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13[[AC:For added atmosphere, listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIufQKM2K0 this]] while reading.]]
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15When viewed from the outside, the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates of America comes in different flavors. As with most stereotypes, there is a certain amount of TruthInTelevision in both of them.
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17[[#TheBeautiful]]'''America the Beautiful'''
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19A [[{{Utopia}} peaceful paradise on earth]] full of friendly, wise, and good-hearted people whose prosperity is their (God-given) reward for their impeccable virtue. Theirs is a shining city upon a hill guided by destiny: a land of freedom, justice, wealth, and luck, where people can [[ThePromisedLand 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. In short, this is the country that embodies UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. Sometimes based on American media during TheFifties and MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, which portrayed the United States of America as a homey, [[GoodIsOldFashioned traditional]] world of heroes built upon (nuclear) family values, love, and [[IncorruptiblePurePureness old-fashioned simple mindsets]]. This flavor is, of course, no "truer" than any other, and especially not when it comes to individual US citizens.
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22[[#TheBoorish]]''''Murica the Boorish'''
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24A WretchedHive full of [[BloodKnight war-mongering]], [[PointyHairedBoss ignorant]] {{Jerkass}}es whose prosperity, when it exists, is the product of their infinite {{greed}}. Americans come into your country either as [[UglyAmericanStereotype tourists or invaders]], [[ItsAllAboutMe always acting like they own the place]] [[CondescendingCompassion and letting you know how it "should be" run]]. Whenever they talk, it will always be [[NoIndoorVoice as obnoxiously loud]] and [[ClusterFBomb as offensive as possible]], claiming it's "freedom of speech." In the rural areas of the DeepSouth and TheWildWest, you'll find [[FatBastard disgustingly obese]], [[RedScare Red-baiting]], [[TheFundamentalist Bible-thumping]], [[GunNut gun-toting]], {{heteronormative|Crusader}} [[HalfWittedHillbilly redneck]] MoralGuardians who subsist on a diet of [[FastFoodNation synthetic fast food and TV dinners]], while in the cities and everywhere else, you'll find [[UrbanHellscape crime-ridden ghettoes]] full of [[{{Gangsterland}} street gangs and cartels]] desperate to get you [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer addicted to their wares]], vapid {{rich bitch}}es either hailing from or trying to emulate HollywoodCalifornia, and [[TheSocialDarwinist Darwinist]], [[TheScrooge Scrooge-like]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corporate profiteers]] who view [[KillThePoor poor people as a plague upon humanity]] (not that [[LowerClassLout the poor]] are any better). Woe betide you if you're a minority, immigrant (though [[FridgeLogic why on Earth]] you'd ''ever want'' to move there is anyone's guess), or both; at best [[AssimilationPlot you'll be assimilated]] [[GoingNative into the culture]] and become [[CategoryTraitor one of the above]], and at worst you'll be treated as utter vermin by [[{{Obnoxious Entitled Housewi|fe}}ves the]] [[AngryWhiteMan citizens]], [[DirtyCop the law enforcement]], [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny the government itself]], and [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis even other]] [[BoomerangBigot immigrants/minorities]]. And if you're a foreign nation, you'd better hope that your country doesn't have [[ParanoiaFuel some sort of resource or export the Americans want or need]], whether it be gold, oil, or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking 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. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And last but not least,]] they '''suck''' at [[GlobalIgnorance global geography]]. MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks and ''especially'' MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 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.
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26[[#Mixed]]'''Mixed Flavor'''
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28Other works just [[TakeAThirdOption decide to split the difference]], treating America as essentially the BoisterousBruiser IdiotHero of nations: rude, crude, clueless, obnoxious, and vaguely psychotic, but still [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold good-natured beneath it all]]. A famous saying, often [[BeamMeUpScotty misattributed]] to UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, sums up this portrayal well: "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing... after they've first tried everything else."
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30Since this {{trope}} is about outsiders looking at the USA, you can expect most of the information here to be incredibly [[ThemeParkVersion stereotyped]] and (potentially) culturally offensive to actual Americans. If you happen to see a work that portrays the United States or its people ''as a whole'' as The Boorish, but it's actually an ''American'' production, that will be a case of CulturalCringe, MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting, or BoomerangBigot; likewise, an American indulging in The Beautiful is not this trope either, and would better fit into CreatorProvincialism, PatrioticFervor, or MyCountryRightOrWrong. And if the work in question doesn't delve into blanket judgment either way but simply refers to US culture and history by both structuralist and functionalist examples, then you're probably reading an in-depth history book. See also MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales; America's strong tradition of self-satire means they are very likely to enjoy foreign depictions, even boorish ones.
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32The {{memetic|Mutation}} term '''Murica'' is related to these interpretations: that America is either a [[WorldOfBadass Land of Heroes]], or a WretchedHive. For the symbolism this trope is named after, see AmericanEagle (though the actual TropeNamer is ''[[VideoGame/{{Earth Bound 1994}} EarthBound]]'').
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34!!Related tropes include:
35* TheAllAmericanBoy
36* AmericanRobot
37* AmericanTitle
38* AmericansAreCowboys: Need to quickly display that a character is American? Just stick a ten-gallon hat on his or her head and a six-shooter in each hand and call it a day.
39* BigApplesauce: "America" defaults to "New York City" at least in the eyes of the (largely NYC based) arts community
40** On a regional scale, residents of Upstate New York will almost ''always'' have to clarify "The State, not the City" when mentioning that they come from New York.
41** Outsiders who are aware New York is also a state are often surprised that an obscure place such as Albany [[note]] "Where's Albany?"[[/note]] is the state capital; people tend to assume the state of New York is governed from the city of New York.
42* TheBigEasy: New Orleans.
43* DeepSouth: The Boorish portrayal of the American south.
44* DownOnTheFarm: Rural America, typically somewhere in the "corn belt".
45* EverythingIsBigInTexas: It has been said that Americans view Texas the way the rest of the world views Americans. This used to be said of California, as well; both states are (in)famous in America for rampant individualism, flakes, nuts, and [[BiggerIsBetter Everything More and Bigger]], but the two have very different approaches to this.
46* EverytownAmerica: The stereotypical generic small town found almost everywhere in fiction and practically nowhere in reality.
47* FlagDrop: Expect American flags to be prominently displayed beyond both Beautiful and Boorish patriots.
48* FlyoverCountry: Generally the vast expanses between the two coasts, more specifically the Midwest.
49* {{Gangsterland}}: South Central Los Angeles is infamous for this, but other depictions of Gangsterland may be based on Newark and Camden (both in New Jersey), and some areas of Philadelphia. Older ones are usually based on UsefulNotes/AlCapone-era UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, or on New York in either the 19th Century or the post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII period (especially the 1970s and onward, with many overlapping stereotypes with hip-hop culture).
50* HawaiianShirtedTourist: If a ten-gallon hat is too stereotypical, Hawaiian shirts work just as well in showing that a character is American.
51* HollywoodCalifornia: A large portion of American films and TV shows are made and/or filmed in California, and even then in only a few select sections of it. This gives a biased impression to the rest of the world (and sometimes even to the rest of the United States itself, including other parts of California) of what the U.S.A. is like.
52* HollywoodNewEngland: Lobster, cod, baked beans, and Boston accents mashed together in ways no real New Englander would recognize.
53* HulaAndLuaus
54* InjunCountry
55* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans
56* {{Joisey}}: If Hollywood (more specifically ''Series/JerseyShore'') is to be believed, ''everyone'' in New Jersey is apparently of Italian descent, speaks with a nasally accent, uses insane amounts of hair gel, goes to nightclubs, and spends their summers doing nothing but tanning at the shore. And New Jersey's citizens, especially the tourism industry, and '''extra'''- especially [[BerserkButton actual Italian-Americans,]] are not very happy about it.
57* LovecraftCountry: The dark side of New England.
58* OnlyInFlorida: The state best known for sunshine, beaches, theme parks, citrus, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick mind-bendingly weird behavior]].
59* OnlyInMiami: Anything set in Florida that isn't DeepSouth will probably be set here.
60* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: a common variant of America the Boorish, as are its cousins DividedStatesOfAmerica and FallenStatesOfAmerica.
61* PompousPoliticalPundit: Generally see themselves as the Beautiful. Are frequently seen by others as the Boorish.
62* SinisterSouthwest: The scary side of the American Southwest.
63* SouthernGothic: The creepy side of the American South.
64* SweetHomeAlabama: The Beautiful portrayal of the American South.
65* TranslationByVolume: Americans of the boorish category never, ever speak a foreign language, and they speak with foreigners using English only in a loud and condescending manner. Particularly bad examples may question why languages other than English even exist or insist on calling it "American" (as in "Speak American, damn it!").
66* UglyAmericanStereotype: The typical unpleasant American tourist.
67* UnitedSpaceOfAmerica
68* VivaLasVegas
69* TheWildWest
70* WildWilderness
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72!!Examples:
73[[index]]
74* Eagleland/AnimeAndManga
75* Eagleland/LiveActionTV
76* Eagleland/VideoGames
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80!!The Beautiful
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82[[folder:Arts]]
83* ''Art/TheApotheosisOfWashington'': George Washington has risen to the ranks of the divine as a symbol of American greatness. Now he's above the five Greek gods who bless America's trades and Lady Freedom herself.
84* Art/StatueOfLiberty: She symbolizes the opportunity America provides and its dedication to preserving human freedom. Even cynics get sentimental about it.
