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MTV had a huge influence. it was amazing and great.
so did Nickelodeon and saturday morning cartoons.
VHS/Videogame rentals in supermarkets made you look forward to going shopping with your mom so you coudl get a new game/horror movie
America was implicitly white european nation, so you learned European style fairy tales that descend from HC Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. All characters were portrayed as white.
Disney classics with racist stereotypes like pic related were still common. You felt a connection to the old southern culture, it was cozy. I had 8" disney song vinyl records i vaguely remember.
No cell phones. Pay phone booths everywhere and used often when out of the house.
Saw the evolution of gaming consoles from 2bit to 3D to internet/online, tech moved incredibly fast.