In reply to sam.

Influence comes in every form, music, fashion, hairstyles etc...All these things influence people, especially when people of different backgrounds live in one place. The US is the perfect example of this, you got black people straightening their hair (and don't come to me with that black people were told their hair was ugly bs), white people getting cornrows, blacks and whites eating Mexican and Asian food, all this is the result of influence, things that we see daily and have an impact on us because our culture, American culture is a mix of European, African and Native American traditions, nowadays Asian and Latino traditions are already adding colors to the picture and every other group of people that comes here will have its role in it too, like I said, is the result of multicultural societies. It's something inevitable.