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87[[folder:Comic Books]]
88* Within the wider Franchise/MarvelUniverse, second generation immigrant creation ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is one of the most respected and admired heroes in- and out-of-universe for being America the Beautiful incarnate. He's so idolized that if readers think the writers are somehow disrespecting the ideals that Captain America stands for, they'll take it personally (see the fan reactions to Sally Floyd's lecture during ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'', [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]] championing political causes during [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSamWilson his tenure as Cap]], and Steve's FaceHeelTurn in ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'')
89* Franchise/{{Superman}}, who was created by the children of Jewish immigrants and is himself a refugee fills much the same role for the Franchise/DCUniverse. "He fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
90* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In the [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden]] and [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Ages,]] ComicBook/WonderWoman reflected the shining positives of the U.S. as an immigrant to the country. After meeting Col. ComicBook/SteveTrevor, she decks herself out in a uniform based on the American flag and eagle when she leaves Paradise Island to fight the Nazis and other evils of the outside world.
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93[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
94* ''Film/BlackHawkDown'': TheDragon sarcastically presents a Beautiful outlook of Americans: they don't drink, don't smoke, and live long, healthy, uninteresting lives. And [[ExecutiveMeddling behind the scenes]], the U.S. military gave the film technical support in exchange for [[http://www.cracked.com/article_23276_5-shadowy-forces-that-secretly-screwed-with-big-tv-movies.html changing the name of a soldier who was later convicted of raping his daughter]].
95* ''Film/{{Umrika}}'': InUniverse, Ramakant's village has a very idealistic view of America, helped along by Udai's supposed correspondence portraying the nation as beautiful, welcoming, and full of sights and sounds.
96* ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', a {{Biopic}} of George M. Cohan starring Creator/JamesCagney, had just started production when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Creator/WarnerBros decided to make the most patriotic, Beautiful Eagleland movie ever made. It works.
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99[[folder:Literature]]
100* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' has a pretty good example of the Beautiful 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.]]
101* Subverted by Creator/OscarWilde in "Literature/TheCantervilleGhost". "Americans have everything in common with us now-a-days except the Language."
102* Corellia in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, with the exception of ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'', is written as deeply Beautiful. Corellians are proud, enterprising, independent, and inventive people whose ingenuity led to the development of hyperspace travel, whose military might kept the peace in the farthest corners of the Galaxy, and whose liberal political culture formed the bedrock of democracy in the Galactic Republic. The planet was seen as representing the Republic's soul.
103* ''Literature/WithoutSeeingTheDawn'', set at the beginning of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in the American Philippines, has its rural Filipino characters patiently believing that America will save them from the Japanese invasion. Pretty ironic though considering the country was a flat-out U.S. ''colonial territory'' at the time, though American policymakers had supposedly committed to a timeline for granting Philippine independence within a half-decade from the novel's time setting.
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106[[folder:Music]]
107* Basically the entire career of Music/JohnPhilipSousa was built on writing [[{{March}} patriotic marches]] that are either odes to or evocative of this trope. One of them, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBAoIh809dU Stars and Stripes Forever]]", is basically the {{Leitmotif}} of this type of Eagleland.
108* "American Woman", originally by The Guess Who, painted the U.S. as The Boorish. Then Lenny Kravitz [[CoveredUp covered it up]] with a funk remix and a music video with American flags, hot girls on choppers and muscle cars, and Creator/HeatherGraham dancing on top of a bus. Because of that, it's today regarded as more The Beautiful in style regardless of its lyrics. Incidentally, The Guess Who claimed ''American Woman'' was never intended to be anti-American in the first place.
109* The theme song to ''VideoGame/{{Broforce}}'' praises the titular team as the protector of American values, but never mentions the nation by name and is performed by a South African.
110* The song [[https://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 StepfordSmiler result.
111* Music/{{Blur}}'s song "Magic America", which is about a man who moves to America entirely because of this view of the country.
112* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr--GVIoluU U.S.A.]]" by the Japanese boy band DA PUMP describes America as the land of dreams.
113* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpyJ3aOUEU U.S. Boy]] by French singer Jena Lee. The song includes mentions of U.S. celebrities and TV shows and this chorus line "U.S. boys sont le rêve des French girls! / On veut un American boyfriend forever" which does not need translating to know it's a Beautiful outlook.
114* "Coming to America" by Creator/NeilDiamond presents America as a beacon of liberty and opportunity, where people from all over come to seek their dreams.
115* "Which Way to America?" by Music/LivingColour questions why everything about America on TV is beautiful but everything outside the window is boorish.
116* "Our Country" by Music/JohnMellencamp celebrates a populist vision of the Beautiful while acknowledging problems, declaring "there's room enough here" to work them out. Mellencamp as an older rock'n'roll artist gets so little airplay on commercial stations that he departed from his usual standards and allowed this to be used in a Chevrolet truck commercial.
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119[[folder:Pinball]]
120* ''Pinball/GunsNRosesJerseyJack'': The mode "Shall We Play a Game?" [[ImpliedTrope suggests]] a positive portrayal of America, since the goal is to spread traditionally "American" values like freedom and justice to RedChina.
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123[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
124* Wrestling/HarleyRace serves on the [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH Global Honored Crown]] sanction committe and is seen as one of the biggest sources of legitimacy for the group. Nothing else really needs to be said.
125* LLF fans are famous for their love of wrestlers from the US, to the point Christie Ricci's {{rud|o}}a run failed and the promotion rarely even tried to book them as anything other than {{tecnic|o}}as following, except sometimes against each other when [[Wrestling/VelvetSky Talia Madison]] and April Hunter ganged up on [[Wrestling/SaraDelRey American Angel]] after Angel's inevitable HeelFaceTurn. Fans who dare ''{{c|rowdchant}}hant'' "USA" do tend to get shouted down, but the U.S. wrestlers tend to become so [[ImmigrantPatriotism patriotic]] Mexico related chants work just as well.
126* Citizens of the U.S. are traditionally treated very well in Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1, such as their "friendship" series with Action Zone Wrestling in Hawaii and the GorgeousGaijin run of [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Leonardo Spanky]]. Wrestling/LowKi tried antagonizing the audience but they still ended up falling in love with him, ditto Wrestling/AJStyles. The promotion was also notorious for proping up struggling U.S. promotions like the California based Ultimate Pro Wrestling and promoting otherwise defunct belts of U.S.-based promotions like the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation. Even legendary heels like Wrestling/SherriMartel tend to be treated with reverence, which is generally recepriocated once they [[FaceRealization eventually give in]].
127* Chilanga Mask fans tend to be very accepting of luchadores from the US, to the point fans of other Mexican enterprises [[CategoryTraitor consider them disrespectful]], to the point even rookies like Wrestling/LioRush can become instant fan favorites while they all but beg the audience to boo them. The one line they won't cross is {{c|rowdchant}}hanting USA, which at least got them to be silent when ACH suggested it, but then they went back to cheering ACH over Ricky Marvin after the shock wore off. It's not just mat technicians like Rush or high fliers like ACH either, as GarbageWrestler Masada was mad over too, as was criminal record brawler Raymond Rowe, though they were able to get heat against each against other USA wrestler.[[/folder]]
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129[[folder:Radio]]
130* On June 5, 1973[[note]](as the U.S. was pulling out of the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar while facing economic hardship and intense internal and external criticism)[[/note]], 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 CulturalPosturing on America's behalf included), but when disasters happen in the U.S., other countries don't pitch in to help. 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 UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror sparked a huge surge in people who view Americans through a Boorish lens, the broadcast again made the rounds, this time on the Internet.
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133[[folder:Theatre]]
134* One of the earliest versions comes from Creator/WilliamShakespeare's play ''Theatre/TheComedyOfErrors''. Dromio compares the bejeweled nose of Nell to the great riches of America, a glowing praise of the place compared to the blatant insults directed towards other countries in the same speech.
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137[[folder:Web Videos]]
138* Episode 5 of ''WebVideo/MissingReel'', "Car Chase Movies," has the narrator talk about how American muscle cars such as the Dodge Challenger were the most common type in car chase movies and how it was the last era of UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}'s dominance of the auto industry.
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141[[folder:Webcomics]]
142* The U.S. Forces in Japan [[InvokedTrope invoked]] America the Beautiful with their comic ''Our Alliance - A Lasting Partnership''. It stars Usa-kun, an AdorablyPrecociousChild, guarding the older Japanese stand-in, as a way of explaining why American forces are stationed in Japan through a Beautiful lens.
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145[[folder:Western Animation]]
146* The Big Guy from ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' is, in-universe, a Beautiful representative of America: he's the product of a collaboration between the U.S. and Japan. Lines like "I 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.
147* The ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "The Trip To America" has Texas Jack [=McGraw=], whom Penfold describes as "this weird cowboy." Jack clearly isn't too bright (getting tricked by Greenback very easily), but he's definitely a good guy and, in classic cowboy movie fashion, shows up to [[TheCavalry rescue DM and Penfold at the last minute.]]
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149
150!!The Boorish
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152[[folder:Alternate Reality Games]]
153* ''ARG/OmegaMart'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROOGLYvQdDs Americanized Beef]] is aimed at rural Boorish types, with lyrics sung in a thick Southern accent promising people who buy it will "no longer feel like a special snowflake" and ending with the slogan "Make America Taste Great Again," and a cow mascot implying only DirtyCommunists wouldn't buy it.
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156[[folder:Comic Books]]
157* ''[[http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics217.html Dilly Dreem]]'' has a view of Americans as Boorish. When she hears that Americans will be taking over her school, she envisions the radical changes they will make, including turning the school into a New York City skyscraper, changing the school sport to baseball, and turning the local tuckshop into a soda fountain frequented by beatniks. [[spoiler:Though it's later shown that it was just a misunderstanding on her part, and the Americans portrayed are very normal and laid back. If anything, much of it seems to be about xenophobia and stereotypes]]
158* In ''Comicbook/UntoldTalesOfSpiderman'' #-1, Richard and Mary Parker (Peter Parker's parents) exploited this point of view in India by playing "Ugly Americans" with two goons guarding an enemy installation, portraying themselves as crude and tacky tourists while asking the guards if they'd be so nice as to take their picture. Figuring they had better send these annoying foreigners on their way as quickly and with as little drama as possible, the guards fell for the ruse, the "camera" the Parkers gave them actually being a knock-out gas dispenser.
