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{{trope}}
{{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''}}
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* [[Lovecraft Country]]
* [[Motor City]]
* [[Only in Florida]] and its offshot [[Only in Miami]]
* [[Oppressive States of America]]: Left-leaning works with Oppressive may have an Eagleland type 2.
* [[Sweet Home Alabama]]
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* The ''Yoroiden Samurai Troopers/[[Ronin Warriors]]'' OAV "Gaiden" takes place mostly in [[Big Applesauce|New York City]], although they manage to feature some action in [[Hollywood California|Los Angeles]] towards the end for good measure. Apparently, the OAV's [[Big Bad]] carries out his attacks in Manhattan even though his base of operations is located in L.A. The 3000-mile distance between the two cities doesn't mean anything to him...or to the writers.
* ''[[Pluto]]'s'' America expy "Thracia" is fairly benign, although its leader is quick to give power to the [[Man Behind the Man|Machine Behind The Man]].
* The "Hollywood World" episode of ''[[
=== Comic Books ===
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* Orvil Newton from ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'' (or How I Flew From London To Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes) is a classic Type 1: loud and rough around the edges, but the most honest, fair and likable guy you'll care to meet. He even throws the race (and the astronomical prize he needs to get home again) to save another pilot in distress.
* ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'': [[The Dragon]] sarcastically claims that Americans are Type 1, who don't drink, don't smoke, and live long, healthy, uninteresting lives.
=== Literature ===
* ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]'' has a pretty good example of type 1 in Quincey Morris. One of Lucy's three suitors, he's presented as a cowboy-type from Texas, informal but friendly and honorable. Strangely, although repeatedly described by his friends as a man of action, he doesn't engage in all that much of it {{spoiler|until he suffers a mortal wound fighting the gypsies that protect Dracula's coffin at the end and striking one of the fatal blows to kill Dracula.}}
* Subverted by [[Oscar Wilde]] in ''The Canterville Ghost''. "Americans have everything in common with us now-a-days except the Language."
=== Live-Action TV ===
* An episode of ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' features an American who's more eager than intelligent when it comes to learning the ways of the samurai.
* ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' used this trope more than once, most memorably in song form, when [[Hugh Laurie]], wearing a plaid flannel shirt and a headband (he was making fun of [[Bruce Springsteen]], obviously overlooking the fact that the song "Born in the USA" is actually condescending of America), sang a song that consisted only of the words "...America, America, America..." and "...the States, the States, the States..." and ended with [[Stephen Fry]] punching him in the stomach.
=== Music ===
* "American Woman," originally by The Guess Who, painted the U.S. as Flavor 2. Then Lenny Kravitz [[Covered Up|covered it up]] with a funk remix and a music video with American flags, hot girls on choppers and muscle cars, and [[Heather Graham]] dancing on top of a bus. Because of that, it's today regarded as more Flavor 1 in style regardless of its lyrics. Incidentally, The Guess Who claimed ''American Woman'' was never intended to be anti-American in the first place.
** Considering the man who wrote the song later took American citizenship, [[This Troper]] is inclined to believe them.
* The song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1VTcJfL7RE Hollywood]" by Marina and the Diamonds provides a subversion. The visuals and constant reference to the American Dream are in the patriotic, freedom-searching-immigrants, dream-granting ideal of America—but the message is negative, causing a sort of [[Stepford Smiler]] result.
* [[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s song "Magic America", which is about a man who moves to America entirely because of this view of the country.
=== Radio ===
* On June 5, 1973,<ref>(as the U.S. was pulling out of [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] while facing economic hardship and intense internal and external criticism)</ref> Canadian commentator Gordon Sinclair did a piece on his daily radio series ''Let's Be Personal'' titled "[http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans.htm The Americans]," in which Gordon emphasized how much the U.S. has done to aid other countries (with a little [[Cultural Posturing]] on America's behalf included). To say the least, it was a significant [http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans_story.htm shot in the arm for American self-esteem]. After [[The War on Terror]] sparked a huge surge in people who view Americans through a Flavor 2 lens, the broadcast again made the rounds, this time on the Internet.
=== Video Games ===
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** Jennifer, in the Japanese version, routinely blurts out incredibly stereotypical American things: "Jesus!", "Oh my gaw!", and "OH!", for starters.
** Turn the [[Greek Chorus]] on in the DS port, and when Gordon tells Carter to have a parade ready for his triumphant return, and the Prinny says "This is a typical American victory speech. And let's not forget the 'smart American' joke, either."
* Subverted in ''[[EVE Online]]:'' the Gallente Federation is clearly modeled on the United States (more type 1). Everyone drinks their soft drinks and watches their entertainment, they bang on about freedom all the time, and their government has a Senate, President, and Supreme Court. The subversion? They're actually ''French''.
* ''[[Street Fighter II]]'' introduced Guile. Guile is a tattooed, buff military man, but he's a decent guy and is considered one of the good guys, even becoming the main character in some Western adaptations.
* ''[[Persona 2]]'' has Mr. Tominaga, a chiropractor who is obsessed with American culture. He has patches such as NASA and FBI on his jacket, wears a red and white striped shirt and a blue with white stars tie, has an American flag in his office, and is convinced that his [[Goldfinger|Goldfingeeeeers]] can cure anything. Interestingly enough, he's Japanese but studied chiropractic in America. Amusingly, wearing a FBI patch, depending on context, could be a full on federal crime in the United States. Pretending to be a law enforcement officer is serious business.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic's]] personality is said to be derived from free roaming western heroes who go where the wind takes them, a type 1 style America. Imagine the typical "free spirit" cowboy (in contrast to the "law man" cowboy) and you have Sonic in a nut shell.
=== Web Comics ===
* The U.S. military brings you [https://web.archive.org/web/20101223031031/http://www.usfj.mil/Manga/ Our Alliance - A Lasting Partnership]. Starring Usa-kun, an [[Adorably Precocious Child]], who's guarding the older japanese stand-in, just ''cuz''.
