I think your definition of culture is a bit weird too. In this kind of discussion, I think of culture as basically everything about groups of people which makes them distinct from other groups of people - except biology (though cultural differences may be caused by differences in biology). So it has to do with behaviour, values and so on.
Since you're concerned with capitalism and how it affects culture, couldn't you say that America has a culture of consumerism? You have comparatively more of it than we do, so it is one of the things that add to the distinctness of your culture compared to ours.
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