History Main / AmericansHateTingle

* Tingle from ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}''. Popular enough in Japan and part of Europe to get his own game(s), and loathed enough in America, Canada, and the rest of Europe to have only three other roles in main games following his first appearance. The main games he appeared in are as follows: Majora's Mask, Oracle of Ages, Wind Waker and The Minish Cap.

* This has happened to the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] in Japan. While the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 1987 Turtles]] were very popular back then, the Japanese audiences were expecting the newer Turtles to be like the 1987 Turtles and got DarkerAndEdgier Turtles instead. The newer cartoon didn't catch on and 52 episodes were dubbed before it got canceled.

* Walmart, despite being the most successful chain of stores in the world, did very poorly in Brazil. The main reason being that the local suppliers didn't like the way Walmart did business (basicily amounting to Walmart telling the suppliers "we dictate the price of product X, or we won't carry product Y, also let as look at your books so we can figure out which product you make the most off of so we can blackmail you more effectively") and told them to fuck off, leaving them with limited, overpriced, and/or crappy stock.

* Walmart, despite being the most successful chain of stores in the world, did very poorly in Brazil. The main reason being that the local suppliers didn't like the way Walmart did business (basicily amounting to Walmart telling the suppliers "we dictate the price of product X, or we won't carry product Y") and told them to fuck off, leaving them with limited, overpriced, and/or crappy stock.

* Walmart, despite being the most successful chain of stores in the world, did very poorly in Brazil. The main reason being that the local suppliers didn't like the way Walmart did business and told them to fuck off, leaving them with limited, overpriced, and/or crappy stock.

** In Australia soccer is slightly more popular than it is in the States , but still far less than anywhere else since we prefer RugbyFootball and AustralianRulesFootball. Oddly enough American Football while not played much gets pretty good ratings on cable TV due to many of the rugby fanatics using it to get their fix through the summer[[hottip:*:Note, it's winter up in the northern hemisphere]].

* Tim Horton's. A Canadian fast food chain founded by and named after a former NHL player. They sell coffee, tea, hot chocolate, frozen coffee, [[strike: donuts]] doughnuts, bagels, soup, sandwiches, wraps, and various pastries. In Canada they're more common than [=McDonald's=] to the point that they're often blamed for the fact that Canadians consume more [[strike: donuts]] doughnuts per capita than any other nation. They are so entrenched in Canadian culture, that they even set up a restaurant in Afghanistan to serve Canadian troops stationed there. South of the border they're almost unheard of, giving rise to the common joke about the car with the American plates ordering a burger from the drive through. Conversely, Starbucks are much more a niche market north of the border.

* Still missing the point; if Clone Ghandi is the inverse of Real Ghandi, then the more irrevevent the depiction appears, the more reverent it actually is. FridgeBrilliance, perhaps?

** Irrelevant. If Americans want to be disrespectful to their national figures, it's their business. Bringing Gandhi into it is unacceptable. Or So The Protestors Think.

** In America, Walmart ''in general'' is quite popular, but there are numerous small pockets of resistance nationwide where the majority of the population agrees with Brazil, finding its business practices reprehensible and disgusting at best. The city of Jonquiere in the Canadian province of Quebec briefly made headlines when the efforts of local Wal-Mart workers to unionize actually prompted the store to pack up and leave.

* Poutines are considered a nice side dish in Canada. Elsewhere, they're either not sold at all or seen as squicky. For those who don't know, Poutine is a dish consisting of french fries, cheese curds, and gravy (or, in the case of "Italian Poutine" "Salsa Poutine" or "Chili Poutine", tomato sauce.) Ground beef and vegetables are also sometimes included, depending on whether it's being sold as a meal, or side-dish. Few Canadians can deny that the warm yummy gooiness of the melted cheese curds is awesome, but things tend to get...[[BrokenBase complicated]] when sour cream is added to the mix.

** Curling is known in Scotland (being that's where the sport was invented) and isn't viewed as peculiar and unusual as it is elsewhere in the world, but it's popularity is not nearly as big as it is in Canada.

*** The two sections above somewhat miss the entire point and/or become StrawmanArguments ''themselves''. A Smart is not meant to take on the role of your big, continent-cruising sedans, and anyone who e.g. ends up buying two of them to transport a family of four would be seen of as crazy (yet, two Smart CDis probably require less energy and natural resources to make, and use less fuel ''between them'' on a cruise, than a typical 4-door). They're meant as transport for 1 or 2 people plus some baggage, where public transport wouldn't fit the bill and a scooter or motorcycle would not have enough carrying capacity / be too easily stolen / not offer enough weather or crash protection / require extra lessons and passing a seperate license test - and your only alternative would be a larger car that gets used in ''exactly the same way''. They're meant to replace larger, harder to park, thirstier sedans that despite their spacious interior, copious luggage space and powerful engines, STILL get used 99% of the time for pootling around in city speed limits and traffic with a solo driver or one passenger. At those lower speeds, crash damage is significantly reduced, and given the amount of safety-focussed design that goes into a Smart's construction, I wouldn't want to bet against my own Focus-sized car coming off worse in a 40mph shunt. Besides all that, the Smart is notable by being almost the only 2-seat city car (besides some actually-laughable mini electrics or "license-free" microcars) ... all the other contenders can typically seat 4 or even 5 adults in reasonable comfort (in the case of the basically Smart-sized iQ, it's "3 and a half") - trust me, I've tried out the fit of a Citroen C1, and it can fit 4 people of my 5'11 frame quite happily (much better than their old, slightly larger AX), though you need a roof-rack or one of the rear seats folded to carry luggage for more than 2 - and they will STILL be quite efficient and nimble even so, making the entire argument about "carrying more passengers" completely moot. Nothing wrong with the cars themselves, but very definitely a Tingle issue - it's popular perception more than anything.

