Do you agree that Americans prefer quantity over quality? Whatexamples can you point to to defend or challenge this charge?

yes, for example fast fashion. Most People rather more cheap fashionable clothes than expensive sustainable clothes.

frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.