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For added atmosphere, listen to this while reading. When viewed from the outside, the United States of America comes in different flavors. As with most stereotypes, there is a certain amount of Truth in Television in both of them. America the Beautiful A 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 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 The American Dream. Sometimes based on American media during The '50s and The Silver Age of Comic Books, which portrayed the United States of America as a homey, traditional world of heroes built upon (nuclear) family values, love, and old-fashioned simple mindsets. This flavor is, of course, no "truer" than any other, and especially not when it comes to individual US citizens. 'Murica the Boorish A Wretched Hive full of war-mongering, ignorant Jerkasses whose prosperity, when it exists, is the product of their infinite greed. Americans come into your country either as tourists or invaders, always acting like they own the place and letting you know how it "should be" run. Whenever they talk, it will always be as obnoxiously loud and as offensive as possible, claiming it's "freedom of speech." In the rural areas of the Deep South and The Wild West, you'll find disgustingly obese, Red-baiting, Bible-thumping, gun-toting, heteronormative redneck Moral Guardians who subsist on a diet of synthetic fast food and TV dinners, while in the cities and everywhere else, you'll find crime-ridden ghettoes full of street gangs and cartels desperate to get you addicted to their wares, vapid rich bitches either hailing from or trying to emulate Hollywood California, and Darwinist, Scrooge-like corporate profiteers who view poor people as a plague upon humanity (not that the poor are any better). Woe betide you if you're a minority, immigrant (though why on Earth you'd ever want to move there is anyone's guess), or both; at best you'll be assimilated into the culture and become one of the above, and at worst you'll be treated as utter vermin by the citizens, the law enforcement, the government itself, and even other immigrants/minorities. And if you're a foreign nation, you'd better hope that your country doesn't have some sort of resource or export the Americans want or need, whether it be gold, oil, or anime; because the minute that they sense any threat to their supply, they'll invade you (if you're lucky) or send money and arms to whoever they want in power (if you're not), almost always some godawful kleptocrat who is submissive to their interests. And last but not least, they suck at global geography. The Bronze Age of Comic Books and especially The Dark Age of Comic Books frequently began to reflect this flavor, which once again is no "truer" than any other, and especially not when it comes to individual US citizens. Mixed Flavor Other works just decide to split the difference, treating America as essentially the Boisterous Bruiser Idiot Hero of nations: rude, crude, clueless, obnoxious, and vaguely psychotic, but still good-natured beneath it all. A famous saying, often misattributed to Winston Churchill, sums up this portrayal well: "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing... after they've first tried everything else." Since this trope is about outsiders looking at the USA, you can expect most of the information here to be incredibly stereotyped and (potentially) culturally offensive to actual Americans. 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 Cultural Cringe, My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting, or Boomerang Bigot; likewise, an American indulging in The Beautiful is not this trope either, and would better fit into Creator Provincialism, Patriotic Fervor, or My Country, Right or Wrong. 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 Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales; America's strong tradition of self-satire means they are very likely to enjoy foreign depictions, even boorish ones. The memetic term 'Murica is related to these interpretations: that America is either a Land of Heroes, or a Wretched Hive. For the symbolism this trope is named after, see American Eagle (though the actual Trope Namer is EarthBound). |
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Watchmen: 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 Captain Patriotic, 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. 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. |
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Implied in Terrible Writing Advice'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. | |
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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 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. | |
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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. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): In the Golden and Silver Ages, Wonder Woman reflected the shining positives of the U.S. as an immigrant to the country. After meeting Col. Steve Trevor, 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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Soviet silent film Miss Mend is about an American anti-Bolshevik terrorist organization plotting to unleash chemical and biological warfare in Russia. | |
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The protagonist of The Forbidden Kingdom 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. | |
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Cla$$war, 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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Polandball: America is frequently depicted as fat, stupid, and wanting to "liberate" other countries. Example. | |
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The American president in Love Actually fits neatly into the second category, a combination of Bill Clinton (a sleazy womanizer) and George W. Bush (bullying behavior and accent). When the UK's prime minister (played by Hugh Grant, of course) tells him off, it is portrayed as his defining moment as a leader. | |
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In The Mummy (1999), 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 (an easygoing and helpful sort who invites Johnathan over for a friendly card game), Mr. Henderson (a brave and hammy pistol-slinging Boisterous Bruiser) and Mr. Daniels (a money-centric Unscrupulous Hero). However Rick is implied to be American and there is no question, he is a good Eaglelander. | |
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In Bruges: Ray comes across three morbidly obese American tourists whom he (rather rudely) advises not to climb the Belfry Tower. Then there is the cocky American-accented couple whom Ray knocks out (who turn out to be Canadian), and the midget actor: |