* City cars like the smart series and any of the small Toyotas (Yarises and Aygos) are popular on the narrow congested streets of Europe. Americans mostly laughs at them with the exception of green California.
**And New York. Nobody laughs at a Smarte Car when there's no parking on the street.

*''{{Borat}}'' was considered so offensive, it was actually [[BannedInChina banned in Kazakhstan]]. It was also banned in Russia, because many felt it would lead to race riots.

* The operettas of GilbertAndSullivan are very popular and considered important and influential in Britain and the rest of the English-speaking world. They also used to popular in Germany around the turn of the last century, but since then have fallen completely out of favour and if you mention Gilbert and Sullivan there now, you'll either garner blank looks or the question: "You mean the guy from the '70s who sang 'Alone Again, Naturally'?" A 1995 humorous guide, ''Der einzig wahre Operetten- und Musicalführer'' had this to say about ''TheMikado'':

* Tim Horton's. A Canadian fast food chain founded by and named after a former NHL player. They sell coffee, tea, hot chocolate, frozen coffee, [[strike: donuts]] doughnuts, bagels, soup, sandwiches, wraps, and various pastries. In Canada they're more common than Macdonald's to the point that they're often blamed for the fact that Canadians consume more [[strike: donuts]] doughnuts per capita than any other nation. They are so entrenched in Canadian culture, that they even set up a restaurant in Afghanistan to serve Canadian troops stationed there. South of the border they're almost unheard of, giving rise to the common joke about the car with the American plates ordering a burger from the drive through. Conversely, Starbucks are much more a niche market north of the border.
**It's worth pointing out that there are quite a few of them in Eastern and Mid-Michigan (along with everything else Canadian)
*Poutines are considered a nice side dish in Canada. Elsewhere, they're either not sold at all or seen as squicky. For those who don't know, Poutine is a dish consisting of french fries, cheese curds, and gravy (or, in the case of "Italian Poutine" "Salsa Poutine" or "Chili Poutine", tomato sauce.) Ground beef and vegetables are also sometimes included, depending on whether it's being sold as a meal, or side-dish. Few Canadians can deny that the warm yummy gooiness of the melted cheese curds is awesome, but things tend to get...[[BrokenBase complicated]] when sour cream is added to the mix.

** Even within America, many regional fast food and restaurant chains often fail to catch on in other parts of the country. Sonic Drive-In is uncommon in the northern states due to the fact that the weather often forces drive-in restaurants to close for the winter. Waffle House, despite being a cultural icon in [[DeepSouth the South]], is looked upon with either a "huh?" or derision in the Northeast due to the diner culture in that area of the country.

**Poutines are considered a nice side dish in Canada. Elsewhere, they're either not sold at all or seen as squicky. For those who don't know, Poutine is a dish consisting of french fries, cheese curds, and gravy (or, in the case of "Italian Poutine" "Salsa Poutine" or "Chili Poutine", tomato sauce.) Ground beef and vegetables are also sometimes included, depending on whether it's being sold as a meal, or side-dish. Few Canadians can deny that the warm yummy gooiness of the melted cheese curds is awesome, but things tend to get...[[BrokenBase complicated]] when sour cream is added to the mix.

**In TheWindWaker, as part of a vital plot point, the player is required to break him out of prison for the crime of petty theft. Fans take the opportunity of him being in jail to joke about him being a [[MemeticMolester sex offender]], but one thing's for sure, in TheWindWaker, Nintendo turned his weirdness UpToEleven, to the point where many found his antics simply disturbing (he refers to Link, a twelve-year-old kid, as "Mr. Fairy").

*{{Borat}} was considered so offensive, it was actually [[BannedInChina banned in Kazakhstan]]. It was also banned in Russia, because many felt it would lead to race riots.

* [=~300~=] was condemned as "Western Propaganda" in Iran due to [[UnfortunateImplications the way Persians were portrayed]] in that film.

* The DynastyWarriors series of games are huge sellers in Japan. But they merely have a cult following in America and the UK.

** This extends to even [[{{Shipping}} ships]] involving him: England/Japan is easily the first or second most popular ship in Japanese fandom. In Western fandom...not so much. Some Western fans even seem to dislike the England/Japan ship mainly ''because'' of its massive popularity in Japan. Even Greece/Japan, the most well-liked ship for Japan in Western fandom, receives the occasional backlash from fans who think that Japan isn't interesting enough to be paired with Greece and/or that Greece has a more interesting personality when paired with Turkey.