KingJaja: My comment about assimilation had to do only with Rome some 2000 years ago. It had nothing to do with American cultural influence, or lack thereof.

I knew about Bollywood but I didn't know about Nollywood. I have seen some Kenyan and Nigerian soap operas though. The Nigerian one was more shoot-em-up. The Kenyan one revolved around a father. That was the first I ever saw that took that point of view.

Cultural influence waxes and wanes with the times I suppose. We had an inordinate amount of influence for a long time, perhaps because we caught on to what sells in movies quicker and shortly thereafter the rest of the world was wrecked by WWII. WWII was a long time ago and the rest of the world has caught up.