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Summer Wars 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 U.S. Military/government as the bad guysnote 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. but the citizens themselves as good people. | |
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RWBY's Kingdom of Atlas is, per Word of God, 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 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, 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 Faunus and you got yourself a stew of America's worst qualities. | |
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Meriken from Afganisu-tan web series, very much the personification of America the Boorish. She's first shown on the White House lawn, 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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1776, 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. | |
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Wheeler, the sole American member of the team in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, is the "mixed" variation. He perpetually holds the Strawman Ball, is the most prone to fighting, and incorrigibly hits on most attractive women in the victinity (especially Linka). He's also deeply good-natured (Ma-Ti even praises the amount of heart he has in one episode) and fiercely protective. | |
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The German-language version of Cats Don't Dance 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: | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-50-AE-J is a 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." | |
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The Discworld of A.A. Pessimal introduces The Semi-United States of Aceria, a natural extension of what was originally Canada to take in less "Canadian" and more "American" National Stereotypes. Semi-United States so far introduced in the Discworld include Elevensee note Tenessee; you may pray for, err, Deliverance, New Pork note historically, New Ankh-Morpork, but abbreviated. Californicatia, and as a result of colonisation of an inhospitable swamp populated by alligators and biting insects, The Land Of The Florid People. More are to follow. As the Discworld's USA/Canada - canonically - is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the USA as it was in the 1700's and 1800's, mention has also been made of a Wild Widdershins. |
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The above quote is parodied in Nextwave, where Elsa Bloodstone, fighting a Captain America-imitation while wearing a European Union shirt, refuses to "lay there and get used to being the victim." "Victim? Do you think this letter on my chest stands for America?"◊ (Boorish, obviously, but the entire book takes Refuge in Audacity and is Played for Laughs.) | |
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Semi-United States so far introduced in the Discworld include Elevensee note Tenessee; you may pray for, err, Deliverance, New Pork note historically, New Ankh-Morpork, but abbreviated. Californicatia, and as a result of colonisation of an inhospitable swamp populated by alligators and biting insects, The Land Of The Florid People. More are to follow. As the Discworld's USA/Canada - canonically - is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the USA as it was in the 1700's and 1800's, mention has also been made of a Wild Widdershins. | |
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Tora! Tora! Tora!: 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 Worthy Opponent). | |
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John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman's podcast The Bugle has "the American" (played by Rory Albanese, whom Oliver works with on The Daily Show), 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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An episode of Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain features The Brain threatening France with a weapon that turns what they love most, cheese, into what they hate most: Stupid American Tourists. | |
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Scandinavia and the World: 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 when the Scandinavians visit America, although they're still kind of jerks in a sort of teenagerish way. 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. 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, 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. |
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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 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. | |
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The theme song to 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. | |
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In Untold Tales Of Spiderman #-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. | |
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Uncle Sam from 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 cheated on his wife inside a computer (best not to question how this happened). | |
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Almost half of AAA's La Legion Extranjera, foreign thugs used by 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 Rikishi, Ron Killings, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe and Mickie James were shoehorned into it. There was also that time Jeff Jarrett 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". | |
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"Our Country" by John Mellencamp 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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'Rocky portrays America as exclusively Boorish, but it is also made abundantly clear that this has more to do with Rocky being an Unreliable Narrator with a Hair-Trigger Temper and a bee up his arse about his American ex-girlfriend than with anything about America. | |
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xkcd subverts the Boorish flavor—specifically the ever-popular "The World According to Americans" map made by the Jigsaw Lounge — with its own "The World According to Americans." | |
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Mars Attacks!: As a parody of 1950's sci-fi B-Movie schlock, America Saves the Day... but America is a World of Jerkass except for a handful of characters, and 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 War Hawk who keeps exalting the greatness of America's military as his Defiant to the End Sedgwick Speech. | |