159* In ''Adventures in the Rifle Brigade'', Private Hank the Yank (as he is listed in official documentation) is an American who hopped the pond to get a jump-start on all that "war" business, and the only American in the otherwise all-British team. An explosives expert wearing a constant grimace and who only ever says "GAWD DAMMIT!", he's a lovely collection of stereotypes (you see, he's really, really stupid and violent) that fits right in with the rest of the Brigade. To be perfectly fair, the series doesn't let the Brits off very lightly, either. Captain Hugo "Khyber" Darcy is a ridiculously exaggerated caricature of a stuffy upper class Brit; being shown constantly spewing hatred towards "jerries" (including going so far as to claim that Germany's fatal mistake in the war was ''not being Britain''), and is unshakably convinced that America is still a British colony (otherwise he would've shot Private Hank ages ago).
160* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'':
161** The Comedian is an amoral, trigger-happy, sadistic black ops U.S. agent who also happens to be a rapist and mass-murderer. In a dark subversion/deconstruction of CaptainPatriotic, he wears a flag-printed costume as a way of mocking the American way; he doesn't actually care about American values and became a masked vigilante only as an outlet to vent his violent urges.
162** Hector Godfrey of the New Frontiersman is also a strong example. To better elaborate, he once wrote an article in which he actually tried ''defending the Ku Klux Klan''.
163* The French graphic novel ''ComicBook/WeaponsOfMassDiplomacy'' exploits it for all its worth. The politicians that represent the United States, while looking kind and being nice to talk to, want nothing more than to conquer the world by having a new war to start up so that they might end up having entire nations under their control, hiding all of those ideas behind euphemisms. Entire chapters are devoted to stopping the United States from declaring a war.
164* '''ComicBook/{{Rocky}}'' portrays America as exclusively Boorish, but it is also made abundantly clear that this has more to do with Rocky being an UnreliableNarrator with a HairTriggerTemper and a bee up his arse about his American ex-girlfriend than with anything about America.
165-->'''Manny:''' Come on! You have to admit that the Grand Canyon was pretty cool!\
166'''Rocky:''' Meh. Oversized, gaudy and vulgar.
167* The [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel]] supervillain Nuke, a psychotic [[SuperSoldier super soldier]] who is obsessed with killing "enemies of America". He's basically a very [[EvilCounterpart twisted version]] of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
168* ''ComicBook/{{Classwar}}'', being a British comic about American superheroes published in the early aughts, paints a dark picture of America as a country with a corrupt, warmongering administration and a largely apathetic populace.
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171[[folder:Fan Works]]
172* ''Fanfic/TruthAndConsequences'': The American mercenary group Mayor Andrej hires to capture Chat Noir are little more than thugs-for-hire toting assault rifles. They talk a big game but accomplish almost nothing outside of harassing Parisian citizens and run like cowards the minute they're faced with an actual Akuma.
173--> '''Mayura:''' And here I thought Americans with assault rifles were the answer to all life's problems.
174* Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises is set within America. Everything from its medical establishment to it's education system is mercilessly lampooned.
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177[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
178* Being a Russian nationalistic, Orthodox Christian propaganda film, ''WesternAnimation/ChildrenVSWizards'' depicts the American military as ugly and evil bastards in cahoots with the magicians at [[WizardingSchool HAOS]]. Moreover, they even sends a fleet of ships, planes, and submarines to protect the school's Global Congress from any Russian forces trying to disrupt it.
179* Donald Curtis from ''Anime/PorcoRosso'' is an exceptional #2 example. "Make way for the American!" He plans to be a Hollywood actor and later president. [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Sound familiar?]]
180* ''WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville'': While all of the characters are drawn in odd, exaggerated ways, Americans in particular are depicted as enormously fat and impossibly decadent. To drive the point home, the [[https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/mediaviewer/rm2905095168/ Statue of Liberty herself]] is a rotund woman holding a dripping ice cream cone rather than a torch, while the tablets in her other hand are being used as a tray for a gigantic hamburger.
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184* ''Extremely'' prevalent in Chinese cinema, where virtually all depictions of Americans show them as either ruthless thugs, schemers and pretty much any other sort of stock villain caricature you can think of. Examples vary, from the occupation force in [[Creator/JetLi Jet Li's]] film ''Born to Defence'' (1986) to the blatantly cheating and arrogant fighter "Twister" (though he is British, but he embodied boorish American stereotype) from ''Film/IpMan2''. (Though there are many cases where the Americans [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales find the portrayals entertaining]].) The highest grossing movie ever in China as of 2017, ''Wolf Warriors 2'', has a murderous American mercenary commander as the BigBad who the Chinese protagonist [[MightyWhitey must defeat in order to nobly protect the helpless Africans.]] Given how all Chinese films are [[BackedByThePentagon backed by their Government]], the propagandic bent isn't the least bit surprising. The movie was released around the time where American and NATO government representatives, as well as human rights group, starts putting pressure toward China for the alleged human rights violations in the Chinese territory of Xinjiang, in which the Chinese government responds as "fake", "fabricated" or "meddling of national affairs". Note that big American films as of 2010 to this day generally avoid depicting China the same way, as China remains a big market for American action movies and most Hollywood movies are co-produced with Chinese studios in order to be treated as domestic product in China due to tightening import laws.
185* ''Film/InBruges'':
186** Ray comes across three morbidly obese American tourists whom he (rather rudely) advises not to climb the Belfry Tower.
187--->'''Tourist:''' What exactly are you trying to say?\
188'''Ray:''' What exactly I am trying to say? You's are a bunch of fucking elephants.\
189''[Tourist snaps and tries to catch up to him and beat him up, but quickly runs out of breath]''\
190'''Ray:''' Come, leave it, [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown fatty]].
191** Then there is the cocky American-accented couple whom Ray knocks out ([[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope who turn out to be]] Canadian]]), and the midget actor:
192--->'''Actor:''' [[LampshadeHanging Try not to hold it against me.]]\
193'''Ken:''' I'll try not to. Just try not to say anything too loud or crass.
194* ''Film/IronSky'': The American President is a Sarah Palin parody.
195* The movie based on Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'' has the character Twoflower as a completely oblivious American tourist complete with straw hat, Hawaiian print shirt, and camera. This is different from the book, however, as Twoflower is from the Agaetean empire and is the local equivalent of a JapaneseTourist.
196* A montage in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' shows daily life in various world cities being interrupted by ''daikaiju'' attacks. Apparently, daily life in New York consists of pimps pulling guns on cops in the middle of the street. Also, the two American main characters are a quite possibly insane BadassNormal (emphasis on the "badass") and a self-important NietzscheWannabe, neither of whom, despite living in Tokyo, [[GratuitousEnglish ever say one word in Japanese]]. Kazama spoke English in only, like, two parts of the movie: during the Ebirah fight and the "Watch it, X Man!" line.
197* In the German film ''Kein Bund für's Leben'', the Americans (especially the commander) are mostly Boorish but with a subversion: The German soldiers are worse!
198* The American president in ''Film/LoveActually'' fits neatly into the second category, a combination of UsefulNotes/BillClinton (a sleazy womanizer) and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush (bullying behavior and accent). When the UK's prime minister (played by Creator/HughGrant, of course) tells him off, it is portrayed as his defining moment as a leader.
199* All of Lars Von Trier's movies that deal with America (''Dogville'', ''Dear Wendy'', etc.) depict America as a severe Boor. Or course, he's never actually ''been'' to America, but that shouldn't stop him from being able to portray it as hateful and evil, right?
200* In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' the Americans are portrayed as being generally sleazy and amoral, [[TokenGoodTeammate with the exception of Felix Leiter.]]
201* Just about any piece of communist [[PropagandaMachine propaganda]] would portray America as land filled with crazy fascists who do nothing but [[KickTheDog oppress the starving poor]], a barely controlled state of violent anarchy, or some combination of both. For example, here is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MaoHVrIH5s one]] from UsefulNotes/NorthKorea.
202* Soviet silent film ''Film/MissMend'' is about an American anti-Bolshevik terrorist organization plotting to unleash chemical and biological warfare in Russia.
203* UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film ''Film/{{Hisss}}'' has American George States as the BigBad. He is a racist, abusive, vicious, ruthless, all-around despicable individual who pretty much plays "Evil White Guy" to a degree even Indian viewers wince at. Most of his screentime is spent [[BadBoss abusing]] his local Indian [[{{Mooks}} hired help]] for no reason other than he's bored.
204* ''Film/FirstBlood'' is an American film set in Hope, a seedy hick town in Washington State where the local [[DirtyCop Dirty Sheriff]] and antagonist of the film runs the place like he owns it and arrests a homeless Vietnam vet named John Rambo on obviously false charges like "vagrancy" (John is guilty of no wrongdoing and wanted to enter only to get something to eat). [[BullyingADragon Carnage ensues.]] The film is an anti-war psychological thriller that deals with the dehumanisation and mistreatment of TheVietnamVet and depicts America in quite a negative light, unlike the subsequent {{Actionized Sequel}}s that present America's role in the world ''much'' more optimistically.
205* ''Film/MarsAttacks'': As a parody of 1950's sci-fi BMovie schlock, AmericaSavesTheDay... but America is a WorldOfJerkass except for a handful of characters, and [[AssholeVictim most of said jerks end up being vaporized by Martian death rays]]. General Decker is a perfect example to pick out of the group, a crazed WarHawk who keeps exalting the greatness of America's military as his DefiantToTheEnd SedgwickSpeech.
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209* A nice prime example of Boorish from Conan Doyle, in ''two'' of his Literature/SherlockHolmes novels, no less.
