The United States is the truest melting pot of any country, of any nation, which ever existed in this world, so that we have peoples representing every single race, creed, color, national origin, and every possible religion conceived of by man. The greatest thing about America is somehow all of these various peoples for the most part, see themselves as true Americans, believe in their country, love their country, and are proud to be citizens of this great country. This type of belief is all to the credit of this nation and for which it stands, and certainly is not the norm for in many other countries there are massive clear cut divisions between those that are categorized as native-born, of the right milieu and thereby privileged, and those that are non-natives, of the wrong milieu and thereby segregated and oppressed.
It would be nice, if there was just a special substance within America, that simply made it in all practices and practicality a country of meritocracy and fair opportunity, but unfortunately, there is that ideal of America and there is that reality of America, and they are not the same thing. Those that run this nation, and the businesses that heavily influence this nation, know this, so that they have created, over a period of time, the propaganda machine that is incredibly effective in appealing to the people so that we as a nation, we as a people, have basically common outlooks and common desires, despite disparate lives which belie our collective common cause.
All of us are influenced by others, even if we believe that we are not, to wit, the people that we respect the most, that we live with or associate with, have influence upon us that is incorporated into our being as well as we having influence on them. Each of us, also, utilizes mass media, and social networks, each and every day, whether it be through the internet, tablets, smart phones, television, podcasts, radio, print media, or the like, as people have an innate desire to be informed, entertained, stay current, keep up with others, and so on. However, these media voices, certainly the ones that have the biggest audiences and the most influence, are not random in the way that they present and perceive information and impart such news to their constituencies, as they collectively, have a raison d'être.
That is why, so often, when you learn of a story from one network, the same story in a slightly different form, but essentially the same, is repeated at a different network, this signifying that powerful interests want to impart information to you in the same basic way because it is fundamentally important to those influential outlets that you are on the same page with them. This, done often enough, helps to mold the people as a whole into one cohesive unit, where the only basic choice that the media outlets want you to make is either "A" or "B", and nothing else, with sometimes "A" winning out, and sometimes "B" winning out, just to make it seem like that the game has real consequences and real choice.
In point of fact, although "A" and "B" appear to be at conflict with each other, in practicality, it's more actually like dealing with two sides of the very same coin, and this coin is the coin of the realm, controlled by powerful governmental and business interests, that desperately want your desires to be the same as what they are selling, which is your cooperation in pursuing materialistic objectives as well as a core belief that whatever foreign escapades that America puts its nose in, America always gets it right.