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In Der Schwarm, 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 No Indoor Voice. | |
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Robur the Conqueror: High-powered and boorish American inventors decide ballooning is Serious Business, and build a Cool Airship to prove it ... but a non-American Mad Scientist with a much better aircraft design has other ideas. Kidnapping ensues! | |
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The Marvel supervillain Nuke, a psychotic Super-Soldier who is obsessed with killing "enemies of America". He's basically a very twisted version of Captain America. | |
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Andoran from the Pathfinder RPG is an idealized colonial-era Fantasy Counterpart Culture example that leans towards Beautiful. They're Neutral Good 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. | |
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In The Triplets of Belleville, Belleville closely resembles New York City. All of its citizens seen in the background are grotesquely obese. Even the Statue of Liberty 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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Episode 5 of Missing Reel, "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 Detroit's dominance of the auto industry. | |
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Orvil Newton from Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes) is a brash, reckless and very impulsive character who KO's a guy when his back is turned and 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 than anyone else in the film. | |
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The Rocket Age 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. | |
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New Horizon 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... | |
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WWC even had a "Guapa Americana" vs "Mala Americana" feud; Mickie James vs ODB | |
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington seems to start out as Beautiful with the character of Jefferson Smith being basically a walking case of The All-American Boy as a Wide-Eyed Idealist, 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 rich party bosses. The film still winds up being mostly idealistic, but not so naive: American ideals are fine, but the American government may not always live up to them. | |
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Ad Astra Per Aspera: 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. | |
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Detective Heart of America 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. | |
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A montage in Godzilla: Final Wars 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 Badass Normal (emphasis on the "badass") and a self-important Nietzsche Wannabe, neither of whom, despite living in Tokyo, 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. | |
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Moscow on the Hudson, starring Robin Williams 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. | |
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Iron Sky: The American President is a Sarah Palin parody. | |
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The Boorish is parodied in an article on The Onion "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. | |
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Both the Beautiful and Boorish perceptions of America get parodied in the Finnish satirical animation Pasila. The conversation paraphrased: | |
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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 Cultural Posturing by outsiders. | |
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Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises is set within America. Everything from its medical establishment to it's education system is mercilessly lampooned. | |
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CollegeHumor portrays the average American citizen as someone who's in a relationship with an abusive boyfriend, but who defends him when others bring up their concerns about him. | |
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The Professional Wrestling Power Trio\Pseudo Power Stable known as the Real Americans were an interesting inversion of the All-American Face, being two Americans (and 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 Cultural Cringe or This Loser Is You, as The Real American Heroes Tag Team it was based on was, except for the fact the group also made apperances in the Puerto Rican WWC, curiously with the Mexican El Patron Alberto and, more understandably, Puerto Rican Ray Gonzalez as unofficial members. While Dirty Dutch, had a Boricua hating reputation that preceded himself, he was 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 Jack Swagger to aid Gonzalez against Eddie and Carlito Colón after the feud with Patron blew over. | |
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72: America under the 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 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 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. President Rumsfeld likes to remove political opponents by diagnosing them with bogus mental health claims and sending them off to Bedlam Houses, and also maintains black-shirts who look for any books which criticise free market economics and burn them. Hollywood becomes a right-wing Propaganda Machine 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 Contractors who equip soldiers with woefully substandard equipment and even execute their own wounded to avoid paying for medical expenses. | |
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Truth and Consequences: 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. | |
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THE MONUMENT MYTHOS has a terrifying America, where national monuments are more often than not made to contain Eldritch Abominations, mass sacrifices are carried out at every national monument daily, the most popular president in history is a Humanoid Abomination 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 just for fun, and the real George Washington was frozen in the Delaware. Or fell into another realm and became a godforsaken nightmare. | |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy, a Biopic of George M. Cohan starring James Cagney, had just started production when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Warner Bros. decided to make the most patriotic, Beautiful Eagleland movie ever made. It works. | |