210** Both ''A Study in Scarlet'' and ''The Valley of Fear'' suffer from the more gruesome Boorish in their respective second half. The first one deals with early Mormons, all taking place in Utah. The second in the fictional Vermissa Valley, curiously being vaguely inspired by true events. Both are pretty much the same, with the narration being focused on [[OnlySaneMan two or three characters]] who're steadily developed as they run through their exploits. As for everyone else, [[AxCrazy well...]] ''A Study in Scarlet'''s second half took place during the Mormon immigration, when all the Mormons were more or less literally driven out of the rest of the country and forced to move to Utah, which was apparently the only place people hated enough to actually send Mormons to; and the book itself was first published only a couple of decades after. It's not outside the realm of possibility that Doyle had only ever heard of Mormons from Americans, who, this being the 1870s and 1880s, would not have nice things to say about Mormons.
211** "The Five Orange Pips" features that fine old American institution, the Ku Klux Klan. The letters KKK that appear on a note in the story were no doubt intended to be mysterious and exotic to British readers, but it's kind of an in-story spoiler for those in the U.S., most of whom will immediately guess exactly what's being referred to.
212* Ditto for Creator/IanFleming's ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels involving Americans (''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}'' and ''Literature/DiamondsAreForever''): No sentence is complete without at least one "buster", "buddy" or "...see?"
213* In ''Partners in Crime'' Creator/AgathaChristie depicts an abrasive American who calls Europe "Yurrop" (actually this pretty much is how Americans pronounce it). He's the bad guy.
214* Let's just say most of the writers from the Latin-American MagicRealism movement had a bad image of the USA and leave it at that. García Marquez's ''Literature/TheAutumnOfThePatriarch'' where Americans appear as manipulative diplomats who literally [[MagicRealism steal the sea]] at a moment of economic trouble in the country of the dictator.
215* ''Literature/TheUglyAmerican'' is about American foreign aid workers struggling to win hearts and minds for the USA while being sabotaged by a variety of Boorish Eaglelanders.
216* The ''Literature/SpaceCaptainSmith'' series contains two {{Fantasy Counterpart Culture}}s to the United States. The one that gets the main screentime and the main human villainous faction, the Democratic Republic of New Eden, is an uber-militarised, racist ([[FantasticRacism fantastic]] and [[PoliticalyIncorrectVillain mundane]]), misogynistic fascist state with a pseudo-Christian death cult as the state religion.
217* In ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'', Corellia is a FantasyCounterpartCulture of the United States written as extremely Boorish. Corellians are loud, boorish, violent thugs who have a myopic worldview outside the immediate concerns of their culture and national government, and their government is distrustful of international organizations for being dictatorial while being fascist under a thin veneer of democratic rule. Note, though, that some of the Star Wars universe's most beloved characters (Han Solo and Wedge Antilles, for starters) are Corellian, and the qualities that make them so awesome are often stated to be common among Corellians. And in ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'', the galactic government the Corellians are so distrustful of winds up being ''even worse''.
218* Creator/GregEgan's short story "In the Ruins" reads somewhat like a parody of this trope: [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the not-too-distant future]], American culture has ramped up its AntiIntellectualism so far that scientists are [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect marginalized and called "poopy-heads"]]; the actual word "scientist" having completely dropped out of the English language. Meanwhile, other countries like Egypt and China have advanced and replaced First World countries in terms of scientific knowledge, to the point that aspiring young American students actually compete for scholarships overseas, as they know that they will never get any respect or make any notable discoveries in their home country. The (Egyptian) professor hosting the scholarship opportunity laments that America used to be the country that others looked up to, but now it has fallen into a "[[JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit Kardashian Type Three]]" state and will likely collapse soon. Strangely enough, however, even the vapid {{Valley Girl}}s understand enough physics to answer the scholarship questions in this world; the protagonist, who is one, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere only throws a hissy fit]] because she didn't think the problem through, and later realizes that she might have actually gotten the scholarship if she hadn't been so overconfident. That said, because it's [[spoiler:an IgnoredEpiphany]], this still counts as Boorish rather than Mixed.
219* ''Literature/{{Mass}}'' is set around 1970, amidst the background of the (imperialist) U.S.'s support of the ascendant, would-be Philippine dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. Protests are raised over this as well as the gigantic U.S. bases then active in the Philippines at the time.
220* ''Give Peas a Chance'', a short story from the collection of the same name, involves [[ItMakesSenseInContext a boy refusing to eat vegetables or do chores until world peace is declared, convincing others to do (essentially) the same, and succeeding at it.]] America is mentioned as the last country to destroy their weaponry because they keep making up excuses, and do so only because kids aren't eating [=McDonalds=], and that's hurting the economy. [[spoiler: At the end, they use vegetables to invade Iran because the latter is now defenceless.]]
221* There is a 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 The Boorish 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."
222* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', part of the U.S. goes through Boorish and into outright diabolical. The most visible American occult defense agency, the Black Chamber, is described as "less a sister agency, and more of a bunny-boiling ex-girlfriend" and they use things like MindControl and DemonicPossession on ''their agents'' as a matter of routine. In a series where The King In Yellow is a recurring antagonist, and they found a way to make UsefulNotes/RomanVonUngernSternberg a vaguely heroic figure, the Black Chamber is the closest thing to capital-E Evil. However, the President, most civilians, and some other organizations like the Comstock Office (another U.S. occult agency) fits more into the Beautiful camp.
223** Two of the major one-shot villains in the series were Americans, and firmly in the Boorish camp. Both of them were greedy, gullible, short-sighted and all too willing to call up things they didn't understand in the name of profit [=and/or=] Jeebus.
224* In ''Literature/DerSchwarm'', all the American characters in charge are negative stereotypes in some way of another. The president is the typical, self-righteous Christian conservative; Li is the classical Asian-American overachiever; Vanderbilt is the fat, greasy jerkass; and Peak is the brutal black man who climbed his way up from a ghetto. Even Frost, who is American too despite not being in charge, is still a cowboy with NoIndoorVoice.
225* ''Literature/{{Gate}}'' offers a pretentious example of this. Americans are depicted as being schemers who use military force to get whatever they want. But what makes it ''really'' annoying for viewers is that the [[DoubleStandard Japanese do the exact same thing in this alternate world, often simply using their superior technology to force something, if they don't get their way.]] It is worth noting, however, that the series doesn't specifically reserve this treatment just for America; pretty much ''every other nation on the planet'' save for Japan itself is depicted as some form of villainous.
226* In ''Literature/TheSheepLookUp'', John Brunner wants you to know he doesn't think highly of the United States. While none of the novel's world is in great shape, the narrative hammers home that America is actually lagging behind the rest of the West in terms of living conditions, despite being the leading industrial nation on the whole choked-up planet; in fact, this excess of industry is the very reason why the country's in bad shape, for all its claims at progress and prosperity. And yet despite all of that, too many Americans stubbornly refuse to recognise how deeply they're wading in filth;
227--> ''What hurt [Michael] most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to anyone who might help, was that in spite of the evidence around them, in spite of what their eyes and ears reported—and sometimes their flesh, from bruises, stab wounds, racking coughs, weeping sores—these people believed their way of life was the best in the world, and were prepared to export it at the point of a gun.''
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231* ''Manhua/SchoolShock'' presents the Americans as aggressive diplomats with their default tactic being war threats, however backing down when some kind of resistance is shown (though the resister in this case was China). At least their president has an afro and a big smile.
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235* ''Music/AmericanIdiot''...sort of. While the TitleTrack has been the go-to song for the Boorish, the album as a whole deconstructs the {{Punk}} movement and by the time "Letterbomb" occurs, JOS realizes he's the real American Idiot, but still counts since mindless rebellion is just as bad as blind obedience.
236* Subverted by Music/KateBush with "[[http://gaffa.org/sensual/l_potp.html Pull Out the Pin]]" ([[http://gaffa.org/dreaming/td_potp.html with comments]]). She's confirmed it's meant to subvert the flavor in interviews.
237* The song "Amerika" by the German band Music/{{Rammstein}} basically is all about The Boorish. Don't let the beat or cheery-sounding refrain fool you, the lyrics (and music video) satirize this trope rather blatantly. One of the lines says "[[GratuitousEnglish this is not a love song]]" in case you forget it's about America being portrayed as Boorish. The lyrics, however, are more of a mixed flavor, describing how Americans aggressively push their culture and values around the globe [[KnightTemplar because they honestly believe they're the best in the world]]. The band's synth keyboard player has expressed a vehemently Boorish opinion of America.
238** Ironically much like "America, Fuck Yeah!", "Amerika" became a case of InsultBackfire over time, with quite a few Americans (despite knowing the song's intended purpose) [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales embracing it as an anthem of sorts]]. A love song it may not be, yet all the same it's hard not to associate its catchy-yet-heavy melody to the USA's MemeticBadass image.
239* "Buy American" by Music/{{Joywave}} (who are themselves from UsefulNotes/{{Rochester}}, [[MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting U.S.A.]]) is a satirical hot take on the nation's wasteful consumer culture.
240* "51st State" by British band New Model Army.
241* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N364vtxijn0 America]] by Music/PainOfSalvation. Have anti American sentiments ever been this upbeat?
242* "(Let's Play) U.S.A." by Music/PeterSchilling (best known for "Major Tom") is a nasty version of The Boorish with a cheery pop beat.
243* The Brazilian show ''Comédia MTV'' made a parody of The Boorish named ""[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB780oK6F9M I'm American]]", with the singers singing in English (with Portuguese subtitles).
