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Line 1: {{~~work~~trope}} {{quote\|'''The Doctor''': You think you can just ''shoot'' me? '''River Song''': They're Americans! Line 53: {{quote\|''For some reason, the people I meet in my country are not the same as the ones I knew in the United States. A mysterious change seems to come over Americans when they go to a foreign land. They isolate themselves socially. They live pretentiously. They're loud and ostentatious. Perhaps they're frightened and defensive, or maybe they're not properly trained and make mistakes out of ignorance.''\|William Lederer and Eugene Burdick\|''[[The Ugly American]]'', 1958}} {{quote\|''The Americans are our best friends whether we like it or not.''\|Canadian politician Robert Norman Thompson, quoted by Peter C. Newman in ''Home Country: People, Places, and Power Politics''}} {{tropesubpagefooter}}