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Umrika: In-Universe, 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. | |
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Island in the Sea of Time: 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. | |
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James Lee: In "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. | |
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In Quantum of Solace the Americans are portrayed as being generally sleazy and amoral, with the exception of Felix Leiter. | |
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The Host (2006): 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. | |
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In an interesting example (at least of reader reactions), during Civil War 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 American Idol, MySpace, and NASCAR so most (American) readers took it as an insulting Boorish stereotype and began to hate her. | |
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Citizens of the U.S. are traditionally treated very well in Pro Wrestling ZERO1, such as their "friendship" series with Action Zone Wrestling in Hawaii and the Gorgeous Gaijin run of Leonardo Spanky. Low Ki tried antagonizing the audience but they still ended up falling in love with him, ditto AJ Styles. 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 American Wrestling Association. Even legendary heels like Sherri Martel tend to be treated with reverence, which is generally recepriocated once they eventually give in. | |
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Liberty's Kids 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 No Export for You in a lot of countries. | |
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In Legacy of the Force, Corellia is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture 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 Legacy of the Force, the galactic government the Corellians are so distrustful of winds up being even worse. | |
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The Mysterious Island: 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 Fair for Its Day. | |
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The Danger Mouse 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 rescue DM and Penfold at the last minute. | |
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NoPixel: The Randy Wrangler song "USA is Number One" is a Boorish parody of post-9/11 patriotic songs. It talks about wanting to kick 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. | |
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From the Earth to the Moon: In a glorious democratic melting pot of ethnic harmony and scientific progress, ridiculously trigger-happy Americans with names like Impey Barbicane decide to use the Moon as their next target! Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Discussed briefly and subtly in Frosty the Snowman. 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, 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. | |
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IWA Puerto Rico had a bizarre example in "The British Militia", in that 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 Jeff Jarrett launched an invasion of the company using wrestlers from N-TNA in an effort to turn the company into a subsidiary farm league for his own Florida based enterprise. | |
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Nixon: Richard Nixon addresses the difference between the Beautiful and Boorish outlooks: | |
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"Buy American" by Joywave (who are themselves from Rochester, U.S.A.) is a satirical hot take on the nation's wasteful consumer culture. | |
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El Goonish Shive: The Government isn't that bad. Even The Men in Black. But tourists... Of course, the writer's commentary on the strip seems to imply that it was more of a jab at tourists in general than just American ones. | |
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Without Seeing The Dawn, set at the beginning of World War II 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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In The Laundry Files, 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 Mind Control and Demonic Possession 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 Roman von Ungern-Sternberg 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. 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. |
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Basically the entire career of John Philip Sousa was built on writing patriotic marches that are either odes to or evocative of this trope. One of them, "Stars and Stripes Forever", is basically the Leitmotif of this type of Eagleland. | |
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First Blood is an American film set in Hope, a seedy hick town in Washington State where the local 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). Carnage ensues. The film is an anti-war psychological thriller that deals with the dehumanisation and mistreatment of The Vietnam Vet and depicts America in quite a negative light, unlike the subsequent Actionized Sequels that present America's role in the world much more optimistically. | |
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In The Sheep Look Up, 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; | |
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The Space Captain Smith series contains two Fantasy Counterpart Cultures 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 (fantastic and mundane), misogynistic fascist state with a pseudo-Christian death cult as the state religion. | |
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Survival of the Fittest: America as seen in The Program would like to see itself as Beautiful, but is very much Boorish. It's basically modern culture 20 Minutes in the Future, however the main difference is that the country has turned militaristic and nationalistic, and the characters are raised to acknowledge and embrace it. | |
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In Geostorm the Big Bad of the film, Vice-President Dekom, is a one-man showcase of "America the Vile" to the "America the Good" of everybody else in the cast, manipulating the "Dutch Boy" Weather-Control Machine and turning it into a Kill Sat that devastates much of the world with the explicit goal of eliminating all of America's enemies. | |
