History Main / Americasia

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has a non-American example. Konohagakure/The Hidden Leaf Village in was based on Creator/MasashiKishimoto's hometown, which was a Japanese town next to an American military base. This results in a ninja village that's Japanese (culturally and technically) but has adopted some American combat attitudes like never leaving a man behind.

* Konohagakure/The Hidden Leaf Village in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' was based on Creator/MasashiKishimoto's hometown, which was a Japanese town next to an American military base. This results in a ninja village that's culturally Japanese but has some American combat attitudes like never leaving a man behind.

Americasian settings were very common in [[TheEighties '80s]] {{Cyberpunk}}, back when many thought that [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japan was going to take over the world.]] They've been making a comeback in recent years with the increasing popularity of Japanese and Korean culture in the West, along with the recent economic mindset that [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld China will take over the world]]. This trope is pretty specific to American culture rather than just any Western culture, in part because the United States is the closest Western country outside of Oceania to UsefulNotes/TheFarEast thanks to Alaska and has a large and rapidly growing Asian minority concentrated around the country's most culturally influential areas-- UsefulNotes/{{California}}, UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. A major factor was the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965 Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965]], which replaced years of discriminatory country-of-origin quotas in favour of a skills and family reunification based system.