** May be a subversion, in that it's made by the U.S. Military for Japanese children...
=== Western Animation ===
* The Big Guy from ''[[Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (animation)|Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot]]'' is a solid Type 1. Lines like "have to shoot carefully...each shot costs millions of taxpayer dollars" and "I pledge allegiance to only one flag!" are said with perfect sincerity. It's probably a deliberately-crafted image; Lieutenant Hunter is a soldier, and a loyal one at that, but he's not ''that'' cheesy.
=== Other ===
* The Dydo company brings you [http://www.examiner.com/caffeine-in-national/how-japan-sees-american-coffee American Coffee].
{{quote|''That is why this amazingly detailed can of "American Coffee" is so attractive - all the cliche glamor of an All American Can, filled with everything the iconic sleazy american lives for! Bad taste? check. Sexy stripper grls? Check! Cool classic car? Check! There is even the american flag with groovy 60's lettering!''}}
* This [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/04/independence-day-2011-google-logo-4th-of-july_n_889636.html Google.com logo] for the 4th of July, 2011 is filled with all sorts of American patriotic marks, including a bald eagle and a surburban house
== Flavor 2 ==
=== Anime
* In one of the earlier books in the manga version of ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', Keiichi races against two students from a California technical institute. They are shown as hypercompetitive, cheating
* ''[[School Shock]]'' presents the Americans as aggressive diplomats with their default tactic being war threats,
* Carrie from ''[[Bamboo Blade]]'' is depicted as a somewhat stereotypical American type 2. She is obnoxious and in-your-face, extremely arrogant, and generally disregards the traditional rules of Kendo in favor of practices she thinks are more cool. However, by the end of the anime series, she and her rival Miya-Miya do seem to have a grudging respect for one another.
* The third episode of the 1990s OVAs of ''[[Black Jack]]'' features the "Federal Unites," complete with shots of the Statue of Liberty. ''This'' Eagle Land is a corrupt, imperialist bully bent on controlling and oppressing weaker nations for the sake of their resources. This makes it ''very'' satisfying when Dr. Black Jack beats the crap out of the Vice President for {{spoiler|murdering his patient.}} Black Jack is generally a very anti-establishment work anyway, so it's likely that this was just more of the "anyone with power is a corrupt dick" mindset than an anti-American one.
* ''[[Blood
** In the Japanese version, they outright left the French Van Aragano to die because he wasn't American
* Flavor 2 shows up in ''[[Darker than Black]]'' a couple of times. In the first season, the guy overseeing the American embassy is a stuck-up idiot who [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|deliberately gets in the way]] of [[Hero Antagonist|Misaki Kirihara's]] attempts to prevent a terrorist attack by [[The Syndicate]], and won't even let the Japanese police in to help security when "someone" drops a smoke bomb outside as an obvious distraction, which leads to [[Tempting Fate|the immortal line]]: "Don't test my patience-" *
** It's too mind-screwy to really tell, but the ending of the second season seems to cement America as this version: {{spoiler|it essentially implies they successfully invade
* An episode of ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' was set in Flavor 2 Eagleland, with a humongous New York that seemed to be nothing but Mafiosi and slums. Obviously [[Played for Laughs]], though; Excel immediately recognizes that she is in America by landing "...in the very definition of a slum."
** She tries to interact with the locals on their own level, hilariously badly. In the dub, she just spits out as many stereotyped gang-slang phrases she can think of; the trivia tags feature notes that in the original version, it was an even more eclectic collection of vaguely offensive faux- (and not-so-faux) Americanisms.
* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', Leonard Apollo, the coach of the Nasa Aliens, is definitely an example of the latter type. His players are pretty nice guys, but Apollo is an overbearing blowhard who's bitter about his own failed dream of becoming a pro football player. This is actually a step down from the manga, as there Apollo is actually ''blatantly racist''.
** {{spoiler|He got better. He has [[Defrosting Ice Queen|softened up to Panther,]] the one he had despised so much, but also the one who admires him for his [[Determinator|hardships and determination]], to the point that he is willing to teach his trade in return for becoming a running back. [[Took a Level in Badass|It improves him so much.]]}}
** Ironically enough, Hiruma actually exhibits the most type 2 qualities, despite being ethnically Japanese and having lived in Japan his entire life. He list of type 2 qualities include:
** Loudness, lack of personal space, rudeness, crudeness, violence, sadism, trigger happy, militant leadership, boisterousness, use of intimidation, a "might-equals-right" (bully) mindset, ruthless ambition, fluency in English, cheerful
* Episodes 10 and 11 of ''[[Genshiken]]'' Season 2. Angela is shown as riding roughshod over all cultural sensitivities in Japan, in an almost painful caricature.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' contains a particularly obnoxious example of type 2 in the infamous episode 10; a major plot point revolves around the "American Empire" sanctioning their forces to commit atrocious war crimes in South America, which might have been marginally forgivable given the series' alternate-future setting (in which [[All There in the Manual|supplemental materials]] reveal that America has undergone a second Civil War), but the depiction of the Japanese-American characters as ugly, condescending, manipulative cowards really has no excuse. Needless to say, some American fans like to [[Fanon Discontinuity|ignore that episode]].
** It is worth noting that the "American Empire" is NOT the United States, but one of two break-away nations from the US, with
* The ''[[You're Under Arrest]]: No Mercy'' special had the two [[Lovely Angels]] of the show
* Early '90s show ''[[Mad Bull 34]]'' sends a Japanese policeman on exchange to New York's 34th precinct to be [[Buddy Cop Show|buddies]] with "Sleepy" John Estes, the most violent cop on the force, who cleans up the [[Big Applesauce|Big Apple]]'s crime problem with shotguns, grenades, and a wanton disregard for legal procedure.
* ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'' features possibly the pinnacle of type II Eagleland, ironically during a [[Hot Springs Episode|trip to a traditional Japanese Hot Spring]]. As well as ticking all the [[Phenotype Stereotype]] boxes (blond hair, blue eyes, large nose), and having a [[Surprisingly Good English|surprisingly plausible accent]] (until [[Gratuitous English|he has to speak English]]...), he {{spoiler|whistles the "Star-Spangled Banner" to himself, hates Japanese culture, but pretends to love it just to get close to a woman, threatens to [[Frivolous Lawsuit|sue for the slightest slight]], keeps a massive revolver [[Freud Was Right|in his pants]], kills a woman for refusing to give him "her resources" (her love), thinks that losing his pride is reasonable grounds for self-defense, and is obsessed with working out to the point of walking around shirtless, dressed like someone from an L.A. street gang. Oh, and he calls America "a law enforcing [[The Empire|Empire]]" which "raised [him] to have an emotionless heart".}} The kicker is that the episode ends as [[An Aesop]] about how people shouldn't be so narrow minded and intolerant of other people's culture.
**In a later chapter, that arc's {{spoiler|first}} villain reveals that he used the poor man as the first {{spoiler|test subject for [[The Virus|the electronic drug]], which exaggerates something people like in order to warp them into killers,}} making this an [[Exploited Trope]]: he most likely picked the American instead of his other {{spoiler|graduate students}} because he thought people would fall for it, and he was right. This turns that story's moral about xenophobia into a [[Space Whale Aesop]]: don't miss important clues because of xenophobic assumptions about Americans or {{spoiler|a [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|computer]] might take over the world.}}▼
* The ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' anime has several characters who incarnated diverse variations of Eagleland #2. The one who shows up
▲In a later chapter that arc's {{spoiler|first}} villain reveals that he used the poor man as the first {{spoiler|test subject for [[The Virus|the electronic drug]], which exaggerates something people like in order to warp them into killers}} making this an [[Exploited Trope]]: he most likely picked the American instead of his other {{spoiler|graduate students}} because he thought people would fall for it, and he was right. This turns that story's moral about xenophobia into a [[Space Whale Aesop]]: don't miss important clues because of xenophobic assumptions about Americans or {{spoiler|a [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|computer]] might take over the world.}}
* The German/Japanese Asuka Langley Soryuu of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has American citizenship and lived there for a time, possibly just to hint at her loud showboating personality. On the other hand, at the time the anime begins, she's [[Improbable Age|thirteen]], and [[Teen Genius|she has already graduated from college "last year"]]—which does at least run counter to the Americans-are-idiots cliche. Of course, the only person who ever mentions that Asuka is a college graduate is Asuka herself
▲* The ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' anime has several characters who incarnated diverse variations of Eagleland #2. The one who shows up more often is Michael Grant, who started learning Japanese after watching several Japanese movies, acts like an overactive [[Genki Girl|Genki Boy]] and is quite fixated on his host sister, Miki. Also, we have Yuu's American friends and schoolmates: a [[Hot-Blooded]] semi [[Jerk Jock]] (Brian), a blonde [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] (Jenny), a sweet and homely [[Cool Big Sis]] (Doris) and young man who pretends to be sexually ambiguous to a degree (Bill).
** She also knows phsyics as second-nature, being able to answer all Shinji's homework without even being able to read it, and also speaks at least two languages fluently (it can be assumed she also knows English from living in the States). I think her word is pretty good.▼
▲* The German/Japanese Asuka Langley Soryuu of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has American citizenship and lived there for a time, possibly just to hint at her loud showboating personality. On the other hand, at the time the anime begins, she's [[Improbable Age|thirteen]], and [[Teen Genius|she has already graduated from college "last year"]]—which does at least run counter to the Americans-are-idiots cliche. Of course, the only person who ever mentions that Asuka is a college graduate is Asuka herself, and given her personality, that might be best to take with a grain of salt...
* In the
▲** She also knows phsyics second-nature, being able to answer all Shinji's homework without even being able to read it, and also speaks at least two languages fluently (it can be assumed she also knows English from living in the States). I think her word is pretty good.
* Team Rocket's Meowth from the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime comes from California, and grew up in Hollywood. He went there as a lonely kitten to find happiness, but it was rough there
▲* In the Anime ''Ping Pong Club'' the tall, hairy, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, extremely ''smelly'' Mitchell Tanabe is..you guessed it. American.
** Also applied to James's background. as his parents are overbearing and insensitive [[Gone with the Wind]]-style billionaires. Again, not a [[Woolseyism]].▼
▲* Team Rocket's Meowth from the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime comes from California, and grew up in Hollywood. He went there as a lonely kitten to find happiness but it was rough there too and he was mistreated by almost everyone from a baseball team to a chef. Meowth had to join a gang and steal food to survive. This is not a [[Woolseyism]] and is true even in the original Japanese version. The rich lady's Meowth, Meowzie, who Meowth fell in love with, is humorously named [[Maddo NYA]] in that version.
** While Lt. Surge is a Type 1 in the games, in the anime he is the stereotypical "American bully," taunting children and having his bigger Pokémon beat up on them while he calls them "babies". In the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga he is even worse: a power-hungry [[Psycho for Hire]] that climbed to the top ranks of [[The Mafia|Team Rocket]] and got his jollies beating the crap out of a teenage boy with a lightning [[BFG]] and an enslaved minor [[Physical God]].▼
▲** Also applied to James's background as his parents are overbearing and insensitive [[Gone with the Wind]]-style billionaires. Again not a [[Woolseyism]].
▲** In the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga he is even worse: a power-hungry [[Psycho for Hire]] that climbed to the top ranks of [[The Mafia|Team Rocket]] and got his jollies beating the crap out of a teenage boy with a lightning [[BFG]] and an enslaved minor [[Physical God]].
* Donald Curtis from ''[[Porco Rosso]]'' is an exceptional #2 example. "Make way for the American!" He plans to be a Hollywood actor and later president. [[Ronald Reagan|Sound familiar?]]
* ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'' has a brief sequence at the White House, where it shows the President as some gullible idiot willing to dump 60 billion dollars into a satellite surveillance system created by a 12 year
{{quote|"Ohhhhhhhh, I'm the president."}}
* Principal Kuno from ''[[Ranma ½]]'', a truly bizarre character with a penchant for loud shirts
* The American team in the baseball episode of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' is a definite type 2. They are portrayed as blatantly cheating, violent, murderous thugs who consider the Japanese team to be ignorant savages. They also keep going on and on about American superiority. When the game dissolves into a beaning match which ends with Mugen as the last man standing, he then yells "Go back to your own damn country!" The narrator then helpfully adds that the Americans went home in shame, with a profound fear of the Japanese people.
* ''Shin [[Getter Robo]] Armageddon'': After the apocalypse, the remaining nations struggle to survive against immortal aliens. A group of Americans come onto the Japanese base and start trying to kill everyone and destroy Shin Getter. Their reason? They think the Japanese ''caused'' the disaster that flooded the surface with Getter radiation, killing about 90% of the population, and drove them underground {{spoiler|in truth, the UN over-reacted and launched a nuke at the, at the time, highly volatile Shin Dragon}}. Gai calls them out on this, asking why the Japanese would drop the bomb on themselves.
** They have a [[Heel Face Turn]] of sorts near the end of the OVA
** In the original ''Getter Robo'' series and the ''Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo'' OAV, we get the Texas Mack robot unit shaped as a cowboy and its horse, piloted by the siblings Jack and Mary King. The depictions of Jack King vary as well; in the original ''Getter Robo'', he was so Flavor 2 that even the Japanese found it a bit ridiculous and offensive. In ''Shin Vs. Neo'', however, he at first appears to be Flavor 2 (a bit of a jerk, refusing to use Japanese, speaking bluntly, etc.) but quickly shows that [[Determinator|he's willing to defend his country and his allies, even at great personal risk, without so much as a half-moment of hesitation]].
*** Latter does so speaking absolutely horrid and, at the same time, absolutely ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious]]'' Engrish.
*** The Americans in ''Getter Robo Go'' are not the nicest people. They are grateful for Getter's help but won't share parts due Japan's past history of not assisting allies, specifically when Japan needed oil during the Gulf War and not helping. American pilot Schwartz takes the cake and is a total racist that hates everything non-white. He does start to realize he was wrong and his co-pilot was always stopping from picking on the Japanese.
* Let's not forget "Bandit" Keith [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Steve]] Howard from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', both an American and a ruthless dirty cheater, who has a [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head|Stars and Stripes bandanna]]. He even pulls a gun on Pegasus when he loses! Of course, Pegasus himself is American... and a flamboyant, childlike billionaire. Or Rebecca Hopkins/Hawkins, American champion, a cute little girl with a teddy bear... whose [[Catch Phrase]] is "God damn". Rebecca gets a little better later on, but still. Not to mention the [[It's All About Me|shallow, selfish]] movie star Jean-Claude Magnum. [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|In America]].
** In [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|the Abridged Series]], Yugi states it himself: "So let me get this straight. The only characters on this show who represent America are Jean Claude Magnum, Rebecca Hawkins, Maximilian Pegasus, and Bandit Keith. Is it just me, or is Yu-Gi-Oh the most xenophobic show ever?"
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* The manga version of ''[[Bokurano]]'' portrays America this way, even though Americans themselves are very rarely shown. Characters usually speak with disgust about the United States, saying that the country is stuck thinking it's the world's sole superpower, and worrying that the U.S. may invade Japan, using the manga's events as a pretext. In fact, the U.S. never actually does anything antagonistic in the manga.
* While America doesn't make an appearance until one of the final episodes of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'', the portrayal is definitely this type. The American President (very clearly [[George W. Bush]] in the dub) is among the world leaders discussing dealing with the situation in Japan, and they launch missiles into the middle of Tokyo as a response, and their motives for doing this are completely corrupt. Admittedly, the series also presents all Japanese politicians (and arguably all politicians in general) as corrupt.
* ''Heroman'', while definitely a poster child for Type 1 at first glance, seems to be headed this way as of recent episodes, with {{spoiler|the government actively trying to capture Heroman, as he poses a threat to the country.}}
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': When Osaka learns Chiyo plans to study abroad, she seems to think Chiyo will get shot the minute she steps off the plane.
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* Garth Ennis' ''[[Punisher]]'' run portrayed America as a glass half empty type 2, to the point where the military are launching terrorist attacks to justify war.
* Nuke, a [[Marvel Comics]] villain, is a deranged super soldier with an American flag tattooed on his face.
=== Film ===
* ''[[wikipedia:Iron Sky|Iron Sky]]'': the American President is a Sarah Palin parody. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180703043654/http://ironsky.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Sky_Wiki
* ''The Best of the Best'', where the American Tae Kwon Do team goes to Korea to take on their national team at the sport they invented, is a Flavor 2 film, even though it's certainly the opposite of what the filmmakers intended. Although supposed to have an "Americans triumph over any adversity" message, consider the following:
** The American team includes a prejudiced, ignorant [[Deep South|redneck stereotype]] who continually insults their hosts' culture. In addition, they have their star Korean-American member as a symbol of assimilation into the greater American culture.
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* Seen in ''[[In Bruges]]'' with the overweight American tourists, and then lampshaded when Ray picks a fight with one couple over [[The Vietnam War]] and the assassination of [[John Lennon]]. He feels no remorse until [[Mistaken Nationality|he learns]] that they're [[Canada, Eh?|Canadian]].
* In the German film ''Kein Bund F?rs Leben'' the Americans (especially the commander) are mostly type 2 but with a subversion: The German soldiers are worse!
* The American president in ''[[Love Actually]]'' fits neatly into the second category, a combination of Bill Clinton (a sleazy womanizer) and George W. Bush (bullying behavior and accent). When England's prime minister (played by Hugh Grant, of course) tells him off, it is portrayed as his defining moment as a leader. It should be noted that the President here is played by Billy Bob Thornton, of ''Sling Blade'' and Angelina Jolie-marrying fame.
* All of [[Lars
=== Literature ===
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* Ditto for Ian Fleming's [[James Bond]] novels involving Americans (''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]'', ''[[Goldfinger]]'' and ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]''): No sentence is complete without at least one "buster", "buddy" or "...see?"
