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* University of California student Azeem Ward made the mistake of making a Facebook event for his recital and not making it private. The result? [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/azeem-skepta-logan-sama Thousands of people all liking his event and spamming the event with memes]], most of them from Britain. Interest got so high that his performance is actually ''being livestreamed on Twitch'.

*** Gun ranges in Hawaii do a good deal of business from Japanese tourists. Gun ownership is extremely restricted in Japan[[labelnote:*]]bordering on ''completely illegal''; the few sparse exceptions are for antique (read: single-shot muzzle-loaders) and hunting firearms which are restricted to low-capacity bolt-action rifles ''at best''[[/labelnote]] so when in America, Japanese tourists take the opportunity to fire a gun, which is perfectly legal in the United States (though Hawaii is a bit more strict than some locations on the mainland).

*** Gun ranges in Hawaii do a good deal of business from Japanese tourists. Gun ownership is illegal in Japan so when in America, Japanese tourists take the opportunity to fire a gun, which is perfectly legal in the United States (though Hawaii is a bit more strict than some locations on the mainland).

* Supercenter chain Meijer is so popular in its native Michigan that towns and cities as large as Ann Arbor (which has a population of 113,000+) are ''completely'' devoid of Walmart.

* Supercenter chain Meijer is so popular in its native Michigan that towns and cities as large as Ann Arbor (which has a population of 113,000+) are *entirely* devoid of Walmart.

* ''Kentucky Fried Chicken'' has a massive fanbase in Japan, partly due to the fact that a bucket of ''[=KFC=]'' is a massive staple of Christmas dinner over there. Heck, it's even to the point where there's a [=KFC=] buffet in Tokyo.

* ''Kentucky Fried Chicken'' has a massive fanbase in Japan, partly due to the fact that a bucket of ''[=KFC=]'' is a massive staple of Christmas dinner over there.

* Products of Creator/{{Sanrio}} are undeniably more popular outside of Japan than inside of it, especially Franchise/HelloKitty, Gudetama and Anime/AggressiveRetsuko.

* While mermaids are decently popular in the US, they're even more popular in Japan, to the point that they're one of the largest non-western markets for mermaid-themed media. Case in point: among the country's most popular movies and manga are the mermaid themed ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'' and ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' respectively. Meanwhile, [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Tokyo Disney Sea]] has made a "Mermaid Lagoon" port about Disney's ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' characters for actual tourist entrance in Japan only, to much acclaim.

* Despite Starbucks being based in Seattle, Seattle only has the seventh in the U.S. in the largest amount of Starbucks locations, beat out by New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Diego. This is mainly because of how popular independent coffee shops are in Seattle.

** The countries that loves Japan the most: [[spoiler: The Philippines and Malaysia]]

** The country that loves Japan the most: [[spoiler: Malaysia]]

* Despite Starbucks being based in Seattle, Seattle only has the 7th most amount of Starbucks location. Beat out by New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Diego. This is mainly because of how popular independent coffee shops are in Seattle.

* Despite Starbucks being based in Seattle, Seattle only has the 7th most amount of Starbucks location. Beat out by New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

* In the US, UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} is seen as a fairly lower-class store that sells cheaply-made items for cheap prices, and is the exemplar in many people's minds for the PredatoryBusiness. Other countries, however, hold a fonder view of the retail giant.

* Adidas tracksuits are surprisingly popular in Russia and it form the "gopnik" street subculture.

* Products of Creator/{{Sanrio}} are undeniably more popular outside of Japan than inside of it, especially Franchise/HelloKitty.

* ''The Guardian'', a [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers British newspaper]], is so popular in the U.S. that an online edition was launched there.

* Similar to Guam in the "Big in Japan" folder are the Northern Mariana Islands. Many Americans have never heard of them but they are popular with Chinese and Korean tourists. It's to the point where Saipan International Airport offers numerous direct flights to and from the two countries while Mainland Americans have to connect through Honolulu and then Guam before finally stepping foot onto the islands.

