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From politics and war, to jeans and sneakers a look at Americas influence on the world from an international perspective On the day after 911, foreign newspapers ran headlines announcing We Are All Americans Now. Though the sentiment was not new, it was also not quite the same as when Henry Luce announced in 1941, the inauguration of what he called the American Century, during which the US was to raise all men from the level of the beasts to what the Psalmist calls a little lower than angels. When America suddenly emerged as a global power in the postwar period, the worldwith pockets of resistance from France, Russia, and Japan in particularwas happy to be remade in the US image. America dazzled, and sometimes intimidated, older, staler, less innovative cultures.