* In ''Partners In Crime'' [[Agatha Christie]] depicts an abrasive American who calls Europe "Yurrop" (actually this pretty much is how Americans pronouce it). He's the bad guy.
* Let's just say most of the writers from the Latin-American [[Magic Realism]] movement had a [[Mister Danger|bad image]] of the USA and leave it at that. [[Gabriel García Márquez|García Marquez]]'s ''[[Autumm Of The Patriarch]]'' where americans appear as manipulative diplomats who literally [[Magic Realism|steal the sea]] at a moment of economic trouble in the country of the dictator.
* ''The Ugly American'' is about American foreign aid workers struggling to win hearts and minds for the USA while being sabotaged by a variety of flavor 2s.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* The "special relationship" between the US and UK is not universally approved-of, something which comes through in depictions of the US government (although generally not its people) modern UK shows. Take the penultimate episode of Series 3 of the
** In the same episode there is an example that is closer to the first stereotype. A trio of Buffalo Bills supporting teens watch the President Elect getting zapped live on TV, as they don't speak they are portrayed in Letterman Jackets/a Cheerleader outfit, eating fried chicken ''and'' pizza. The fried chicken tub has a star spangled banner on it, this probably meant to simply show that they are American to UK viewers. What, no cowboy hats nor six-shooters?
** Notably, the episode is presenting the President as a big prat who we want to see shot... while he's ''right'' that PM Saxon is a boob who's mismanaging the situation and not following protocol, and the President puts UNIT, a ''United Nations group'', in charge of the operation. Which is a wee bit of a disconnect.
** The first new series had the first Dalek captured by an American laboratory, populated by rich bastard Van Statten, Simmons, whose job largely consisted of torturing the Dalek, and an idiot security guard who didn't listen to the Doctor's advice. But the American ''women'' in that environment seem particularly strong and non-stereotypical, such as Van Statten's right-hand woman who eventually {{spoiler|has him mind-wiped and put in some city beginning with "S"}} and the brave young female trooper who faces down the Dalek on the stairs long enough to buy Rose and Adam enough time to escape. As depictions of Americans in [[Doctor Who]] goes, it's actually one of the better ones.
** During the first Christmas special of the
*** [[Hypocrite|She then winds up ordering Torchwood to shoot down the retreating enemy ship]].
** It's subverted a bit with the "Children of Earth" special for ''Torchwood''. The American general who shows up makes many (deserving) accusations against the British (in the context of this universe anyways) during his visit. There's even a bit of a nod towards the tendency towards Type 2 Eagle Land when at the end, the Prime Minister intends to save his career by blaming it all on America.
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* ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' does this occasionally, notably in "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6riY-103vbc Kicking Ass]" and "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUKOebCbINc From Here To Just Over There]".
* [[Kenny Everett]] had the bombastic [[General Ripper]] character of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYZrVc1kCY General Cheeseburger] (the post-[[Watershed]] version was called General Bombthebastards), whose solution to every problem involved rounding up those responsible in a field and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|bombing the bastards]]. Also his shoulderpads served as launch pads for ICBMs.
* In ''[[Spooks]]'' the ''Special Relationship'' between the UK and US leads to facepalm inducing situations that at the very least would be cause for armed conflict if it were occurring in a country which doesn't rollover like a dog on command. The behaviour of almost every American character, barring one, makes it seem that the US has continued the American Revolution into a Cold War.
** This dialog sums up many seasons of ''Spooks'':
{{quote|US Government: 'Sup UK, can we just kidnaps this random citizen in Wales without proof of any terrorist connections?
UK Government: Sure, you can even kill a civilian or two and we'll just pin it on a left-wing lobby group for the Opposition.
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* [[Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson]]: A tongue-in-cheek emo rock take on the life of [[Andrew Jackson]]. Everyone is obnoxious and jingoistic, and the events of the show are fairly accurate.
{{quote|Washington crossed the Delaware River, Washington acted like a Rock Star!}}
=== Video Games ===
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* Though you only see him for a minute in ''[[GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)|Golden Eye Wii]]'', Sky Briggs is an unabashed Flavor 2 Eaglelander—he greets you with a friendly drawl, walks with a swaggering mosey, and confidently boasts that his "boys" are ready to face any threat with their [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|superior firepower]].
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]] Cataclysm'', the new Goblin race are basically this, in spite of not even coming from America. A group of greedy industrialists with a 'money makes right' attitude, they exhibit shocking ignorance about the rest of the world, a mercantile ruthlessness that would be shocking if it weren't [[Played for Laughs]], the kind of taste in clothes that you'd expect from Paris Hilton, and an absolute belief that if you weren't born a goblin, you're not as good as they are. They're basically every negative stereotype of America, from trailer trash to Hollywood excess to robber barons, all rolled into one.
* ''[[Ben There, Dan That!]]'' features an alternate reality where the UK has been annexed as the 51st American state. Pretty much everything here is some form or other of gentle (or not-so-gentle) [[Take That]] to America. There's the portly guy sitting around in a miniscule castle calling himself the king, there's the shut-down fish and chip shop, and just listen to what they think of our beer when they visit the "authentic English pub" (the soulless American pisswater is the only thing the barman will serve. He's such a collossal pussy that he'll demand more ID than any rational person would carry before he'll serve the robust, flavorful, and actually-counts-as-alcoholic British lager).
** Wow, who knew "robust" was a synonym for "algae"?
=== Web Comics ===
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': [[The Government]] isn't that bad. Even [[The Men in Black]]. But ''[http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-05-26 tourists]''...
** Of course, the writer's [[Word of God|commentary on the strip]] seems to imply that it was more of a jab at tourists in general than just American ones.
* ''[[
* [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/4637.html This] instalment of ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]''
{{quote|'''Steve''': How can I be arrested simply for telling the truth?!
