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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting
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While patriotism can be noble or nice, there can be times when one is ashamed of their country. Usually it's politically or socially motivated. Some people dislike the imperialistic, militaristic, chauvinistic or nationalistic approach of their own government and fellow citizens. Others, especially minorities, have been victimized by their government or their fellow citizens and resent the majority. These are the people who feel that My Country, Right or Wrong is mostly wrong and have nothing but contempt for Misplaced Nationalism. They will vocally criticize their own country and feel that they are in their right to do so since they were born there themselves. Though they can sometimes be categorized as misanthropes or a Boomerang Bigot there are also enough examples of people having good reasons and/or arguments to criticize their country of birth. This can result into active protest marches with the intent to change things. Or, in a less drastic fashion, result in Self-Deprecation comedy, done for satirical purposes. In some countries such criticism is seen as highly unpatriotic, even treasonous. Dictatorships are the most obvious example, but even in some democratic countries expressing such opinions can bring people into serious trouble, and politicians opposing those in power will take pains to emphasize that they love their country despite their disagreements. Yet, in a truly free society criticism of your own country should be respected. Lots of sociological revolutions and changes have occurred just because people questioned the ideas of their government and society, and many modern countries trace their founding date to such uprisings, celebrating them with patriotic songs and holidays. People who embody this trope usually consider criticism of their homeland as an act of patriotism in itself, reflecting the other part of My Country, Right or Wrong: if wrong to be set right. Contrast with Propaganda Piece. See Misplaced Nationalism for criticism of one people or country towards another. Offending the Creator's Own would be the religious and ethnic equivalent of this trope. See also Cultural Cringe, when this is done against a creator's culture, and Biting-the-Hand Humor, when this is done against the production's distributor. Compare Hail to the Thief, when criticism is directed toward the head of state, often in song. Please make sure that only examples are added where the criticism is made by a person born in the country they criticize. |
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Horrible Histories: The books have a very sarcastic tone and don't shy away from criticizing the British army, royalty and colonial system throughout its historical track record of atrocities. | |
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The Smurfs: In the story "Smurf vs. Smurf", the Smurfs get divided over linguistic differences between the North and the South of the village. This was Peyo's take on the language strife between the Flemish note who speak Dutch and the Walloons note who speak French in Belgium. | |
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German punk band Die Toten Hosen's "Tausend gute Gründe" lists "a thousand good reasons to be proud of this country" only to admit that at the moment, they can't actually come up with a single one. | |
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JonTron: Jon has some choice words in regards to the questionable techniques of the player character in Samurai Zombie Nation, as well as a jab at the country he's trying to "save": | |
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The Simpsons: Poking fun at America's culture, politics and economy is popular staple of the show. "The Crepes of Wrath": In which The Simpsons meet an Albanian foreign exchange student named Adil. "Homer Loves Flanders": Flanders drives Homer to a sports game. When Homer notices Lenny and Carl he pushes Flanders' face down out of sight because he is afraid of being seen with him. Carl notices Homer's car is driving without a chauffeur and assumes he's driving "one of those robot cars." As the car crashes Lenny sarcastically remarks: "One of those AMERICAN robot cars." "Bart vs. Australia": When the family flees back to the American embassy in Australia the staff tries to stop them from entering by activating an electrical fence near a sign that says "Made with pride in the U.S.A." The fence malfunctions halfway, causing the Simpsons to enter after all. "Lisa's Wedding": When Homer and Bart hang out the Union Jack to welcome Lisa's British boyfriend Hugh they bring his attention to it by saying: "Here's some American hospitality!" whereupon it turns out the flag accidentally caught on fire. Homer and Bart try to extinguish the fire by throwing some compost upon it, then give the ravaged remains to Hugh. "Treehouse of Horror VII": Kang and Kodos disguise themselves as the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates but are unmasked. In a direct jab at the American political system they say: "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo": When the family visits an American themed restaurant in Japan: "Blame It on Lisa": Homer and Bart are stopped by a Brazilian lifeguard who notices they are American by Homer's shirt, which shows Uncle Sam devouring the world with the phrase: "Try and Stop Us." "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpialad'ohcious" has Shary Bobbins teaching the children to clean up their mess by hiding it from view. This inspires Bart to sing: "It's the American way!" "The PTA Disbands": Homer: "Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike: you just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way." "The