Since this trope is about outsiders looking at the USA, you can expect most of the information here to be incredibly stereotyped and (potentially) culturally offensive to actual Americans. after they've first tried everything else." A famous saying, often misattributed to Winston Churchill, sums up this portrayal well: "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing. Other works just decide to split the difference, treating America as essentially the Boisterous Bruiser Idiot Hero of nations: rude, crude, clueless, obnoxious, and vaguely psychotic, but still good-natured beneath it all. The Bronze Age of Comic Books and especially The Dark Age of Comic Books frequently began to reflect this flavor, which once again is no "truer" than any other, and especially not when it comes to individual US citizens. And last but not least, they suck at global geography. ![]() And if you're a foreign nation, you'd better hope that your country doesn't have some sort of resource or export the Americans want or need, whether it be gold, oil, or anime because the minute that they sense any threat to their supply, they'll invade you (if you're lucky) or send money and arms to whoever they want in power (if you're not), almost always some godawful kleptocrat who is submissive to their interests. ![]() Woe betide you if you're a minority, immigrant (though why on Earth you'd ever want to move there is anyone's guess), or both at best you'll be assimilated into the culture and become one of the above, and at worst you'll be treated as utter vermin by the citizens, the law enforcement, the government itself, and even other immigrants/minorities. Whenever they talk, it will always be as obnoxiously loud and as offensive as possible, claiming it's "freedom of speech." In the rural areas of the Deep South and The Wild West, you'll find disgustingly obese, Red-baiting, Bible-thumping, gun-toting, heteronormative redneck Moral Guardians who subsist on a diet of synthetic fast food and TV dinners, while in the cities and everywhere else, you'll find crime-ridden ghettoes full of street gangs and cartels desperate to get you addicted to their wares, vapid rich bitches either hailing from or trying to emulate Hollywood California, and Darwinist, Scrooge-like corporate profiteers who view poor people as a plague upon humanity (not that the poor are any better). Americans come into your country either as tourists or invaders, always acting like they own the place and letting you know how it "should be" run. This flavor is, of course, no "truer" than any other, and especially not when it comes to individual US citizens.Ī Wretched Hive full of war-mongering, ignorant Jerkasses whose prosperity, when it exists, is the product of their infinite greed. Sometimes based on American media during The '50s and The Silver Age of Comic Books, which portrayed the United States of America as a homey, traditional world of heroes built upon (nuclear) family values, love, and old-fashioned simple mindsets. ![]() In short, this is the country that embodies The American Dream. Theirs is a shining city upon a hill guided by destiny: a land of freedom, justice, wealth, and luck, where people can leave their pasts behind and create entirely new lives for themselves, far from the stratified social structures and open ethno-religious bigotry and violence of the Old World. As with most stereotypes, there is a certain amount of Truth in Television in both of them.Ī peaceful paradise on earth full of friendly, wise, and good-hearted people whose prosperity is their (God-given) reward for their impeccable virtue. When viewed from the outside, the United States of America comes in different flavors. For added atmosphere, listen to this while reading.
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