True Left

Another iconic form of American (ie. non-Western) architecture is the motel:









Prior to the Counterculture era, the motel were portrayed in movies as an implicitly non-Western place where bad things could easily happen to (Western) guests passing through:



By the 80s, in contrast, the motel appropriately acquired a new role as a sanctuary for anti-Western guests fleeing from Western civilization:



And by the 90s, the anti-Western guests (together with the similarly anti-Western motel staff!) were actually fighting back from inside the motel!