It's not a "culture" issue imho. The mainstream basically decided to promote those staged "apologies", signaling to other celebrities that they should act like that, and they did.
hey no, that may look like that in america, but even there it is not true, the deep cultural characteristics of americans (e.g. hard work) won't change if the media tells them so. Popular culture is not the whole of culture in general
I did not say it was the whole of culture. I said it was culture. In English, saying something "is" something does not mean it is only that, or that it is all of that.
