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Eagleland Osmosis
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A special case of Reality Is Unrealistic, Eagleland Osmosis occurs when people outside the United States consume American pop culture and start to believe that aspects of their own society work like they do in these imported films and television shows. The most common forms of this concerns the legal system, with people expecting to be read a Miranda warning when they are read their rights upon arrest, expecting that police should have a search warrant in cases where they do not need one under local law, or calling a serious crime a "felony". Another one is expecting 9-1-1 to be the number for emergency services, even when the actual number is usually displayed prominently on phonebooks and phone booths. note Although many places will make it so that dialing 9-1-1 will redirect you to emergency services. This isn't new, or indeed limited to the United States—it's a side effect of World Power status. Elements of a major power's culture and language bleed into the popular culture of other countries. The Japanese adoption of Western customs like Christmas, Valentine's Day or wedding ceremonies is a good example. In older tales, an astute reader will find Limey Osmosis, Frenchie Osmosis, and even Kraut Osmosis. Granted, modern mass media and the Internet certainly accelerate the effect. Compare with Hollywood Provincialism, where Southern California serves the same function to the US as a whole as the US does for the world in this trope, and compare Creator's Culture Carryover, which is when creators assume that things work elsewhere the same way they do in their home country. |
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion: A random young Italian communist has been arrested by the inspector's State Sec police. | |
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Used in Home and Away when Kirsty Sutherland suggests getting the coastguard to bring her grandfather back after he takes his boat out when there's a storm on the way. | |
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So much so that Rescue 911 included a regular segment with host William Shatner reminding viewers in Australia of the correct number, which is 000. The same thing happened for the UK showings, with Shatner giving the emergency number 999. And, in Brazil, his dubbing gave the partially-correct number 190 (which is exclusively a police number). |
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Invoked in-universe in New Zealand film Hunt for the Wilderpeople, child protective services officer Paula Hall begins to read Hec and Ricky their Miranda Rights, until her rather dimwitted police officer second-in-command reminds her that not only does she have no legal ability to arrest people, but that cops in New Zealand don't use the Miranda Rights, stating that only cops only say that in American movies. | |
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In the Corner Gas episode "Hair Comes the Judge," at Wanda's first "case" a defendant addresses Wanda as "Your Honor" and asks to approach the bench. Wanda, though flattered that Lacey would call her "Your Honour," has to inform her, "But in Canada it's 'My Lord.'" Although even this is somewhat wrong — "My Lord" (or "My Lady") isn't used universally, only in some superior/appeal courts (where appeals processes, jury trials, and the most severe crimes are tried). An ordinary provincial court (where at least 95% of crimes are tried) still retains "Your Honour". But most Canadians aren't even aware of this distinction... thanks again to this trope and readily available access to American media. |
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Total Drama includes one of the characters saying "That's it, I'm moving to Canada," before realizing that he already lives in Canada. | |
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In the Norwegian comic strip Pondus, there's a Mailman vs. Dog strip sequence where the neighbourhood mailman is seen wearing a full uniform with a hat, something which is not customary in the Norwegian postal service. Nor is it common for the mail carrier to go from house to house, like this one does; in Norwegian suburban neighbourhoods, the mailboxes of every household on the same street are usually situated on the same spot. | |
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An episode of Spitting Image had a Bruce Springsteen parody bemoaning this trope as "Bored with the UK of A". | |
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Attack the Block has the street youths constantly refer to the police as the "Feds". Although originating from the US, this slang phrase is used very differently in the UK due to the lack of a federal system like the US employs. It's mostly found among certain youthful demographics within London regions and does indeed refer to the police. Underlining this further, one of them claims that they might get in trouble with "the FBI." Another character points out the problems with that, but struggles to recall the name of the UK equivalent, calling it "Section 6 or something" (he's thinking of MI6). | |
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Pasila constantly parodies American legal requirements in Finland versus America. Being read your rights: Search warrants: |
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A fictional example in Rush Hour 3: Lee and Carter hitch a ride from a Parisian taxi driver, who assumes that all Americans are violent action movie characters, and it seems that he is proven right when Carter and Lee are chased by motorcycle-riding thugs. The taxi driver gets to shoot the Big Bad in the back and kill him, and becomes really excited that he felt what it was like to be "an American". | |
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The video game KGB made by French developer Cryo is mostly an impressive case of Shown Their Work when it comes to the game's Soviet Russian setting. However, there is an odd slip-up where the Russian main character gives his estimate of an object's weight in pounds instead of kilograms. | |
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Garth Marenghis Darkplace uses this as part of the intentional awfulness of the show — it's obvious Garth's indulged too much in American media, resulting in things like Liz having gone to "Harvard College Yale" and Rick having "fought in the 'Nam" (Britain never sent troops to Vietnam). | |
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Parodied in The IT Crowd when Roy says to call 911 for an office fire and is reminded by Moss that 911 for the US and it's 999 in the UK.note Except when it's not. And except when it's 0118 999 881 999 119 7253. In reality, calls to 911 (as well as 112) will actually be rerouted to 999 on most (if not all) British phone networks. | |
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In Encryption Straffe, the Serbo-Croatian Maurizio nicknames himself Rich, developed a habit for American junk food, and swings American slangs like “chill� or “dude� around. His American friend Genie is not amused. | |
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In the Rivers of London series, Peter gets rather annoyed when British youth refer to him or his fellow police as "the feds" or "the cops" (as opposed to "coppers"), merely because they've been watching so much American TV. Even "the filth" would at least be a British slang term. In What Abigail Did That Summer, starring his teenaged cousin, Abigail's own narration refers to police as Feds all the time. | |
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Rammstein's music video for their song "Amerika" contains the line 'We're all living in America' and features people from around the world engaging in American activities such as watching tv and talking on cell phones while eating McDonald's food, while the lyrics repeat American staples. | |
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