shrekfan246 said:
They... were referring to the ease with which you can supposedly get heavy armaments in America, not the color scheme.
Indeed. Malls are really more or less on life support in most of the parts of the country I've visited in the last couple of years. With the death of many brick-and-mortar staples (book stores, record stores, video stores, etc) and with many of the big anchor chains (Macy's, Sears, etc) barely surviving, malls have been reduced to phone stores, candle shops, kitchen knick-knacks, the occasional Sephora, and a whole endless sea of Deb, Forever 21, and other such trendy clothing stores primarily targeting young women.
Oddly enough, Asia seems to have the kinds of malls that many think of as screaming "Murica!" much more so than the US does. I was at a mega-mall, and they really have some ungodly huge malls, in Thailand not long ago where you could get any kind of electronic gadget imaginable, your fill of McDonalds or any dozens of other western foodstuffs, your choice of a wide variety of pseudo-medical treatments that might or might not make you look younger and/or give you cancer or possibly a superpower, all the hentai you could imagine, your choice of the most cheaply made clothes I've ever seen (many complete with hilariously bad or embarrassing English phrases included), an entire shop dedicated to Crocks (why?)... Just pretty much anything imaginable and many things I would prefer not knowing about. All that, and there were shops and even kiosks in the main thoroughfare with enough weapons to arm a military junta (something the Thais know more than a tad bit about) right there on the counter.
Kinda weird to have to go to Asia if you want to see a stereotypically American mall, but there you have it.