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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"See? You can tell he's American from his [[Phenotype Stereotype|blond hair]] and cowboy hat!"
|'''[[Desu Des Brigade|JesuOtaku]]''' on a side character from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' who is from America }}▼
In foreign media, when you want your American, you've got your personality down
▲{{quote|"See? You can tell he's American from his [[Phenotype Stereotype|blond hair]] and cowboy hat!"<br />
▲'''[[Desu Des Brigade|JesuOtaku]]''' on a side character from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' who is from America }}
▲In foreign media, when you want your American, you've got your personality down pat--he could be the obnoxious tourist, the boisterous but well-meaning rogue, the patriotic man who can never do wrong, or any other spectrum in the [[Eagle Land|Eaglelander]] rainbow.
But that still leaves your design. Personality is one thing, but looks? Hmmmmm...
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See [[Eagle Land]] when talking about personality. See also [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head]]. When talking about hair/eye colors, see [[Phenotype Stereotype]]. See also [[Foreign Fanservice]], because tits demand seeing.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Done to a clearly parodic extreme in the ''Discipline'' anime, where the American girl is shown wearing a cowboy hat to clue us in she's American, though this borders on insulting given her art style is clearly different from all the Japanese characters (especially her really pale skin and very light blonde hair). Strangely, in the [[H-game]] of the same name, the same character lacks any of this (and amazingly, wardrobe aside, is much less of a slut).
* Saitama's grandfather in ''[[Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo]]'' was a Texan bounty-hunter who wears a cowboy hat and frilled buckskin vest.
* In ''[[Midori
* Melody Honey in ''[[Arcade Gamer Fubuki]]'' is...well. Uh. [http://img127.imageshack.us/i/melodyhoneyoldpic.jpg/ Ahem.]
* Jack King and the Texas Mack from ''[[Getter Robo]]''. Also his tribute in ''[[Gekiganger 3]]'', Cowboy Johnny and the Texas Robo.
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* Reina Gorn in ''[[Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service]]''.
* Terryman and Terry the Kid from ''[[Kinnikuman]]'' and ''[[Kinnikuman Nisei]]''. They're also from Texas, and specialize in appropriately-flavored moves, like the Calf Branding.
** Terryman himself is based on legendary professional wrestler (and Texan) [http://www.prowrestlingmidatlantic.com/terry_funk_op_471x6001.jpg Terry Funk]{{Dead link}}, who did actually dress in a cowboy hat and a poncho for years, making this a [[Justified Trope]] in his case.
** Averted with Specialman (a gridiron football player) and Pentagon (a masked luchadore, but one with eagle wings).
* A ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Wing]]'' fanart/animated gif featured the Gundam pilots holding hands and wearing "traditional" clothing. Duo is dressed as a cowboy. You can see it [http://www.blue-cicada.net/trivial/gifs/gndmboys.gif here]{{Dead link}}
** Chibodee Crocket from ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|G Gundam]]'' is not only a cowboy, but also a boxer/surfer/football player.
* Jackie Gudelhian from ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]''. He wears a cowboy hat, likes rodeo riding and he's from Kentucky. He is even nicknamed the "High-tech cowboy''.
* A character from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' who shows up only briefly via video link is a computer programmer and friend of the 'Monster Makers' who originally coded the Digimon is [[Phenotype Stereotype|blond]] and wears a stetson. The dub even adds a [[American Accents|Texan drawl]] to him.
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* ''[[Tintin]] in America'' had many Americans dressed as either Chicago mobsters or cowboys. Somewhat justified, as the cowboy era was not long dead.
* In ''[[Camelot 3000]]'', the American president dresses like a cowboy and packs a pair of six-shooters. - an obvious reference to [[Ronald Reagan]].
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20050210130019/http://images.oneofakindantiques.com/2464_szyk_caricatures_6.jpg one] of [[wikipedia:Arthur Szyk|Arthur Szyk]]'s Anti-Fascist propaganda posters, America is depicted as a Gary Cooper-ish cowboy about to be stabbed in the back by a [[Yellow Peril]] [[Imperial Japan]], distracting him with an olive branch as he does so.
