n 2,000 years, will the world remember Disney or Plato?

LONDON - Down in the mall, between the fast-food joint and the bagel[百吉饼] shop, a group of young people huddles[拥挤] in a flurry of baggy combat pants[短裤], skateboards[溜冰板], and slang. They person Inflatable Archsize up a woman teetering[步履蹒跚的] past wearing DKNY, carrying Time magazine in one hand and a latte in the other. She brushes past a guy in a Yankees' baseball cap who is talking on his Motorola cell phone about the Martin Scorsese film he saw last night.

It's a standard American scene - only this isn't America, it's Britain. US culture is so pervasive, the scene could be played company Inflatable Advertisingout in any one of dozens of cities. Budapest or Berlin, if not Bogota or Bordeaux. Even Manila or Moscow.

As the unrivaled[无敌的、至高无上的] global superpower, America exports its culture on an unprecedented scale. From music to media, film to fast food, language to literature and sport, the American idea is spreading inexorably[无情地、冷酷地], not unlike the influence of empires that preceded it.