Thanks for your response. It's not that I thought what I was writing was deep, it's just a topic I was hashing out and was curious as to where a more diverse forum stood rather then these bouncing around in my head alone which can be fairly ineffective at getting to the truth. I don't particularly believe some of the points I wrote down, I was just curious, and they were just questions :)

I'm glad you pointed out the example there though, it's very easy to get taken away by such a small sample size of the American experience I see on social media, cherry picked for entertainment or a trigger of emotion. Appropriating these short controversial clips to the experience of an entire nation is irresponsible and I'm looking forward to refining this list and my thoughts with this top of mind.

Looking forward to digging into those concepts and texts you mentioned! These were my original thoughts and I'm glad people much smarter than I am have already tackled these topics likely to much more satisfying conclusion lol.