== Film ==
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* ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery''. When Dr. Evil calls up the United Nations Secret Meeting Room to give his ultimatum, many of the occupants are dressed in costumes indicating their native countries (two Japanese are dressed as a geisha and a sumo wrestler, a British representative is wearing a Beefeater costume, a Spaniard is dressed as a matador, etc.). One of the characters (presumably an American) is dressed as a cowboy.
* One old [[Jackie Chan]] film featured him traveling to America and fighting a bunch of hairy, obese, slovenly cowboys who rolled around in the mud. Knowing how this trope usually connects with reality, it was probably supposed to be set in Chicago or uptown Manhattan.
* The [[Big Bad]] of the first ''[[Die Hard]]'' film mocks John McClane as being a "cowboy" several times
* In the movie adaption of ''[[The Golden Compass]],'' [[Token American|Lee Scoresby]] wears a cowboy hat to compliment his Texan drawl. Could possibly be a subversion, though, depending how you look at it... in the universe he lives in, Texas is a separate sovereign nation.
* The American characters in
== Literature ==
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* The first ''[[Doctor Who]]'' with a US setting was "The Gunfighters", which saw the First Doctor, Steven and Dodo mixing it up with Wyatt Earp and Johnny Ringo.
** During [[Matt Smith]]'s run, when the Doctor tells Craig he's going to America, the first thing Craig does is give the Doctor a cowboy hat. The hat appears in "The Impossible Astronaut" and "The Day of the Moon", which take place in America.
* Sky is under this impression in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. Justified in that she is [[Younger Than They Look|younger than she looks]] and has been watching ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''.
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* [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George W. Bush]] promoted a cowboy image. Neither one ever really worked with cattle, though the former [[But I Play One on TV|had acted in Westerns]] and latter had been governor of Texas. Even so, you can find plenty of photo ops where they wear cowboy hats and act like they are ranch guys (Bush does own an actual ranch, but it's mainly a vacation home).
** Reagan actually did own a ranch and was quite fond of horseback riding. His horse, El Alamein, was likely named after the WWII battle.
*** The fact that Reagan had grown up as a huge fan of Westerns before finally achieving his dream of buying a ranch during his adulthood, and actually worked the ranch, taking care of the horses, clearing brush, and chopping firewood, means that President Reagan could probably be considered an [[Ascended Fanboy]] of the Western genre. One aide actually noted that Reagan was at his happiest when he was doing things like clearing brush or tending to the horses at his ranch.
* Don't forget [[Lyndon B. Johnson|LBJ]] the first Texan in the White House.
* [[Theodore Roosevelt]] was a cowboy, among other things, in his [[Expansion Pack Past]].
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* The term ''[[wikipedia:Cowboy diplomacy|cowboy diplomacy]]'', sometimes used by critics of certain aspects of US foreign policy.
* A frequent complaint from American intellectual types about their European (and particularly French) opposite numbers is this bizarre identification of the cowboy as one of the most important things in the American psyche. One episode of ''[[This American Life]]'' includes a bit where a visitor to Germany goes into the phenomenon (and why it's stupid) in detail.
* The reason for this stereotype seems to be that, way back when, the majority of early American entertainment media that made to other countries had a Western theme. Westerns were hugely popular in the U.S. at the time, but they weren't exactly slice-of-life storytelling, something many non-Americans at the time could not have known
** This phenomenon predates motion pictures; Buffalo Bill's Wild West performances made [[wikipedia:Buffalo Bill#Buffalo Bill.E2.80.99s Wild West Tours Europe|many successful European tours]] and were perhaps many Europeans' first exposure to American media (and Americans in general).
* The only American character seen in the It's a Small World ride at the [[Disney Theme Parks]] (not counting a lone Eskimo) for some reason actually dresses up in stereotypical cowboy garb that is found only in the last part of the ride.
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