'''Airport Security Officer''': Sir, this is the United States of America—
'''Jane''': Yep, that’d do it.}}
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{{quote|Narrating: Meanwhile, in the peace loving America (then shows Linkara randomly shooting in the air)}}
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] has made a [[Running Gag]] out of being hypocritical about this, yelling at directors like [[Michael Bay]] for glorification of the US army, but then being relieved that France was to blame for the destruction in ''[[Godzilla]]''.
=== Western Animation ===
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{{quote|(original) '''Darla''': Mister Pussycat, listen to me; you don't have to be good, but you had better be...Big and Loud!...
(German) '''Darla''': Let me tell you my philosophy: you don't have to be good, just better than them! }}
* The Americans in the original series of ''[[Captain Scarlet]]'' have a tendency to be of the former variety- strapping men, near-glowing skin etc. They're also more likely to get the cliche lines (something that also held true in the newer series).
* ''[[Flushed Away]]'' features a stereotypical American tourist (a [[Everything Is Big in Texas|Texan]], to be exact) who teases the Royal Guards and complains how "these Brits don't know the first thing about football" while watching [[The World Cup]].
* A ''[[Pucca]]'' episode has an obnoxious rich American couple visiting Sooga to open a fast food restaurant. The food is addictive and highly fattening, causing everyone who eats it to become really fat and out of shape. The wife is also a materialistic shopaholic who goes on a rampage of branding things she wants to buy with a freaking branding iron! Including flammable things!
** They become recurring villains, and manage to be ''worse'' examples of Type 2 in their other appearance, polluting the village for no better reason than sheer disregard for its inhabitants and the environment.
** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Ironically]] the show is voiced by ''Canadian'' VO so it's a kind of a [[Take That]] by a country frustrated with being mistaken for America.
=== Other ===
* On the opposite end of [[Moe Anthropomorphism]] depictions from Japan, there's Meriken from ''[[Afganisu-tan]]'' web series. Unlike Alfred (America) from APH, Meriken is [[Anvilicious|very much Eagleland #2]]. She's first shown on the White House lawn, [[It's All About Me|singing that the whole world was made just for her]]. The 9/11 attacks, where over 3,000 people were killed, are shown as a stray cat (representing Osama bin-Laden) biting Meriken. She goes marauding and rampaging over a helpless, terrified Afganis-tan in response, destroying her home while trying to catch the mischevious cat. Then gives Afghanis-tan a stern warning to take more responsibility for her house so this doesn't happen again.
* John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman's podcast ''The Bugle'' has "the American" (played by Rory Albanese, whom Oliver works with on ''[[The Daily Show]]''), whose entire character is Flavor 2 of this trope. For instance, when told that the American dollar is neither the strongest currency in the world nor accepted in other countries: "I don't believe you."
* Type 2 is parodied in an article of ''The Onion'' [http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-china-to-overtake-us-as-worlds-biggest-assh,17277/ "China To Overtake US As World's Biggest Asshole by 2020"] suggesting that China's growing economic and military strength will make it the future equivalent to Type 2 America.
* [[Visual Novel]] ''Phantom of Inferno'' actually Lampshades this a bit during the Japanese chapter of the game, where a young girl finds out that the two American exchange students in her class are really gun-toting assassins on the run. Later on when she witnesses another pair pulling weapons on each other over a disagreement she wonders aloud if ALL Americans are like this. Somewhat subverted in that Zwei is a native Japanese who had only spent a few years in America at most and Ein is from somewhere in central Asia. The assassin Drei (One of the pair mentioned) is the best example of the trope, a blond, [[Foreign Fanservice|big-breasted]] [[Psycho for Hire]] who engages on several long, obnoxious rants about how corrupt and pathetic the Japanese are. She's contrasted with more sympathetic examples however, and given [[Freudian Excuse|reasons for her]] unpleasant personality.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131221122059/http://globalfire.tv/nj/graphs/aussauger.jpg This cartoon] comes courtesy of the May 2005 issue of "metall," a German magazine by IG Metall (Germany's largest trade union) with two million issues circulated monthly. The featured article for that issue [
* There is a hilarious chapter in David Sedaris's book ''Me Talk Pretty One Day'' where Sedaris describes something that happened to him on the subway in Paris. He was standing near an American couple who played Flavor 2 straight as an arrow. They mistook Sedaris, an American, as a Frenchman and, not realizing that he is fluent in English, kept on referring to him as a "frog" who would likely try to pickpocket them if he had the chance. They were not aware of metro etiquette and were taking up way too much space, guarding the support bar they were using (intended for use by many people at once) as if it was their personal property. Sedaris described their dress as something like denim shorts tee-shirts and remarked (paraphrasing from memory), "That's great -- show up in a foreign country dressed like you're ready to mow their lawn."
* Latin America, or at least some parts of it, is actually the place where the USA is disliked—if not hated—the most, due mainly to its alleged involvement (which is by now [[Popcultural Osmosis]] whether it's true or not and [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|let's not argue about that]]) during the Cold War in political movements against leftist popular governments. Specially the Cuban Revolution and the Presidential Crisis with Salvador Allende in Chile, which a lot of intelectuals blame the CIA for manipulating everything. Most books based on this events will portray Americans as hypocrites claiming words of peace while murdering hundreds and stealing the country's resources, and it's important to remember Fidel Castro and El Che are admired or idolized on a lot of parts of the continent, so the USA fear of communism and specially the Monroe Doctrine are not seen as good things. This is far from universal, tough, but it still is staggering for several Americans how hated they are in countries such as Chile and Guatemala and certain parts of others like Brazil or Mexico.
** Ironically,
* On May 5, 1986, ''The New Republic'' called the phrase "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative" [https://newrepublic.com/article/127231/worthwhile-canadian-initiative "possibly the most boring headline ever written"]. Way to recognize the benefits of your largest trading partner of the time, guys.
