Holden's Popularity

I was thinking about our class’s discussion on Holden’s appeal to American youth and started wondering whether that relatability was universal. Do Holden’s feelings of being a rebellious, lost, and alone teenager translate as widespread to the adolescents of different cultures? I don’t know enough about being a teenager in other cultures to confidently comment either way, but I’d imagine the search for one’s “self” happens to most everyone. Still, something about Holden’s experience seems distinctly American. Maybe it’s the high school setting and his interactions with his classmates, or his relationship with his parents, or the accessibility he has to alcohol and women. I think the fact that Holden goes to boarding school is a very important detail and the story would probably be different if he lived at home with his family. The same goes for him being in a city, where many of the events of the novel would not have taken place in a rural town or even suburbs. Certainly in some other cultures this wouldn’t be the case for the average teenager, who might have a job (and with that some feeling of place and purpose) at that age. So the main question I have is whether The Catcher in the Rye has been translated into many other languages and whether or not the novel has the same appeal and popularity in other cultures as it does in America.