Trouble with Trillions": After returning back from Cuba the following conversation takes place: "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs": Colby''' (Stephen Colbert in Inksuit Actor guise) describes America as having been made great by the fact that it does not understand the limits of its power and doesn't care about anyone else's opinion of it. "Dangerous Curves": "Treehouse of Horror XVII": In "Married To The Blob", Homer turns into a large cannibalistic blob. After eating some obese Germans he says: "Must eat more fat people. Thank God I'm in America."' "The Bart of War": After a fight breaks out at the baseball game, Sideshow Mel suggests they sing a song. The Sea Captain recommends "Not a hymn to war like our national anthem, but a sweet soothing hymn like the national anthem of Canada". The entire crowd then joins hands in the shape of the maple leaf and sings "O Canada", with Marge holding Canadian and Quebec flags. "Well Bart, we've learned that war is not the answer," says Milhouse. To which Bart replies "Except to all of America's problems". "The Italian Bob": Lisa decides to pretend she's Canadian in order to avoid having to face America's unfortunate history, but this is made difficult by Homer's boorish Americanness. "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed": When The Simpsons visit Israel. "In the Name of the Grandfather": In the episode where the family visits Ireland, one of the locals mentions that the Irish bettered their country by sending all of their idiots to America, where they became police officers. "Bart-Mangled Banner": The whole episode is a satire of post-9/11 American patriotism, taking specific potshots at the American Republican Party. Despite the fact that the show has often mocked the United States and both Democrats and Republicans, quite a few Americans were not amused. Which is odd, because near the end of the episode the Simpsons do migrate back to the USA, because they miss it, despite everything that happened. "Insane Clown Poppy": When Homer asks Marge if she wants something done right or fast, she says that, like all Americans, she wants fast. "Marge Simpson in Screaming Yellow Honkers": The educational video about road rage says rage is what makes America great but people have to know the right place for it. |
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Fela Kuti openly protested the Nigerian government in his music. It brought him in a lot of trouble. He was arrested several times and beaten up by soldiers who rampaged his house. | |
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Gil Scott-Heron didn't shy away from addressing racial and social issues in the USA either. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is one long litany against the USA, with "Whitey On The Moon" perhaps the best example. In this song he says that "while Whitey is on the moon" black people's problems on Earth have basically not changed for the better. | |
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Doonesbury: Since the 1970s this Pullitzer Prize winning political cartoon has addressed and criticized all American political presidents and other events. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: Dorian does have some love for the Tevinter Imperium; it's his country, after all. But he's also not blind, and he knows full well that the Magisterium is corrupt and full of cackling supervillains who give mages everywhere a bad name. The tipping point that has him leave to join the Inquisition is his former mentor going off the deep end and joining the Big Bad, and he often berates other Tevinters for acting like the boogeymen the rest of Thedas thinks them to be. | |
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The Divine Comedy: Italians, especially those from Florence, populate Hell so completely that Dante manages to find five Florentines immediately in the circle for Thieves. This prompts him to tell Florence to be joyous in its greatness, since her name extends everywhere in Hell. Additionally, though he was a Catholic Dante puts a number of corrupt Popes in Hell too. | |
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Root into Europe: Despite poking fun at other European countries the show also mocks British tourism. Mr. Root feels that all other countries should be just like the UK, but many of his ideas about European countries are very stereotypical. Thus he frequently makes a fool of himself. | |
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Choking Victim pulled no punches in their views on the United States for misleading the masses via media and aggressive globalization ("Fuck America"), its police ("Crack Rock Steady"), prison practices ("Apple Pie and Police State"), making the masses complacent with television and drugs ("500 Channels"), and so on. Long before 9/11, the band were known to burn models of the World Trade Center in protest, and even after the day in question, singer Scott Sturgeon went on to claim that he "wasn't exactly opposed to [the towers] falling down" and kept burning models of the WTC for at least a couple of years afterward with his other band. | |
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Scandinavia and the World: The comic strip pokes fun at many Scandinavian stereotypical ideas about other countries. Despite being drawn and written by a Dane it pokes fun at the Danish too. | |
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Spitting Image: This satirical puppet show mercilessly lambasted everyone, but since it was made in the United Kingdom a lot of attacks were directed at British society too: the monarchy, government, class system, the low-budget film industry, advertising campaigns, British Newspapers,... | |