** The absence of the stigma attached to Walmart and shopping there has been cited as one of [[TroubledProduction the many reasons]] UsefulNotes/{{Target}}'s attempt to establish a presence in Canada failed so miserably: while in the US many people shop at Target to avoid shopping at Walmart, Canadians had no similar compunctions about Walmart to drive them into Target's arms.

* Has happened twice with Sudoku. It was first invented in America in 1979 as "Number Place" [[note]](some French newspapers featured similar puzzles as early as the late 19th century)[[/note]], and was pretty obscure. However, in 1986, it achieved popularity in Japan. In 2005, the puzzle as well as the name itself achieved worldwide popularity. Pretty much the same thing happened with Kakuro.

* Guam is an island out the Pacific Ocean that's officially owned by the the United States, but it's only a territory, not a state. In fact, there's a lot of US citizens that don't even know Guam exists. However, Guam is seen as a very popular vacation resort in Japan, to the point where Guam actually gets most of its money from Japanese tourists.

*** Gun ranges in Hawaii do a good deal of buisness from Japanese tourists. Gun ownership is illegal in Japan so when in America, Japanese tourists take the opportunity to fire a gun, which is perfectly legal in the United States (though Hawaii is a bit more strict than some locations on the mainland).

* Like mermaids, pirates are popular in the US but are absolutely beloved in Japan, to the point where they're one of the largest non-western markets for pirate-themed media. Case in point, the pirate themed manga ''Manga/OnePiece'' is among the bestselling manga in the country. Meanwhile, ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'' grossed $241 million dollars domestically yet grossed $108 million in Japan. While domestic grosses for the ''Franchise/{{Pirates|OfTheCaribbean}}'' franchise has been steadily declining in the states, grosses in Japan have gone UP.

*** Street racing can be divided into two types; The sanctioned ones take place on temporary, designated, sanctioned street tracks with some essential safety features. While the unsanctioned ones takes place on public roads without permissions, and most have utter lack of safety features that sanctioned street races have. This example refers to the latter despite Japan lacks any designated street circuits.

* While more of a city example, The Winchester Mystery House gets far more visitors out of area than those living in Silicon Valley. In fact billboards can be seen in the Los Angeles area.
* 7-Eleven is a very popular convenience store chain in Japan and Taiwan (in fact, the #1 convenience store chain in both countries). The former having the largest number of stores and the latter having the most per capita. It started as a firm in Texas and became a subsidiary of Japanese owned Seven & I Holdings Co - the owner of its Japanese licensee - in 2005. You can find a wide variety of items there that would not appear elsewhere, among with billing and courier services typically find in convenience stores in those countries. Don't expect Slurpees, though: they had never caught on there... until 2011, when they start selling them again (in select outlets at first).

** And not just any coin but the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sacagawea_dollar_obverse.png Sacagawea dollar]] coin representing a Native American woman carrying her child on her back, in fact some people believe it's Ecuadorian coinage as that scene is something you will see more frequently in Ecuador than in the US.
* Friendster is an American company, but a vast majority of its users are in Asia. That is, until it folded.

* Many kinds of crops and livestock have been fundamental to economies far away from their origins. Several Old World species (wheat, sugarcane, grapes, bananas, coffee, cotton, citrus fruits, bananas, cattle and sheep) have been most extensively produced by New World countries (sheep in Australia & New Zealand, cotton in the DeepSouth, sugar in the Caribbean, etc).

* Thanks to a large immigrant population in America, U.S. automakers opened manufacturing plants in Scandinavia to build American market cars instead of European market cars. This led to local Raggare hot rod culture mirroring America's, and created a massive import market for muscle cars during the 1970s fuel crisis. Today, the largest American car show in the world is Sweden's Power Big Meet.

* South Korea '''loves''' breakdance and hip-hop. Brought over by [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American Soldiers]] in the [[TheEighties 80's]], they became very popular in the [[TheNineties 90's]].
* The stereotype in Washington is that Evergreen State College tends to enjoy a much better reputation out of state than in state.

* The UsefulNotes/SocietyForCreativeAnachronism tends to be a ''very'' serious history re-enactment society in Scandinavia and Northern Europe, while it is more like dressing in fancy costumes and having fun in US.

