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Given the American combination of strength and spirit, it was historically inevitable that the U.S. should serve as a model to many nations in the world's postwar climb toward modernization and greater affluence. As models go in an imperfect world, it has been a good one. In that sense, the problem is not whether the world is too Americanized but whether it is Americanized enough: whether the many millions who have not yet been exposed to the material advantages of American society can be guided toward them without revolution and discord. Even if that happens, though, the world will never become a grade-A, U.S.-inspected, homogenized world. It is too full of diversity for that, and the U.S. is a powerful part of that diversity.