History Main / CreatorProvincialism

** The couch gag of "Them, Robot" shows The Simpsons hanging up a poster in 1989 with the text: "America, the most powerful country in the world". Then the years pass by and in 2012 (the year of broadcast) they pull the old text down to replace it with a new one: "America, too big to fail (we hope)". While well-intentioned -- it's clearly aimed as a spark of hope to the American viewers in light of people suffering under the economic crisis -- the recession was nevertheless a universal problem, not one America alone was facing.

** The couch gag of "Them, Robot" shows The Simpsons hanging up a poster in 1989 with the text: "America, the most powerful country in the world". Then the years pass by and in 2012 (the year of broadcast) they pull the old text down to replace it with a new one: "America, too big to fail (we hope)". This is clearly aimed as a spark of hope to the American viewers in light of people suffering under the economic crisis, which nevertheless is a universal problem, not just of America alone. Furthermore, even though the creators try to put in a little MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting humor it still comes across as if the rest of the world should solely pity the poor Americans, while other countries like Greece or Iceland were hit far more seriously by the economic crisis than the USA.

* Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality: subverted and lampshaded. Although the action takes place mostly in Britain, many heroes have non-British ancestry, or have immigrated. British wizards think of themselves as of "the greatest magic nation in the world", but it is implied on multiple occasions that other regions of the world, from Asia to North America, have their own well-developed wizard communities and rich history, which is only tangentially related to the history of Magic Britain. When [[spoiler: on the Hermione's trial Harry scares a dementor]], this makes news all over English-speaking wizarding world, except for the United States. "The American Wizard" is more concerned with wirewolves supposedly being the first historical population of Wyoming.

* Creator/RobertJSawyer has set many of his books in or around Toronto where he has spent most of his life (he's from Ottawa). Others are nearby and still in Ontario.

** ''Anime/LauraThePrairieGirl'' is a Japanese anime adapting an American novel about American Midwestern life. That being said, the original novel is quite popular there

** ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'' takes place in India, and then England. The staff behind it is fully Japanese, however it takes clues from [[Literature/TheSecretGarden the novel it's based on]], which was written by an [[Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett English woman]].

* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''

** ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' is a manga about the French Revolution written by a Japanese woman, Creator/RyokoIkeda, and there are no Japanese characters. When the anime aired in France, the French loved it, and she even received a Legion d'Honneur award!

* The 1975 anime ''Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi'' is a re-telling of the French Revolution with some fictional elements here and there. The main characters are mostly French, with a Spanish side character.

** ''Anime/HelloSandybell'' takes place in Scotland.

* ''Anime/ADogOfFlanders1975'': Averted, and that's why the setting seems so unusual. The story is set in Belgium, but since the showrunners are Japanese and have no idea how Belgium is supposed to look like. The end results come out looking like the Netherlands, with Alois wearing traditional Dutch clothing and a white sling, and Nello wearing clogs.

* ''Anime/IsabelleOfParis'' takes place in 1870s France and England and focuses on the Franco-Prussian war.
* ''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'' runs on this, since it's a Japanese studio that adapts Western literature into anime.
* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'' takes place in India and then England. The staff behind it is fully Japanese.

*** The setting takes place in an apocalyptic version of the U.S., through there's many characters of Japanese origin, mainly The Engineer, which is based on the likeness of the mangaka Creator/JunjiIto, the Musician, based in musician Daichi Miura and the Chiral Artist, who is also of Japanese origin.