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Chuggaaconroy takes a potshot at Moray Towers returning in Splatoon 2 by blaming America (his home country) for it.note For context, fans were polled for their favorite levels in the first Splatoon game. Despite it being one of the most hated stages in the game by competitive players, Moray Towers was ranked as the most popular stage in America, resulting in its return for the sequel. | |
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MAD Magazine: A decades long tradition of this magazine. | |
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Wolfenstein: The New Order: Compared to Wyatt or B.J., J doesn't have much patriotism for America, given his rather bitter (if valid) gripes about how blacks were treated by whites in America, especially as this takes place in a world where the Civil Rights Movement never happened and, as we learn in the sequel, the Ku Klux Klan is now practically running the show in America. On the other hand, he goes out playing ''The Star Spangled Banner" loud enough for all of Berlin to hear. Speaking of the sequel, fascism at home hits B.J. hard when he visits his abusive father Rip, only to learn that Rip has proudly taken up the Nazi flag because it allows him to be the Confederate slave-owner he always wanted to be. The final straw is learning that Rip threw his Jewish wife, B.J.'s mom, to the Nazis for sport. B.J. murders him and has a MUCH lower opinion of "good-old" America from that point on. |
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The Nostalgia Critic: In his review of "The Magic Voyage" Doug criticizes the German company who made this film for making such a historically inaccurate film. Then he turns the tables by adding: "We can't even get our own history right!" and shows the poster for Pocahontas. | |
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Many westerns from the Sixties on have criticized the USA's wars against Native Americans in the 19th century: Dances with Wolves, for instance (whereas previously the native peoples were generally bad guys). | |
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King Ralph: After the entire British Royal Family died in an accident the palace manages to find one still surviving heir: To top it all off the next scene shows Ralph (the American they were talking about) in a bar indulging himself with a pinball machine, coming across as a complete oaf. |
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The Times They Are A-Changin': "With God On Our Side" criticizes the American government and army for their genocide on the Native American during the 19th century and the bloodshed during the American Civil War and Spanish-American War. It also criticizes the Red Scare and the nuclear arms race. From the same album "Only A Pawn In Their Game" and "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" are both inspired by real-life injustices in the USA, namely a hotel barmaid getting struck down by a wealthy white man in a hotel in Maryland and the murder of black civil rights activist Medgar Evers. | |
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Documentary Hearts and Minds is a scathing indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam that doesn't just stop at questioning geopolitical or military decisions, but indicts the American character, portraying the nation as loud and aggressive and violent and racist. Daniel Ellsberg is quoted as saying "We weren't on the wrong side; we were the wrong side." The film was made by Peter Davis, born and raised in Southern California. | |
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A Fish Called Wanda: John Cleese's character Archie gives the following speech: | |
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Woody Guthrie: "Talking Dust Bowl Blues" from Dust Bowl Ballads: | |
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Pinky and the Brain: In Issue #43 of the Animaniacs comics, the Brain gets money by suing a tobacco company. When Pinky points out they don't smoke, Brain points out that the great part of being an American is that "the law has nothing to do with the facts". | |
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Gulliver's Travels: The first two parts satirized English politicians of Swift's days. The third part is a satire on the English Royal Academy of Science. | |
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Swedish metal band Sabaton's 2012 album Carolus Rex, their first #1 hit in their home country, is a warts-and-all retelling of the rise and fall of Sweden's 17th century empire, from Gustavus Adolphus to Carolus Rex. In particular, the title track paints Charles XII as practically a madman, utterly convinced of his own God-given rightness, and the following song "Ett slag färgat rött" (translation here) harshly criticizes his army for murdering hundreds of Russian prisoners of war after the Battle of Fraustadt. Aside from this album, the band often takes Patriotic Fervor to the point of comedy in live performances. | |
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Desire: The song "Hurricane" criticizes the imprisonment of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer falsely accused of murder and tried by an all-white jury. Dylan's song actually raised awareness of this man's false imprisonment and made people do the trial over, which would eventually lead to Carter's release. | |
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Although Jose Rizal did love his country greatly, his two novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo harshly criticized the Philippine society of his time, especially the clergy. | |