244* "Fucking USA" by South Korean activist Yoon Min-suk, another nasty Boor in the style of "Surfin' USA." It was highly popular among Koreans after the Yangju highway incident and controversy at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
245* "Dear American" by South Korean rock band N.EX.T is another song protesting the Iraq War and the Yangju highway incident, among other things. The lyrics called for the killing of American soldiers, police officers, ''and'' their "daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers," slowly and painfully. [[note]]Yes, [[RealityIsUnrealistic America and Americans were hated that much in the 2000's]], though the hate has subsided in favor of North Korea due to recent tensions and the ever so-present hatred of Japan.[[/note]]
246** Music/{{PSY}} and a number of other popular Korean artists jointly performed this song with N.EX.T at an anti-American concert in 2004 (he did ''not'' write the song, despite some claims). When news of this broke internationally years later, PSY issued a public statement apologizing for doing so.
247* "[[http://www.venezuela.ch/cancionero/elnorteesunaquimera.html El Norte es una quimera]]" ("The North is an illusion") composed by Venezuelan Luis Fragachan, is the lament of a person who goes to the USA to get success and fails so horribly he has to go back to his country. It's implied that most of the complaining is merely SourGrapes, since the song was inspired by a friend of the composer who decided to go to New York to get success, but the guy went at the height of the Prohibition era [[note]]Venezuelans base most of their social interactions in drinking[[/note]] and along that, the language barrier, and the cultural shock between the cosmopolitan city and the very quaint (at the time) Caracas, the poor dude was so shocked that back in the country he complained on his perceived slights of N.Y., and how most to the returnees came back with a swollen head. Still, too many people sing the thing straight.
248--->Todo el que va a Neva York [[note]]Every one who goes to New York[[/note]]
249--->se vuelve tan embustero [[note]]becomes such a liar[[/note]]
250--->que si allá lavaba platos [[note]]that if there he was a dishwasher[[/note]]
251--->aquí dice que era platero [[note]]here he says he was a silversmith[[/note]]
252* "This is America," by British band Spacehog, portrays Americans as obsessed with television and video games, ignorant of their own history, violent, "needy, cheap and greedy."
253* "I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.", by Music/TheClash, criticizes the Americanizing of England.
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257* John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman's podcast ''The Bugle'' has "the American" (played by Rory Albanese, whom Oliver works with on ''Series/TheDailyShow''), whose entire character is Boorish. 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."
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261* [[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 [[http://www.dmko.info/titel.pdf likened American companies to parasites]], draining German companies of their profitability then selling them off later. The article caused [[http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/germanys_larges.html significant uproar]] in Germany, to say the least.
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265* Almost half of Wrestling/{{AAA}}'s La Legion Extranjera, foreign thugs used by Wrestling/{{Konnan}} in his attempt to gain more power in the company, were from the USA, and it seemed like pretty much any pro wrestler from the country, even natural baby faces like Wrestling/{{Rikishi}}, Wrestling/RonKillings, Wrestling/AJStyles, Wrestling/SamoaJoe and Wrestling/MickieJames were shoehorned into it. There was also that time Wrestling/JeffJarrett tried to rename the Mega Championship belt the "AAA World Heavyweight Championship" even though AAA had no weight classes outside of mini estrellas because that sounded better in English. And Jarrett then insisted on being called "King Of Mexico".
266* IWA Puerto Rico had a bizarre example in "The British Militia", in that [[Wrestling/JonMoxley one member]] was actually an insane xenophile from the United States trying to convince Puerto Ricans the UK was a superior island. A straighter example was when Wrestling/JeffJarrett launched an invasion of the company using wrestlers from Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}[=-=]Wrestling/{{TNA}} in an effort to turn the company into a subsidiary farm league for his own Florida based enterprise.
267* The ProfessionalWrestling PowerTrio[==]Pseudo PowerStable known as the Real Americans were an interesting {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of the AllAmericanFace, being two Americans (and [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli one Swiss man]]) who cut promos and ring entrances that involved either boasting of America's superiority if abroad, or insulting American audiences for not being real patriots. Normally this would merely be an example of CulturalCringe or ThisLoserIsYou, as The [[Wrestling/KarlAnderson Real]] American [[Wrestling/JoeyRyan Heroes]] TagTeam it was [[SevenYearRule based on]] was, except for the fact the group also made apperances in the Puerto Rican WWC, curiously with the Mexican Wrestling/ElPatronAlberto and, [[ItMakesSenseInContext more understandably]], Puerto Rican Ray Gonzalez as unofficial members. While Dirty Dutch, had a Boricua hating reputation that preceded himself, he was [[EvenEvilHasStandards a little embarrassed]] by the length Patron went to prove Mexico's superiority to Boriquen and apologized to Gonzalez. To show his apology was sincere, Dutch sent Wrestling/JackSwagger to aid Gonzalez against Eddie and Wrestling/CarlitoColon after the feud with Patron blew over.[[/folder]]
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270%%* ''Creator/TheBrewingNetwork'': Their [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-the-brewing-network-invade-a-large-country video]] for their indiegogo page raising money for their trip to Australia to cover the ANHC. It also has fun with Australian NationalStereotypes.
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274* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'': America as seen in ''The Program'' would like to see itself as Beautiful, but is very much Boorish. It's basically modern culture TwentyMinutesInTheFuture, however the main difference is that the country has turned militaristic and nationalistic, and the characters are raised to acknowledge and embrace it.
275* ''Roleplay/NoPixel'': The Randy Wrangler song [[https://soundcloud.com/1013records/usa-is-number-one-randy-wrangler "USA is Number One"]] is a Boorish parody of post-9/11 patriotic songs. It talks about wanting to kick [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Jong-un]]'s ass for causing 9/11, all while throwing around random references to bald eagles, how communism is bad, and how capitalism is good.
276-->''9/11 was bad and it made me sad / We got bald eagles flyin' over this beautiful land / Man I wish them 9/11 planes would've landed...''
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280%%* Freddie Trumper, the {{Jerkass}} American chess champion in ''Theatre/{{Chess}}''.
281* When discussing the topic of English, Professor Henry Higgins had this to say.
282-->'''Higgins''': There even are places where English completely disappears. In America they haven't used it in years.
283** Granted, Higgins is also of the opinion that the English language is utterly butchered by most of the folks who speak it, including actual Englishmen.
284* In ''Madama Butterfly'', the American sailor Pinkerton, before his wedding to Butterfly, drinks to the day he'll marry a real American wife. Ironically, the opera was based on an American play, which was allegedly based on a true story.
285* The musical ''Made in Dagenham'' features Stetson wearing Mr. Tooley, the Ford executive who makes a dramatic entrance in the second act with the number "This is America", praising America and belittling Britsin with a chorus of soldiers and cheerleaders.
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289* ''WebAnimation/JamesLee'': In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Shxb5b8UKY Infected By Stupid]]", James briefly acts like a mid-pandemic Anti-Masker, espousing how basic hygienic precautions are a violation of his freedoms before going on a rant about how much he loves freedom more than anything (complete with the American flag in the background). It then shows that he's basically talking to one guy at a gas-station parking lot, having an emotional breakdown after losing his job.
290--> '''James Lee:''' If a terrorist told me to give up freedom or he would blow up the whole planet, I'd say "well shit, that's a no-brainer. Give me the fuckin' trigger. Click, click click." And if freedom was a man, I'd suck its dick. And I'm against gay marriage. That's just how much I love freedom.
291* The South Korean animated series ''Animation/{{Pucca}}'' has recurring villains [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas Lugie]] and Sloppy Sue. [[{{Anvilicious}} Everything about them]] is a distillation of how South Koreans saw Americans circa 2006.
292** Their first appearance has them 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!
293** They become recurring villains, and manage to be ''worse'' examples of The Boorish in their other appearance, polluting the village for no better reason than sheer disregard for its inhabitants and the environment.
294* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'''s Kingdom of Atlas is, per WordOfGod, intentionally written as a reflection of different dark aspects of America. One of the richest people in Atlas is a man whose near-monopoly on a resource people need to survive is built on poor work conditions (leading to the rise of [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters the White Fang]]) and even dirty dealings. Rich people laugh at the misfortune of a Kingdom when it was under attack by a combination of the White Fang, [[TheHeartless Grimm]], and even their own Kingdoms' faulty security. Add all that to how they treat Mantle (which has been criminally neglected to the point where Grimm could casually walk through a hole in the wall) and [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] and you got yourself a stew of America's worst qualities.
295* Implied in ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'''s "Governments and Politics": JP suggests that, since his audience is primarily American, explaining the American government would imply that he thinks Americans don't know how their own government works. He then immediately proceeds into explaining the American government.
296* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'':
297** Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, British expat living in Australia, strictly views everything American as Boorish. He devoted [[AuthorFilibuster a major portion]] of his reviews of ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare4'' and ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'' to [[{{Demonization}} Demonizing]] the United States and Americans.
298** His review of ''VideoGame/Killzone3'' also had plenty of vitriol levied at Americans. When it was pointed out to him that the developers of ''Killzone 3'' are ''Dutch'', he tried to justify his rancor by claiming that the game was designed to pander to Americans.
299** At one point, Croshaw considered "moving to that steaming shithole across the ocean" because he was sick of the Australian Media Board's aggressive censorship policies, which he then likened to traditional right-wing conservatism in the States.
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303* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': TheGovernment isn't that bad. Even TheMenInBlack. But ''[[http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-05-26 tourists]]''... Of course, the writer's [[WordOfGod commentary on the strip]] seems to imply that it was more of a jab at tourists in general than just American ones.
304* ''Webcomic/{{Polandball}}'': America is frequently depicted as fat, stupid, and wanting to "liberate" other countries. [[https://imgur.com/KkTLC0t Example.]]
305* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' subverts the Boorish flavor--specifically the ever-popular "The World According to Americans" map made by the Jigsaw Lounge -- with its own [[https://xkcd.com/850/ "The World According to Americans."]]
