Has the world been culturally colonised by the US?

This thought struck me last week when I was reading an article in TOI about Shekar Kapur's visit to India to launch Virgin Comics. The theme of Virgin Comics is to provide readers,comics with their regional characters and stuff. Shekar Kapur had mentioned ' After Second World War the world has been culturally colonised by the US' and their effort is to provide readers with stuff which they can appreciate and relate better.

This observation really made me thinking, are we really colonised culturally by the US? I guess it is correct to a greater extent. We see Hollywood movies, listen to their music,eat at Big Mac, Pizza Hut, KFC. We sip Coke and Pepsi, we wear American clothes. I mean the more I thought, the more this realisation dawned on me that 'AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE' has crept in our life in a major way.

I tried analysing what is that American ways are so dominant in our life? I guess the answer lies in the fact everyone wants to follow the successful and become like it. I think it has also been the norm of life.Thank god at least we dont 'LEFT HAND DRIVE' in India.