Response to "Americanization"

The author claims that America has a natural aura of culture which has spread across the globe. He or she says that due to America's role as a super power many countries across the world want to adopt our culture as their own by acquiring our fast food chains, our clothing, our movies and everything else that makes America, America.
I believe there is an argument here but it is too general. To say that globalization and americanization are synonyms makes for a very vulnerable argument, a statement like this will be challenged immensely and will be very difficult to defend. By saying that globalization and americanization are synonyms the author appears to assume that every single country wants to adopt American culture. While this may be a generalization of the worlds opinion as a whole through the 20th century I find it hard to believe the opinion is consistent through the 21st century. With America's controversial international actions, poorly perceived government and our suffering economy I have trouble believing other countries still want to be "just like us".
This leads to my spin on the author's argument:
Instead of claiming that globalization and americanization may be the same thing, he or she could do some research as to how the international attitude towards America may have changed over the decades. The argument that the attitude changed or didn't change would be a very solid argument that could be thoroughly defended with enough research.