306* Meriken from ''Webcomic/AfganisuTan'' web series, [[{{Anvilicious}} very much the personification of America the Boorish]]. She's first shown on the White House lawn, [[ItsAllAboutMe singing that the whole world was made just for her]]. The 9/11 attacks, in which 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 mischievous cat. Meriken then gives Afghanis-tan a stern warning to take more responsibility for her house so this doesn't happen again.
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310* A distillation of how the British think Americans view the world can be found in the Jigsaw Lounge's "[[http://web.archive.org/web/20071009214038/http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/kungfu/world/legend.html The World According to Americans]]" map; a badly-drawn atlas full of GlobalIgnorance and [[TheThemeParkVersion Theme Park]] descriptions of what few countries or regions are named -- with one or two [[{{Demonization}} Demonizing]] jabs added for good measure.
311* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-50-ae-j SCP-50-AE]]-[[PlayedForLaughs J]] is a [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]] that shoots a bald eagle. A bald eagle which proceeds to go absolutely berserk at "anyone who displays Communist beliefs, Russian ancestry, or unpatriotic leanings."
312* ''Literature/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo'': America under the [[spoiler:Donald Rumsfeld]] administration bases every single policy on anarcho-capitalist/free market principles while doing ''anything'' to put down anything that even remotely whiffs of communism - including funding terrorism against Britain's Labour government. The end result is an ultra-right-wing, corporate-authoritarian/quasi-fascist America that [[EveryoneHasStandards even many right-wingers like Nixon, Reagan and Tom Clancy are flat horrified by]]. All forms of commercial regulation, social welfare and workers' rights are removed and [[spoiler:working wages are slashed in half all across the board]], leaving millions of working-class Americans in dreadful poverty and slave-like working conditions. All environmental standards are removed too, and corporate pollution and climate change are actively encouraged. [[spoiler:President Rumsfeld likes to remove political opponents by diagnosing them with bogus mental health claims and sending them off to {{Bedlam House}}s, and also maintains black-shirts who look for any books which criticise free market economics and burn them.]] Hollywood becomes a right-wing PropagandaMachine which glorifies slavery and vilifies FDR and the New Deal as communist plots. The U.S. military is sold off and falls under {{Private Military Contractor}}s who equip soldiers with woefully substandard equipment and even [[spoiler:execute their own wounded to avoid paying for medical expenses]].
313* ''Literature/AdAstraPerAspera'': A much more chaotic Reconstruction leads to the United States adopting a militant, autocratic mindset, leading to the steady erosion of democracy. After a series of wars of conquest in the 19th and 20th centuries, the U.S. is reformed into an absolute monarchy. When America is destroyed in a nuclear war in the 23rd century, its colonies in space unite into the Coalition of Western Republics, which can best be described as a mixture of OTL Fifties America and Nazi Germany.
314* ''Literature/NoW'': After being elected to the vice presidency then ascending to the presidency when a freak accident kills the previous president, [[spoiler:Rick Santorum]] immediately sets about trying to turn America into a "Christian nation". Media deemed "immoral" or "un-American" is banned, creationism is pushed in schools, homosexuals and non-Christians are persecuted, and anyone who speaks out against this is killed or disappeared.
315* The Boorish is parodied in an article on ''Website/TheOnion'' [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-china-to-overtake-us-as-worlds-biggest-assh,17277/ "China To Overtake U.S. As World's Biggest Asshole by 2020"]] suggesting that China's growing economic and military strength will make it the future equivalent to Boorish America.
316* The Internet meme "Almost Politically Correct Redneck" is a DoubleSubversion. As the title suggests, it starts with a steroytypcial redneck about to say something surpsingly PC... only for him to screw up by going back to the Boorish type. Such as supporting his sister's abortion, but disappointed that [[HillbillyIncest he won't be a father]].
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319[[folder:Web Videos]]
320* ''WebVideo/DetectiveHeartOfAmerica'' is an eagle statue who "gets a boner for freedom". According to Heart of America, said freedom includes putting your dick in anything you want.
321* Website/CollegeHumor portrays the average American citizen as someone who's in a relationship with [[DomesticAbuser an abusive boyfriend]], but who defends him when others bring up their concerns about him.
322* WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos has a terrifying America, where national monuments are more often than not made to contain [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], mass sacrifices are carried out at every national monument ''daily'', the most popular president in history is a HumanoidAbomination who sacrificed ''hundreds of thousands'' of people to the same monuments, every president for over a century has locked a person in the Lincoln Memorial [[ForTheEvulz just for fun]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the real George Washington was frozen in the Delaware]]. [[spoiler:Or fell into another realm and became a ''[[TranshumanAbomination godforsaken nightmare]]'']].
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326* The German-language version of ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' subtly shifts a single line of evil child star Darla Dimple's dialogue to suggest a more cutthroat and purely-for-the-money version of Hollywood:
327-->(original) '''Darla:''' Mister Pussycat, listen to me; you don't have to be good, but you had better be...Big and Loud!...\
328(German) '''Darla:''' Let me tell you my philosophy: you don't have to be good, just better than them!
329* 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).
330* ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' features a stereotypical American tourist (a [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texan]], to be exact) who teases the Royal Guards and complains how "these Brits don't know the first thing about football" while watching UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup.
331* Discussed briefly and subtly in ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman''. When Hocus Pocus is miming possible solutions to the fact that Karen is freezing to death, Frosty shoots down the idea of calling the President of the United States. At the time, [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon the President]] wasn't exactly the most popular among Americans, and he would become even less popular the year after this special was first broadcast.
332* An episode of WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain features The Brain threatening France with a weapon that turns what they love most, cheese, into what they hate most: [[HawaiianShirtedTourist Stupid American Tourists]].
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336%%No real life examples, please.
337* The whole meme of "[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/murica 'Murica]]" is based on America the Boorish.
338%%No real life examples, please.
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341!!Mixed Examples:
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343[[folder:Advertising]]
344* The Dydo company brings you [[https://web.archive.org/web/20101205082548/http://www.examiner.com/caffeine-in-national/how-japan-sees-american-coffee American Coffee]]. While the review there praises the flavor of the coffee as being rather good (a subversion of how the Japanese usually view American-made coffee), the actual packaging comes off as both a compliment and an insult:
345-->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 girls? Check! Cool classic car? Check! There is even the American flag with groovy 60's lettering!
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348[[folder:Art]]
349* Creator/NatalieBaxter's work is bright and colorful -- its very nature as soft-sculpture making it all inherently harmless symbolically speaking -- all of it was designed to ''criticize'' traditional American norms.
350** "[[https://www.nataliebaxter.com/warmgun Warm Guns]]" makes a mockery of America's infamous gun-culture.
351** The "[[http://www.nataliebaxter.com/squad Squad]]" series being rather goofy interpretations of the bald eagle.
352** "[[http://www.nataliebaxter.com/moneyquilts Money Quilts]]" on the double-standard boys and girls from affluent families are expected to live, men expected to take on the family business while women are not supposed to worry about such things and focus on their passions.
353** "[[http://www.nataliebaxter.com/altcaps Alt Caps]]" are a critique of internet culture and its dismissal of suffragettes and civil activists.
354** "[[http://www.nataliebaxter.com/bloatedflags Bloated Flags]]" are flamboyant mockups of the American flag, done as a critique of the "opulence over substance" process of the 2016 election.
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357[[folder:Comedy]]
358* Comedian Joe [=DeRosa=] has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jye4-1I0-Y&list=OLAK5uy_mn1tOoOybOr3eVdCbr45REdKeN6CqKJrA&index=9 a bit here]] that sits somewhere in the middle of Flavors #1 and #2, admitting that Americans can be boorish, but going up to a visiting American and throwing their own stereotypes in their face is ''extremely'' rude, and a really bad look for someone trying to claim the cultural high ground.
359* Another comedian talked about how he mostly enjoyed visiting Europe, but he couldn't stand locals who would immediately treat him like "America's Suggestion Box" whenever he'd introduce himself as an American, as though he was going to return home to the States and go "Okay, fellas, huddle in: First, ''here's'' what they think about our education system..."
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362[[folder:Comic Books]]
363* A lot of the comic book writers from across the pond, even those that have written Marvel and DC books for years, tend to love turning US-themed superheroes on their ear, basically making them even more jingoistic, or just plain jerkasses, for shock value or to go DarkerAndEdgier. A handful of heroes still hold out as the fair-minded Beautiful idealists, and ironically their scarcity makes ''them'' the more remarkable ones.
364* Creator/GarthEnnis has a recurring interest in America, often playing off The Beautiful (the national mythology of America and what the characters strive for) against The Boorish (what tends to be the reality in his strips) and the clashes thereof. Examples of this clash include Tommy Monaghan, Hitman, genuinely respecting and idolizing Superman; and the views of British/Irish immigrants and visitors to the States, all of them noticing and decrying the Boorish parts of America while ''simultaneously'' loving the place. Slanted more towards the Boorish are [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX Punisher]] and [[ComicBook/FuryMyWarGoneBy Nick Fury]], [[AtLeastIAdmitIt self-admitted]] sociopaths who [[TheFettered attempt to restrict]] their violence to those who deserve it, while surrounded by corrupt cops and generals who fake terrorist attacks to justify war.
365* One of the recurring themes of ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' comics is contrasting Cap's Beautiful idealism with what can often be a Boorish reality.
366** During the 1970s, Cap became disillusioned by the atmosphere of political corruption, unjust war and the general jaded mood of the country. For a time he abandoned the stars n' stripes for an all-black, millitaristic bodysuit, and called himself "Nomad: The Man Without a Country."
367** A later storyline in the 1980s (by the same writer, Mark Gruenwald, no less) saw Steve Rogers replaced as Captain America when the army and government decided he wasn't acting in their best interest. His replacement was John Walker, who was as honest and upright as Rogers but had a significantly shorter temper and much more conservative values. As the stresses of the job mounted on him, and especially after his parents were murdered by his enemies, Walker soaked up the essence of Boorish more and more, graduating from "misguided" to "an asshole" to "a lunatic." With help, he managed to revert to simply being [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a nuanced jerk]] as the ComicBook/USAgent.