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Superman, who was created by the children of Jewish immigrants and is himself a refugee fills much the same role for the DC Universe. "He fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way." | |
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Flushed Away features a stereotypical American tourist (a Texan, to be exact) who teases the Royal Guards and complains how "these Brits don't know the first thing about football" while watching The World Cup. | |
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In Tex Willer, the protagonist and 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 Character Of The Week looking at Tex and his pards leaving in admiration, thinking the world needs more people like them. | |
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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) "Surrender? Do you think this A on my forehead stands for France?"◊ For the record, that line was written by Mark Millar, a Scotsman. The fact that the French as cowardly is a fairly recent stereotype that Human Popsicle 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.) The above quote is parodied in Nextwave, where Elsa Bloodstone, fighting a Captain America-imitation while wearing a European Union shirt, refuses to "lay there and get used to being the victim." "Victim? Do you think this letter on my chest stands for America?"◊ (Boorish, obviously, but the entire book takes Refuge in Audacity and is Played for Laughs.) |
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Donald Curtis from Porco Rosso is an exceptional #2 example. "Make way for the American!" He plans to be a Hollywood actor and later president. Sound familiar? | |
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American Idiot...sort of. While the Title Track 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. | |
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The South Korean animated series Pucca has recurring villains Texas Lugie and Sloppy Sue. Everything about them is a distillation of how South Koreans saw Americans circa 2006. 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! 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. |
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Harley Race serves on the 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. | |
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Being a Russian nationalistic, Orthodox Christian propaganda film, Children VS Wizards depicts the American military as ugly and evil bastards in cahoots with the magicians at 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. | |
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"(Let's Play) U.S.A." by Peter Schilling (best known for "Major Tom") is a nasty version of The Boorish with a cheery pop beat. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Xross 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. 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, but feels crushed by the expectations placed on him. | |
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The Big Guy from Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot 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. | |
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Zero Punctuation: Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, British expat living in Australia, strictly views everything American as Boorish. He devoted a major portion of his reviews of Modern Warfare 4 and Medal of Honor: Airborne to Demonizing the United States and Americans. His review of Killzone 3 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. 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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The Ugly American is about American foreign aid workers struggling to win hearts and minds for the USA while being sabotaged by a variety of Boorish Eaglelanders. | |
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A nice prime example of Boorish from Conan Doyle, in two of his Sherlock Holmes novels, no less. 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 two or three characters who're steadily developed as they run through their exploits. As for everyone else, 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. "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. |
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No W: After being elected to the vice presidency then ascending to the presidency when a freak accident kills the previous president, 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. | |
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Black Hawk Down: The Dragon sarcastically presents a Beautiful outlook of Americans: they don't drink, don't smoke, and live long, healthy, uninteresting lives. And behind the scenes, the U.S. military gave the film technical support in exchange for changing the name of a soldier who was later convicted of raping his daughter. | |
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Around the World in Eighty Days: American trains are amazing! American train passengers, not so much. Adventure ensues. | |
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The French graphic novel Weapons of Mass Diplomacy 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. | |
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West Side Story 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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Amusingly, Persia as depicted in the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 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. | |
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The song "Amerika" by the German band 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 "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 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. Ironically much like "America, Fuck Yeah!", "Amerika" became a case of Insult Backfire over time, with quite a few Americans (despite knowing the song's intended purpose) 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 Memetic Badass image. |
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One of the recurring themes of Captain America comics is contrasting Cap's Beautiful idealism with what can often be a Boorish reality. 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." 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 a nuanced jerk as the U.S. Agent. In an interesting example (at least of reader reactions), during Civil War 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 American Idol, MySpace, and NASCAR so most (American) readers took it as an insulting Boorish stereotype and began to hate her. |
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