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Team America: World Police: The anti-terrorist squad is portrayed as causing more damage to other countries than actually helping them. An important story arc too, as Gary the actor is shocked by their actions and refuses to help his country any longer. On the other hand, the Film Actors Guild—one of many critics to the titular Team America—are portrayed as a negative version of this trope as they are so obsessed with stopping the group that they are willing to sponsor Obviously Evil people like Kim Jong Il for a World Peace conference without realizing his plan to use the conference to launch a massive terrorist attack. |
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"Some Girls" from The Rolling Stones' Some Girls: | |
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Alien Weaponry's "Whispers" criticizes the government of New Zealand for pretending to value the indigenous people (the band members are M�ori) but breaking its treaty obligations to them, and starts with a clip of a Pompous Political Pundit arguing that "no, actually, colonizing the M�ori was a good thing". | |
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Popeye features "Sweet, Sweethaven — An Anthem": | |
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"America" from West Side Story (1961) is partially a Patriotic Fervor song as well as a song that is critical of the USA. The Puerto Rican immigrant women all prefer the life in "America" over life in Puerto Rico, while their men are far more critical. This is a departure from the stage version of the song, where the lyrics had very little explicit criticism of America, if any. In-universe, the "My Country" part of the trope applies because Puerto Rico is actually an American colony, something lampshaded in the song itself. From an out-of-universe perspective, the song was written by American Stephen Sondheim. | |
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An episode of Sliders shows a world in which America lost the American Revolution and is still under British rule. After helping a Second American Revolution to succeed, as they're sliding to the next world, Professor Arturo (played by John Rhys-Davis) drops this humdinger: | |
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The Adam Ruins Everything episode "Adam Ruins...America" centers around deconstructing the myth of American exceptionalism by stating that: the American dream is unattainable due to massive economic inequality; the U.S. constitution is notoriously hard to change because legislators insist on interpreting the original language instead of keeping it relevant to the times, and the constitution actually made it legal to own slaves, and thus Lincoln's emancipation proclamation was unconstitutional; finally, after the end of the Civil War, former slaves were able to benefit from their new rights, but groups like the KKK and their sympathizers stripped them of their rights, and the Civil Rights Movement wasn't so much for creating new laws to give people new rights, so much as forcing the government to enforce the laws that had already been written one hundred years before. | |
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Jeeves and Wooster: An amusing satire of the early 20th century British upper class system. | |
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck strongly criticizes the United States and especially Steinbeck's home state, California. | |
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Code Geass: Lelouch vi Britannia hates Britannia for what it did: used him as a political pawn, invaded Japan among other countries with him still in it, and has been responsible for occupying most of the world and taking away the rights of other nations. He's made it his goal in life to completely overthrow Britannia's government and see the empire either reformed or utterly annihilated. | |
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The Grim Reaper in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life complains: "Be quiet! You Englishmen... You're all so fucking pompous and none of you have got any balls." | |
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Jacques Brel: The Belgian singer attacked his home region Flanders and its inhabitants in three songs. The final one, "Les F..." was such a scathing attack on Flemish nationalists that the number was banned from airing on the radio. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball, a show primarily made in the UK, and the creator of which has both French and English heritage, at one point had Gumball compare kindergarteners to British tourists. | |
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Private Eye: Also well known for satirizing British politics. | |
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All in the Family: It dealt with issues that polarized American society in the 1970s and ridiculed them. | |
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Life in Hell, a.k.a. Matt Groening Satirizes American Society, especially its government and educational system (one comic collection is called "School is Hell"), and Republicans in particular. Bongo's parody of the Pledge of Allegiance sums it up: | |
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Although the British-born John Oliver acquired American citizenship, he will still mock his native United Kingdom in addition to the United States. | |
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Little Britain: Every episode proudly praises the glory of "being British", only to feature a lot of Englishmennote And Ladies.note And Welshmen and Scots. who are hardly something to be proud of. | |
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Nero: Also enjoys satirizing Flemish/Belgian society and politics. | |
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The "Big Boss Trilogy": Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the epic tale of American hero Naked Snake's discovery of the sheer corruption and treachery of his homeland and heroes, to the point that he builds his own nation from the forgotten armies of other nations that also betrayed their soldiers. | |
