" In 2020 nearly eight billion diverse peoples dress, listen, talk, travel, and communicate in an increasingly homogenous manner that mostly follows the examples of those in the United States, Europe, many of the English-speaking former colonies of the British Empire, and the Asian democracies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. "

― Victor Davis Hanson , The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America