== Mixed Examples ==
=== Anime
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism|America]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' is a more benign [[Boisterous Bruiser|blend of both flavors]]; his geography is terrible, he's loud, pushy, [[The Ditz|clueless]], addicted to cheeseburgers and various sweets, and he's an [[Attention Whore]] (he calls himself the "World's Hero") -- but he's also friendly and good natured, to the point of being a literal [[Friend to All Living Things]] and a serious [[Love Freak]]. Considering some of the other "America-tan" characters to come out of Japan (e.g. Meriken), ''Axis Powers Hetalia'''s take on America is actually pretty positive.
** This type of depiction is pretty much normal for this series. No country escapes being the butt of jokes, but most of the countries are also good at heart. (Except for Russia whose heart sometimes actually falls out of its place. But even he [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|isn't completely and consciously evil]].)
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* Jackie Gudelhian from ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]''. He's a very cheerful guy, doesn't take things seriously, he often wears a cowboy hat when he's off the race track and his hobby is horse riding. Also, his car in the TV series has stars on them and he wears the [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head|Stars and Stripes trunks]] in EP 5 of ''Double-One''.
* ''[[Japan Inc]]'', which is about economics.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Freezing]]'', we are introduced to "the Immortal" Roxanne Elipton, ranked as the strongest 3rd year Pandora in America. She is shown to be supportive and respectful of others, yet still has an outgoing attitude. She also squishes Satellizer's massive boobs to see if they're real.
* [[Kinnikuman|Terryman]] started out briefly as a Type 2 example, being a Choujin who only did good deeds for money. As the focus shifted from superheroes to pro-wrestling, however, he quickly fell into Type 1. Most American Choujin, as well as America itself during Kinnikuman's American tour, do not fall into any specific flavor of Eagleland, however.
* ''[[Girls und Panzer]]'' runs the gamut of American stereotypes with the Saunders tank team, who are ethnically Japanese but culturally American. They have the budget to afford all the milirary toys including a Galaxy cargo aircraft (keep in mind they're a high school); the team captain is very open and friendly, and a firm believer in fair play; but one of her lieutenants is willing to take any advantage she can get no matter how underhanded.
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** [[The Ultimates|Ultimate Captain America]] is quite a bit less idealistic — he's a mixture of type 1 and type 2.
** One of the famous Ultimate Captain America quotes is (upon being asked to surrender) [http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kon66vqu3C1qzp5buo1_500.jpg "Surrender? Do you think this A on my forehead stands for France?"] For the record, that line was written by Mark Millar, a Scotsman. The fact that the [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|French as cowardly]] is a [[Newer Than They Think|fairly recent]] stereotype that [[Human Popsicle]] Cap wouldn't be aware of isn't addressed. (Mainstream Cap, probably written in response to the above, fondly remembers working with the French ''resistance'', proving that French ''citizens'' are brave and strong, but the French '''government''' basically rolled over and spread its legs.)
* The above quote is parodied in ''[[Nextwave]]'', where [[Action Girl|Elsa Bloodstone]], fighting a Captain America-imitation while wearing a European Union shirt, refuses to 'lay there and get used to being the victim'. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100926222202/http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/media/2855/20100308-Elsaincolor.png.jpg "Victim? Do you think this letter on my chest stands for America?"] (Type 2, obviously, but the entire book takes [[Refuge in Audacity]] and is [[Played for Laughs]].)
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* Amusingly, ''Persia'' as depicted in the ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' movie comes across as this, seemingly being an Expy/allegory for modern America; a monotheistic empire that's praised for its just and fair system of governance, but also seen as arrogant bullies by less powerful civilizations, with obnoxious taxes and a utter failure to find the Weapons of Mass Destruction.
* In ''[[The Triplets of Belleville|Les triplettes de Belleville]]'', Belleville closely resembles [[Big Applesauce|New York City]]. All of its citizens seen in the background are grotesquely obese. Even the Statue of Liberty is a fat woman holding a cheeseburger. On the other hand, they are portrayed as polite, happy, hard-working, and if they have the time to, helpful to anyone in need. Possibly [[Subverted Trope|subverted]], as Belleville may just be another city in France.
=== Literature ===
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* As shows ''An American'', [[Rudyard Kipling]] saw it as mixed, presenting flavours as best and worst sides of the same trait, which can be defined as "childishness". Specific American characters in his books may or may not exhibit it (e.g. Laughton O. Zigler in ''The Captive'' sees he had it coming and is quite calm about his misfortune).
** On the other hand, Kipling married an American woman and lived in the United States for a while. He probably saw both good and bad while he lived here.
* ''Empires of Trust'' describes and compares and likens early to late Republican and Imperial Roman to American psychology of Empire building through historic examples.
* The Bronze Age characters in S.M. Stirling's [[Island in The Sea of Time|Nantucket]] series refer to the time-displaced Americans as "The Eagle People." Type 1 is represented by the Republic, Type 2 by Walker's slave-based empire.
* [[Ephraim Kishon]] wrote on America, among other things, that Americans believe:
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** You can learn everything from [[For Dummies]] books, even "How to become president of the USA: In 10 easy steps".
** [[Otto von Bismarck|Bismarck]] is a herring, Frankfurt a sausage factory and [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] one of the greatest brandys in world history.
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** The US President in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Last of the Time Lords" is a subversion of Flavor 2; he acts like one and will say so himself, but at heart he was a Flavor 1, albeit misguided.
* [[Steven Moffat]] does seem to be trying to take a step back from Russel T. Davies' Flavor 2 stereotype into more of a hybrid Flavor 3 on ''Doctor Who,'' but on ''Sherlock,'' he didn't have quite so much luck. He decided to switch the New Jersey native Irene Adler to British, but since that gave us [http://deecrowseer.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sherlocks2lp01.jpg Lara Pulver as a badass dominatrix,] there weren't many complaints about that. However, this had the unfortunate side effect of making the only American characters in the series were the operatives (CIA I believe). The only one who had any substantial characterization screamed Flavor 2, threatening to kill Watson to make Sherlock open a safe and beating up Mrs. Hudson (whose age isn't given, but her actress is in her mid-70s) to make her reveal the location of a piece of evidence. No one really cried when he "fell" out the window (multiple times.)