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On Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell (and earlier) Shaun Micallef likes to portray Australia as being a country of minor importance which is lucky to get invited to major global events, sometimes portraying Australia as a woman desperately trying to win a date from a man out of her league or just a general suck up (like in the segment "whose bottom should we be kissing now?") looking for bigger more powerful nations to align themselves with. | |
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Duckman: Also satirized a lot of aspects of American society and politics. | |
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Unsounded: Quigley despises Alderode, at one point quipping that he'd rather be called the son of a whore than a son of Alderode. | |
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Blackadder: It targets the British upper class society frequently. | |
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"Wide Wide River" from It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest: | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: The team took a lot of shots at the British class system, most memorably in the "Upper-Class Twit of the Year" sketch. The British military also got mocked a lot. | |
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"Slow Train" from Slow Train Coming | |
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Roots by Sepultura: While the album celebrates Brazilian culture, it also criticizes the dictatorships from the past, poverty in the favelas, the disrespectful treatment of the Indian tribes in the country, and the environmental destruction of the Amazon rainforest. | |
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South African Alan Paton criticized his country's racial issues with books like Cry, the Beloved Country, although that actually predated the formal beginning of apartheid. He continued to do this for the rest of his life. | |
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World's Dumbest... commentator Wes Denning may be a proud Aussie, but he'll still take a cheap shot or two at his homeland. | |
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In Ted Lasso, Sam learns that the parent company of Dubai Air, the sponsor of his football team, is causing extreme environmental damage in his home country of Nigeria and bribing the government to look the other way. In response, he pulls out of an ad campaign Dubai Air was featuring him in, tapes over the sponsorship logo on his uniform (with the rest of the team then doing the same in support) and openly accuses the Nigerian government of corruption during the post-match press conference. | |
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South Park: "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants": Even though Osama bin Laden is ridiculed mercilessly, the episode also points out that the Afghan children hate the U.S.A. because the American military bombed their country flat and built their bases on Muslim holy lands. This leads to an argument between them: "I'm a Little Bit Country": In the pro- and anti-war debate, America is described as "an entire country saying one thing and then doing another." Trey Parker and Matt Stone have described South Park as a show about what it means to live in America. |
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Hellblazer: Where the only people more evil than the English politicians, military, policeman, and aristocracy controlled by The Legions of Hell are the English politicians, military, policeman, and aristocracy who are not, has been written by Englishmen like Jamie Delano, Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, and Neil Gaiman. | |
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The songs "American Idiot" and "Holiday" from American Idiot by Green Day are critical of president George W. Bush's government and the 2003 war in Iraq. | |
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Family Guy has Brian (an extreme left-wing liberal) meeting right-wing Republican radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh in the episode "Excellence In Broadcasting". Rush actually manages to convince Brian to change his political views and develop a newfound sense of patriotism. Brian moves in with Rush, and takes the liberty of replacing all of Rush's appliances with American-made versions. They all break catastrophically as Brian lists off what he replaced one by one, which includes: the toaster, refrigerator, dishwasher, stove, oven, coffee maker, coffee mug, fine china dishware, cupboard door hinges, light bulbs, ceiling fan, garbage disposal, faucets, Rush's man-bra, and his cat, which MOOS. | |
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The American left-wing political comedy podcast Chapo Trap House is known for its constant vitriol towards the (perceived) racist, sexist, classist, imperialist attitudes that animate American politics in general. | |
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Suske en Wiske: The early stories criticized the Belgian government quite often, especially in its treatment of the Flemish population. In the reprints most of these comments have been removed. | |
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In Young Avengers, Patriot frequently criticizes America, despite wearing its colors, because as a black kid whose grandfather was wrongfully imprisoned for decades, he knows that his country is not always right. | |
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"AMERICA" by Motionless in White. | |
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