antidemocratic but also thinly disguised economic protectionism, or by feeling embarrassed and guilty over the power of their trashy culture-or both. Yet small-town Americans, as Emily Thorson points out, often react with the same outrage to a proposed new Walmart.