> This is digital imperialism, American ideas and values are inconspicuously spread through memes (in the original sense of the term) and foreign children, teenagers and young adults are raised on them.

This has been going on since missionaries, perhaps going back to the original Apostles, started travelling the planet:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_Wor...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25227902

The fact that it is now American, as opposed to some European country, is just a recent phenomenon.