Gun violence should no longer be tolerated and accepted as a uniquely all-American value.
Yet as damaging as we admit it to be, loneliness may be an All-American value.
State recognition of same sex marriage is about freedom, an all-American value, more libertarian than liberal.
Therefore all Americans value the Delta.
Houston was in love with her best friend, Robyn Crawford; there was no room in her persona, designed to refract all-American values back to her fans, for bisexuality.
In 1991, the critic David Browne wrote of Brooks, "with his meat-and-potatoes image, goony grin and virtuous all-American values, he is the Kevin Costner of country".
One is the heroic alien who happens to stand for all-American values and the other is the gruff, sometimes incomprehensible, detective driven to fight crime after the murder of his parents.
At the very least, A Dame to Kill For should give us a two-hour break from masked crimefighters, robosuited megageniuses and superpowered extra-terrestrials with conveniently all-American values.
In fact, a lot of commercial British films, like The Full Monty and its anti-Chippendales stripper troupe, seem to be set up as a bluff riposte to all-American values.
From the moment they can focus on a screen, wall-to-wall princesses are sold hard to them by entertainment giant Disney, whose all-American values clearly do not extend to republicanism.
The fact that a mainland advert is in your face with its appeal to filial piety does not necessarily mean much, because it can be just as unbearably heavy-handed as ads with all-American values, of which there are also examples.
