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/^t/It is enough to look at children. Having watched hundreds of American films, they dress, behave and speak like their American contemporaries. The American behaviour is not foreign or strange for us anymore; we adopted it and it became our own. Watching an American movie we are less surprised by the characters' behaviour than watching a Polish film. Even the American sense of humour, which is said to be so difficult to translate, is more comprehensible than the one of Germans, Czechs or Russians. The American culture, probably thanks to its variety and versatility, has entered our TV sets and our minds without any murmur at it.