368** In an interesting example (at least of reader reactions), during ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' reporter Sally Floyd accused Cap of being out of touch with modern America. While it was apparently supposed to be taken seriously, her examples of "modern America" involved ''Series/AmericanIdol'', Website/MySpace, and UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} so most (American) readers took it as an insulting Boorish stereotype and began to hate her.
369* [[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimate Captain America]] is quite a bit less idealistic--he's a mixture of the flavors. 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?"]]
370** For the record, that line was written by Mark Millar, a Scotsman. The fact that the [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys French as cowardly]] is a [[NewerThanTheyThink fairly recent]] stereotype that HumanPopsicle 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.)
371** The above quote is parodied in ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'', where [[ComicBook/{{Bloodstone}} Elsa Bloodstone]], fighting a Captain America-imitation while wearing a European Union shirt, refuses to "lay there and get used to being the victim." [[http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/media/2855/20100308-Elsaincolor.png.jpg "Victim? Do you think this letter on my chest stands for America?"]] (Boorish, obviously, but the entire book takes RefugeInAudacity and is PlayedForLaughs.)
372* Steve Darnall and Alex Ross' Uncle Sam OGN for DC was an attempt to reconcile the character's Beautiful conceit with a perceived Boorish 'reality'.
373* One of the Yakuza in ''7 Yakuza'' is Shugo Samon, a dyed-blond, fringe jacket/cowboy boot wearing gun nut obsessed with American culture, especially movies and comic books, despite never having even been to the U.S. personally. He represents the Westernization (and, obviously, Americanization specifically) of modern Japanese culture, for better or for worse. He's loud and brash, but a good friend and soldier.
374* In ''ComicBook/TexWiller'', the protagonist and [[TrueCompanions his pards]] are shown as an example of The Beautiful, if a rather violent one (and while Tex and Carson are whites, Tiger Jack is a Navajo and Kit Willer is the son Tex had from a Navajo woman), and often contrasted with all sort of criminals and jerks, with the ones Tex finds the worst being the ones (often authority figures) who see themselves as righteous while trying to exterminate an Indian tribe to steal their lands. A classic end scene for a story is a CharacterOfTheWeek looking at Tex and his pards leaving in admiration, thinking the world ''needs'' more people like them.
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378* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal introduces The Semi-United States of Aceria, a natural extension of what was originally Canada to take in less "Canadian" and more "American" NationalStereotypes.
379** Semi-United States so far introduced in the Discworld include Elevensee [[note]]Tenessee; you may pray for, err, Film/{{Deliverance}}[[/note]], New Pork [[note]] historically, New Ankh-Morpork, but abbreviated[[/note]]. Californicatia, and as a result of colonisation of an inhospitable swamp populated by alligators and biting insects, ''[[OnlyInFlorida The Land Of The Florid People]]''. More are to follow. As the Discworld's USA/Canada - canonically - is a FantasyCounterpartCulture of the USA as it was in the 1700's and 1800's, mention has also been made of a Wild Widdershins.
380* ''Fanfic/YuGiOhXross'' has a variation on the trope. While the main protagonist Yuga Senku is Japanese, he lived in America for 3 years, and the effects on his personality are plain to see. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Despite his rude, brash and narcissistic attitude, he's truly a nice person deep down, and legitimately tries to do the right thing by his friends and older brother]], [[ExpectationLowerer but feels crushed by the expectations placed on him.]]
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384* ''Anime/SummerWars'' brings in a mix; while Love Machine itself was released by the United States Department of Defense in a ''deliberate'' cyber attack on Oz for no other purpose than to test its capabilities, a lot of Americans pitch in their accounts at the climax to bring Love Machine down. Over all, it seems to depict the [[ArmiesAreEvil U.S. Military/government as the bad guys]][[note]]It's also worth noting that the movie throws a few jabs at the ''Japanese'' government as well, such as having an ''elderly woman with a land-line phone'' being more capable of organizing a national response to a large-scale cyberattack than they are, and depicting the token police officer character as being too stubborn and headstrong to listen to good advice until it is too late.[[/note]] but the citizens themselves as good people.
385* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville'', Belleville closely resembles [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. All of its citizens seen in the background are grotesquely obese. Even the Art/StatueOfLiberty 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.
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388[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
389* Orvil Newton from ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines'' (or ''How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes'') is a brash, reckless and very impulsive character who [[CombatPragmatist KO's a guy when his back is turned]] and [[WhatTheHellHero endangers the film's damsel]], but still is one of the most honest and likable people in the entire race. He even throws the first place (and the astronomical prize he needs to get home again) to save another pilot in distress. Still, he isn't any less of a national caricature [[EqualOpportunityOffender than anyone else in the film]].
390* ''Film/MoscowOnTheHudson'', starring Creator/RobinWilliams as a Russian immigrant, is a perfect example. The joys and freedoms of Vladimir's new country are mixed with poverty and crime, but the film ends on a hopeful note after Vladimir has established his new life.
391* In ''Film/TheMummy1999'', the American expedition who rival the British heroes start out as rude jerks, but they get fleshed out as the adventure goes on: you have Mr. Burns ([[NiceGuy an easygoing and helpful sort who invites Johnathan over for a friendly card game]]), Mr. Henderson ([[ProudWarriorRaceGuy a brave and hammy pistol-slinging]] BoisterousBruiser) and Mr. Daniels (a money-centric UnscrupulousHero). However [[TheHero Rick]] is implied to be American and there is no question, he is a good Eaglelander.
392* The protagonist of ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'' has aspects of both Beautiful and Boorish. He's eager and idealistic, but despite his encyclopedic knowledge of Chop Socky movies, he has no clue how to properly behave in another culture.
393* Amusingly, ''Persia'' as depicted in the ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' 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.
394* ''Film/TheHost2006'': The monster was created in South Korea by careless Americans, who use brutal tactics to try to cover it up and deal with it. However, a vacationing American soldier bravely attempts to fight off the monster in the beginning of the film. Apparently American officials are evil, but regular Americans are okay.
395* ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'' seems to start out as Beautiful with the character of Jefferson Smith being basically a walking case of TheAllAmericanBoy as a WideEyedIdealist, visiting the Lincoln Memorial and quoting the Constitution. However, once Smith gets to Washington, he has a rude awakening to the reality of political corruption and graft, and sees that even senators he's idolized have sold out to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive rich party bosses]]. The film still winds up being [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism mostly idealistic]], but not so naive: American ideals are fine, but the American government may not always live up to them.
396* CIA Agent Jack Wade (Joe Don Baker) from the Creator/PierceBrosnan ''Film/JamesBond'' films was loud and portly, and provided an absurdly casual contrast to Commander Bond's tuxedoed charm. However, he could be counted on to lend his government's support, either officially or unofficially, to Bond's missions.
397-->'''Wade:''' We have no interest in seeing World War III, unless we start it.
398* ''Film/ToraToraTora'': Most of the Japanese officers see America as Boorish, but Admiral Yamamoto sees it far more as Beautiful (or at the very least as a WorthyOpponent).
399* ''Film/{{Nixon}}'': Richard Nixon addresses the difference between the Beautiful and Boorish outlooks:
400-->'''Richard Nixon:''' ''[to a portrait of Kennedy]'' [[NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe When they look at you, they see what they want to be]]. [[TakeThatAudience When they look at me, they see what they are]].
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403[[folder:Literature]]
404* Many popular British authors, especially pre-1965 or so (among them Creator/PGWodehouse, Creator/AgathaChristie, Creator/ArthurConanDoyle and Creator/DickFrancis) have real trouble rendering American characters accurately, providing a revealing look at common stereotypes of the era. The "typical American" of these novels is described as taking things "more free and easy," thus depicted as speaking in a sort of stylized slang used by American mafiosos -- which is nevertheless composed according to distinctly British grammar rules. The result can be a little jarring to say the least, especially if the character actually ''is'' a gangster, or supposed to be similarly menacing. They tended to lampshade and/or justify this by saying that the American character was deliberately trying to fit in and/or be more comprehensible, [[ButNotTooForeign or had been living in England for some time]], etc.
405* As shows ''An American'', Creator/RudyardKipling saw America as both a mix of the Beautiful and the Boorish, possessing worst sides of the same traits. He defined this 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.
406* Empires of Trust describes and compares and likens early to late Republican and Imperial Roman to American psychology of Empire building through historic examples.
407* ''Literature/IslandInTheSeaOfTime'': The Bronze Age characters refer to the time-displaced Americans as "the Eagle People". The Beautiful is represented by the Republic, the Boorish by Walker's slave-based empire.
408* Creator/EphraimKishon wrote on America, among other things, that Americans believe:
409** You can get steaks only in America
410** An American family without an American boy and an American girl at the respective age of nine and seven years isn't a real American family
411** You can learn everything from ''...For Dummies'' books, even "How to become president of the USA: In 10 easy steps".
412** [[UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck Bismarck]] is a herring, Frankfurt a sausage factory and [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte Napoleon]] one of the greatest brandies in world history.
413* An internal example by American Chuck Thompson, ''Better Off Witout 'Em'', while portraying the rest of America as a mixed bag treats the South as an unadulterated example of The Boorish.
414* Creator/JulesVerne's Eagleland tends to be mixed-flavor:
415** ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon'': In a glorious democratic melting pot of ethnic harmony and scientific progress, ridiculously trigger-happy Americans with names like [[WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames Impey Barbicane]] decide to use the Moon as their next target! HilarityEnsues.
416** ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'': American trains are ''amazing''! American train passengers, not so much. Adventure ensues.
