If a thing is adopted everywhere, then...yes, it would be a universal concept. Sure, it would remain an American invention but that's not what was being said.

It's like saying cars are a German concept, because they were invented there. And electronic TVs are American concepts. The rest of the world may have adopted them nowadays but "they are still uniquely German and American concepts."

"Only the American mind would conceive of 'TVs', other cultures may adopt and ape it but it remains American."

"Nothing but the German psyche could generate the concept of 'cars'. Sure, other countries have adopted 'cars', and apply it by themselves, but it's primarily a German concept."

Yeah, sure, let's see what the link says about Japan.

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Oh. Japan doesn't appear in the link.

But you clearly wouldn't have posted a link without reading it first and checking whether it supports the "facts" you claim, wouldn't you? It would be really embarrassing to do something like that, so clearly you wouldn't do that, right? Right?

In fact, if you read through all the countries in your link, most countries only have laws against crossing red lights or crossing the road next to a pedestrian crossing.

In Japan, the only thing that's illegal in the context of jaywalking is crossing the road at a red light, and even that is only very rarely fined.

Ah, then I guess planes are American concepts.

I guess I'm starting to understand why eurotrash ends up so mad at America, your entire lives are simply full of Western concepts! Imagine that.

Life was so much better before the Western concept of flushable toilets.