You know like... Most of the type of art you consume comes out of europe, right? Americans used to copy Paris. Avant garde filmography used to come out of Russia and the eastern block.
America was influenced by a bunch of European countries first. The statue of liberty is French, the film Dune was made by a French director, Arcane is French animated, like 50% of American sitcoms from the 90s-early 2000s are remakes of British ones, Belgium and France are both massive comics hubs, Asterix, Tintin, Spirou, Star wars is heavily inspired by the French comic Valérian (by which I mean multiple scenes are carbon copies), and that's just stuff from my neck of the woods.
If you look into stuff that is culturally "American", even stuff like star wars and the statue of liberty, you will find French art (and other European countries too!). You've likely already seen stuff out of Europe but because you tend to assume anything you like is American unless explicitly stated (like anime) you don't realise it. From Raving Rabids to the Smurfs to Arcane to Dune and back, you have seen massive french/Belgian art around you. Everyone's just out here trying to make good art and when they succeed they're influencing each other, and now travel is so much more accessible to a lot of people, art is a massive collaboration between any country, to the point you get stuff like Kpop Demon Hunters, which is made with a massive collaboration between South Korean and American artists.