417** ''Literature/RoburTheConqueror'': High-powered and boorish American inventors decide ballooning is SeriousBusiness, and build a CoolAirship to prove it ... but a non-American MadScientist with a much better aircraft design has other ideas. Kidnapping ensues!
418** ''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland'': Five Union Americans escape from a Confederate prison and use their wits and knowledge to survive and even rebuild a functional society on their island, intending for it to be a new state. Though Nab is black, and is automatically treated as a servant (which he chooses to be, being a freed slave), though this falls into FairForItsDay.
419* In ''The Piccadilly Murder'' by Anthony Berkeley, Harold J. Benson "presented a perfect replica of the popular English idea of the travelling American" -- ie, The Boorish. He really is American, but is obviously trying far too hard to convince everyone of the fact.
420* Despite Creator/TerryPratchett's [[WordOfGod stated decree]] that no part of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' should resemble North America, this inevitably crept in over the life of the series. the Tezuman Empire is an {{Expy}} of pre-Conquest Mexico; the existence of a people not unlike Red Indians was revealed in ''Literature/ReaperMan''; ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'' saw a Louisiana-bayou place with a Cajun vibe, complete with riverboats and gamblers in white suits with those odd string ties... The posthumously published ''Complete Discworld Atlas'' [[note]] completed by Terry's collaborators but based on Pratchett's original notes[[/note]] gave into this reality. A large and previously undescribed tranche of land was christened "The Great Outdoors", and given a vibe which appears to be the Frontier USA of the nineteenth century with a lot of Canada slipping in by default. It has majestic mountains and rivers, fur-traders, refugees from wars and religious persecution fleeing here to make a new life, salt-flats around a salt lake populated by [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} members of a strict and heretical Omnian sect]]...
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424[[folder:Music]]
425* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R5A0pg4oN8 America, Fuck Yeah!]]", which was used on ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', comes off as this. Lyrics-wise starts off extolling America's Beautiful virtues until the ridiculous lines of the latter stanzas veer into Boorish territory.
426* The CountryMusic musician Granger Smith created the character of Earl Dibbles, Jr. as an AffectionateParody of both sides of this trope, with songs like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx5A6WMFzig "The Country Boy Song"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb1b0tAR-3s "Merica"]].
427* "North American Scum" by Music/LCDSoundsystem analyzes the criticism America usually gets, and admits that while a lot of it is definitely warranted, it's still a great country that has grown a lot since its inception.
428* New York-based {{chiptune}} [[PowerPop power]] [[PunkRock punk]] band Music/{{Anamanaguchi}} {{invoked|Trope}} this for their album ''[USA]'', [[https://www.papermag.com/anamanaguchi-usa-2640820875.html which was made as something of a response to a self-imposed challenge]]: what would their music sound like without their extremely prominent Japanese influences? While the (largely instrumental) album doesn't directly address American concepts, the intent was to explore the band's identity as themselves, including their status as [[OccidentalOtaku Americans who love and appropriate Japanese culture in their art]]. The sound is considerably [[DarkerAndEdgier more cinematic and somewhat wistful in tone]] than their previous works, so make of that what you will.
429* Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwQAyskqG0g "America sucks less"]] by ''Website/CollegeHumor'', a countrysong about how America sucks in a lot of ways, but when you compare it to a lot of other countries, it's pretty good. Definitely leans more towards the Boorish, though, since the singer leans a lot on stereotypes of other countries to prove how bad they are.
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432[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
433* While technically part of the United States itself, a lot of Puerto Ricans really don't look at themselves that way, translating to Boorish Eaglelanders being fairly common in their promotions, such as WWC, usually competing with the ever popular ForeignWrestlingHeel for the spot of most hated wrestler. A prime example being Dennis Rivera of the Puerto Rico Nationalist Party, which seeks independence from the USA, being a top baby {{face}} in WWL. The "malo Americano" practice predates him but Sucio Dutch Mantel really cemented it, as his [[TheGimmick gimmick]] consisted almost entirely of telling Puerto Ricans how terrible their island and its culture was, [[ShownTheirWork often using insults typical of Puerto Ricans who in fact left the island]]. Oh and Ox Baker, an out an out, murderer who bragged about getting away with it. Hard to get worse than that. On the other hand, many wrestlers who usually worked under card in 50 states and spent a brief time in Puerto Rico antagonizing the locals [[DracoInLeatherPants instead became beloved]] and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff fondly spoken of]] years after they left, such as Wrestling/BruiserBrody, Wrestling/{{Abyss}}, BJ Whitmer or Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam. There are even a few, such as Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}}, Wrestling/JeffHardy and Wrestling/{{Sting}}, booked as Beautiful Eaglelanders upon debut.
434* WWC even had a "Guapa Americana" vs "Mala Americana" feud; Wrestling/MickieJames vs [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]]
435* Wrestlers from the USA tend to go through hazing in REINA, sometimes subtley, sometime overtly such as the case of Luscious Latasha's brief runs. The wrestlers do tend to be a bit pompous, so taking them down a peg is understandable, but their mistreatment usually continues [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain long after the fact]] and ends up turning them [[HeelFaceTurn into fan favorites]], such as when Mia Yim got a loving send off when her contract expired.[[/folder]]
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437[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
438* ''TabletopGame/NewHorizon'' has Xanadu, a mostly Beautiful stereotype that happens to be quite racist. Of course, this is a faction on an alien colony in the future instead of America proper but...
439* Andoran from the ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' RPG is an idealized colonial-era FantasyCounterpartCulture example that leans towards Beautiful. They're NeutralGood and everyone acknowledges that their hearts are in the right place, but they're also seen as pushy and imperialistic, and their behavior often falls short of their ideals.
440* The ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' America is a mixed flavour version. The American Army on Mars is busy empire building and in a cold war with the State Department. However, there's also the Rocket Rangers, possibly the most inclusive and idealistic organisation in the solar system, that has frequently gone against government policy to do the right thing.
441* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'' has two nations that project an American-style 'defenders of freedom and liberty' image to the rest of the Inner Sphere: The Federated Suns and the Taurian Concordat. The former is an imperialist superpower that frequently 'liberates' worlds from the neighbouring Capellan Confederation and is ruled by a First Prince, albeit with a vestigial constitution that guarantees some rights for its citizens. The Concordat, meanwhile, is a xenophobic and isolated nation-under-siege who neighbours the aforementioned Suns; while its citizens do indeed enjoy the most iron-clad constitutional and legal protections of them all (including freedom of the press, travel, association and religion), the Concordat's general irrelevance in the political landscape means they're looked upon as little more than a curiosity prone to CulturalPosturing by outsiders.
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445* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'', being based on the Declaration of Independence during the American revolution, deliberately chooses a de-mythologized picture of the Continental Congress in all its messy glory. They ultimately choose to break away from the British Empire and chart their own destinies for admirable reasons... and in the process, compromise on important issues like the inherent hypocrisy of preaching freedom while maintaining the institution of slavery.
446* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' has the song "America", which contrasts the two types. The women showcase the Beautiful, pointing out the freedom and economic opportunities America offers, whereas the men are solidly in the Boorish camp, pointing out the poor housing in the slums, casual racism holding them back and how they are forced by circumstances to either become victims or perpetrators of crime. The song's lyrics even out to pro-American, but is contrasted with its very blatantly Latin-inspired sound.
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450* ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'':
451** Brother/Sister America are mostly Boorish caricatures, but done in a good-natured enough way that it can be classified as a mix. Brother America tries ''very hard'' to be The Beautiful, but he is too impulsive and oblivious to actually pull it off. Their Beautiful tendencies are shown [[http://satwcomic.com/a-trip-into-american-culture when the Scandinavians visit America]], although they're still kind of jerks in a sort of teenagerish way.
452** [[http://satwcomic.com/amurika This comic]] takes the trope head-on: basically, America is that immature fratboy who you quickly find out is really friendly and good-hearted but is also a very typical fratboy.
453** What's more, both siblings actually embody the stereotypes from ''both'' of America's political sectors. Brother America is a dedicated right-winger who opposes gun control, gay rights, and immigration while being religious, and Sister America is a pastiche of Hollywood liberalism and vanity, with her fake boobs, [[TheDitz airhead tendencies,]] and rabid support of gay rights to the extent that she ships Denmark and Norway. The author and most of the comic's fanbase have a lot more in common with Sister America socially and politically, but that hasn't stopped them from satirizing the American left just like the American right.
454* Uncle Sam from ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' probably counts simply because, while he is portrayed as being a clueless egomaniac with borderline tyrannical habits, he is also generally portrayed as ''wanting'' to do the right thing and often just completely misunderstanding what that is and does seem to genuinely love his wife. Of course, he's mostly abandoned those aspects since he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4282 cheated on his wife inside a computer]] (best not to question how this happened).
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458* Wheeler, the sole American member of the team in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', is the "mixed" variation. He perpetually holds the StrawmanBall, is the most prone to fighting, and incorrigibly hits on most attractive women in the victinity (especially Linka). He's also deeply good-natured ([[TheHeart Ma-Ti]] even praises the amount of heart he has in one episode) and fiercely protective.
459* Both the Beautiful and Boorish perceptions of America get parodied in the Finnish satirical animation ''WesternAnimation/{{Pasila}}''. The conversation paraphrased:
460-->'''Helga:''' Americans are great people!\
461'''Pöysti:''' Americans are idiots.\
462'''Routalempi:''' Yeah, that's so true.\
463'''Pöysti:''' Now, don't generalise, there are lots of smart people there too. ''[gets a flat stare from everybody]'' What?!
464* ''WesternAnimation/LibertysKids'' is quite literally America the Beautiful: The Animated Series, however it still does shine a light on the Boorish side on occasion when it comes to slavery. And the show's usage of the trope is mainly why it has been forced into NoExportForYou in a lot of countries.
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