Yes, the US is engaged in imperialism, neo-colonialism and the imposition of its values and culture (via Donald Sensing).
It has always struck me that complaints about American cultural influence are really about aesthetics, not morality. What, exactly, is more crass about American football than European? What is morally inferior about wanting a quick lunch at McD’s? What is more cultured and sophisticated about, say, getting trampled by bulls in Pamplona than, say, a monster truck rally?