* Department store Mesbla started in 1912 as the Brazilian branch of French car part store Mestre et Blatgé. While the original waned and closed their doors in the 1930s, Mesbla grew to become Brazil's largest department store chain, until its bankrupcy in 1999.
* ''Blockbuster Video'': While the American physical branch was closed in 2013, the franchise was strong in Mexico until 2015, partly because Mexicans didn't embraced the video-on-demand services as much as Americans have, albeit this changed when Blockbuster changed his named in Mexico to The B Store and later folded definitively, leaving Creator/{{Netflix}}, Claro Video, Amazon Prime Video and other streaming services as the only alternatives to watch video in Mexico, besides buying the films directly on stores.

* Rutherford B. Hayes is one of the least known US Presidents, and generally known only for the very dubious circumstances of his election and the ending of the Reconstruction in the South. Yet he's a celebrated national hero in Paraguay, with his own holiday, many street and buildings, a city, a province and even a soccer team named in his honor. Following the disastrous UsefulNotes/WarOfTheTripleAlliance which killed ''two-thirds'' of Paraguay's population, Hayes arbitrated a territorial dispute between Paraguay and Argentina over the territory, and awarded most of the territory, which makes up over half of its current land area, to Paraguay. This was the first step in Paraguay's recovery after the absolutely devastating war, and Paraguayans have been very thankful ever since.

* Sweden has an unexplicable love story with Thailand. Without any historical relationship before modern times, Thailand has become Sweden's most popular travel destination outside Europe. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was traumatic to Sweden; it killed more Swedish people than people from any other tourist country; even more populous ones, such as Germany or the UK. The Thai diaspora in Sweden is growing (mostly through women who look for a Swedish husband) and the Thai restaurants seem to outnumber the pizza places. As of the 2010s, the Thai are the second largest non-European guest worker population in Sweden, behind India. Most Thai workers in Sweden are berry pickers.

* Hong Kong movie studio logos and idents have a bare-bones notoriety in native China. In the US they are so huge that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZtYPsZSMms&list=PLDsaUiquwSTTkdlDQqTGnWVyix8gByrKm a]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZA5yWjOGDE&list=PLrF36ikDbS3ORM2iajDOulKtmuRjlK5ZC few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmk9SWaSL0E&list=PLDsaUiquwSTQbV3-L53Nzvug5XeB8Qe2n video]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19MCkgEZtaw&list=PLDsaUiquwSTQAdTgbrhdqqGbjNweqVYZ7 collections]] were made filled with them.

* Apparently, the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' fic ''FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'' is famous around France. Not surprising, given that's where [[TheHero The Heroine]] and her family are from.

* American engineer and industrial management theorist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming W. Edwards Deming]] was virtually unknown in his home country until TheEighties, late in his life, when all of a sudden, American firms started lining up seeking his advice on how to run a company. Why was this? Because the Japanese Love Deming. He made his name in postwar Japan helping to rebuild their shattered industrial base; his innovations in quality control and continuous improvement in quality and productivity were almost singlehandedly responsible for the Japanese economic miracle of TheFifties, such that he was honored by the Emperor Hirohito in 1960. By the '80s, Japanese firms had used Deming's ideas to become [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld world-beating powerhouses]], and all of a sudden, the American companies that had spurned him in the past became very interested in what he had to say.

* The major founding figures (Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan) in post-structuralism, a major component of UsefulNotes/{{Postmodernism}}, were all French, but the movement enjoyed its greatest success and influence in American universities.

* Buick's popularity in UsefulNotes/{{China}} has been argued to be one of the reasons that brand was spared following General Motors' filing for bankruptcy and subsequently being bailed out by the United States government (stateside, Buick had been reduced to three models in recent years and was marketed mainly as a lower-priced alternate to GM's top-line Cadillac brand). Good news for Buick, bad news for the brand that was ultimately discontinued in the aftermath of the GM bailout: Pontiac[[note]]traditionally marketed as GM's performance division, akin to Fiat Chrysler brand Dodge[[/note]].