There is a tension in cultural anthropology and cultural sociology between the claim that culture is a universal and that it is also particular. The idea of cultural universals runs contrary in some ways to cultural relativism which was, in part, a response to Western ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism may take obvious forms.
Wonder Bread was originally produced by the Taggart Baking Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, and debuted on May 21, 1921, after a blind promotion with ads that only stated a Wonder was coming on May 21, 1921.
Rapper's Delight, released in November 1979, was a serious push to get a rap record into the mainstream, and it worked, cracking the US Top 40 in January 1980 and becoming a seminal song in hip-hop history. The winning formula was boastful lyrics over a sampled beat - a technique that became ubiquitous in rap.