=== Tabletop Games ===
* ''[[New Horizon]]'' has Xanadu, a mostly Flavor 1 stereotype that happens to be quite racist. Of course, this is a a faction on an alien colony in the future instead of America proper but...
* Andoran from the ''Pathfinder'' RPG.
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* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': the Engineer is Type 1, the Scout and Soldier are Type 2.
** Also, the aesthetic design of the game is, according to Valve, inspired by artists such as J. C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell and [[Norman Rockwell]], all designed to recall Type 1. The fact that everything (no seriously, [[Government Conspiracy|EVERYTHING]]) is either a desert, a [[Paper-Thin Disguise|badly-hidden spy base]], or both makes shift just a little towards Type 2.
=== Web Comics ===
* Brother/Sister America from ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]'' are mostly type 2 caricatures, but done in a good-natured enough way that it can be classified as a mix.
** Their type 1 tendencies are shown [http://satwcomic.com/a-trip-into-american-culture when the Scandanavians visit America,] although they're still kind of jerks.
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'''Routalempi:''' Yeah, that's so true.
'''Pöysti:''' Now, don't generalise, there are lots of smart people there too. (gets a flat stare from everybody) What?! }}
== Real Life ==
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* Speaking of the [[Cold War]]: many countries that fell under Allied/American occupation after [[World War II]] and throughout the [[Cold War]] are now some of the best places in the world. Two nations that had formerly been militaristic empires, (West) Germany and Japan, became some of the best places to live, with the third and fourth largest economies respectively. It's questionable how much America really had to do this, but it is interesting to compare them to Soviet backed or occupied countries such as North Korea, Cuba, and East Germany, as well as their earlier histories.
* A [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8143780.stm survey] found that Americans are a mixed bag in other countries, roughly akin to the "[[Boisterous Bruiser|split the difference]]" view mentioned in the introduction to this trope. Respondents found Americans to be loud and fussy—but they are also the ''most'' likely to try a new language, and are generous tippers. The worst tourists are apparently the French, who are seen as ''really'' rude and stingy; they only earned good marks in cleanliness and elegance.
* In a [http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/10/06/japan-least-proud-nation/ survey], the U.S. was only about the middle in being proud of your own country. The two countries made up nearly entirely of people who think their country rules? [[Australia (
* In some countries where America is not very well respected, it's not uncommon for American tourists to claim to be from Canada instead (possibly even adopting a pathetic imitation of a Canadian accent); including actually doing research and creating a fictional home in Canada.
** Or more commonly [[Did Not Do the Research|not doing the research]].
**
* While we're on the subject of tourism. During the 2010 soccer in South Africa, Americans were the largest single group of tourists, and as a result their overall image has improved significantly (both as tourists, and just in general). Not only for being (unexpectedly) relatively good at soccer, but also for being generally mild-mannered and well-behaved. But hey, guys, I think you should know that since you left, people have been expecting way better tips! You realize, this means war.
* Though it has partially been explored previously, it is worth mentioning to non-American readers just how tipping is viewed in American culture. To the average American citizen, the idea of NOT tipping one's server is nearly inconceivable. (So much so that, now, many restaurants will actually work the gratuity into the bill itself, although in most cases that's more because the popularity of credit cards means that people carry a lot less cash with them.) Withholding a tip, or "stiffing", your waiter/waitress is reserved only for the worst of the worst cases, and even a lackluster performance by the staff will still garner a moderate gratuity. As a result of this, American's perceive leaving a low tip or no tip at all generally rude or disrespectful. This has had a negative side effect, however, in that American wait-staff typically dread serving European tourists (who may not know that without a tip, said waiter/waitress is not properly compensated for their time and effort, regardless of quality of service) who are perceived as stingy.
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** Within America, tipping is a major bone of contention; the discussion that ensues in ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' when Mr. Pink reveals that he doesn't tip is pretty much spot on. ''Do not'' bring up tipping with your American friends unless you're prepared to go to the wire, because it is a discussion which has caused heroes to rise, empires to fall, and friendships to be tested.
* There has been a recent surge in popularity of British television in America, started by ''[[Doctor Who]],'' but carried on by ''[[Merlin]],'' ''[[Sherlock]],'' ''[[Downton Abbey]],'' ''[[Being Human (UK)|Being Human]],'' etc. The stars of the series frequently visit the States to give interviews and have actually attended a few premieres. When this happens, someone will often ask if there's a difference between US and UK audiences, and one answer that almost without fail pops up is that American audiences are much, much ''louder.'' While being loud during a movie would be seen as incredibly annoying, more than a few of them ([[Matt Smith]], for example) have said that they enjoy it in an odd way, since it gives them an instant feedback to see what works, what doesn't, what was funny, and what fell flat. Add another to the "split the difference" column.
* It should be noted that the United States is, by far, the largest donor of foreign aid to developing nations. However, this is only because the United States is really, really, rich. If you go by donations per capita rather than donations overall, than the United States is only number nineteen, with Sweden being number one. Then again, this does not take into account NGO or private donations, which like most G20 nations the US has quite a lot of.
* The National Rifle Association appears to be going out of its way to promote Flavor 2 in the late-2010s, promoting "second amendment rights" during a referendum in Ireland and after a mass shooting in New Zealand. (The second amendment to Ireland's constitution corrected some translation errors from English to Irish, and New Zealand is similar to the United Kingdom in having an uncodified constitution.)
* The good news is that the traditional image of Americans as drunk teens doing drunk teen things goes away. The bad news (for Americans and everyone else alike) is that by 2017 comparison of Washington DC with "[http://thesaker.is/sanctions-smoke-and-mirrors-from-a-kindergarten-on-lsd/ a kindergarten on LSD]" made more sense, and the new image is the animated gif of [[Gamergate/Memes|Trigglypuff]]<ref>or maybe "TrigglyProf", but not in her "Lobsta Girl" persona yet — for one, the infamous foul-mouthed furry NASA intern ''was'' removed</ref>, because that's what the loudest [[Vocal Minority]] looks and sounds like, consistently for the last decade or so.
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