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''[[WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries ...In AMERICA!]]''[[hottip:*:Actually, I'm Canadian.]]
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''[[WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries ...In AMERICA!]]''

* [[ValuesDissonance Legal access to firearms]].

** It's possible that some Americans wonder if there really is a world full of inconsequential non-Americans beyond the borders of the US, or if it's all just a myth that those crazy people in NewYorkCity, LosAngeles and WashingtonDC invented to perturb them.

** Unlike European countries where you can receive radio and TV shows from other countries over the air, many Americans live out their entire lives without visiting another country, learning a foreign language or seeing foreign media. Some might even wonder if there really is a world beyond the borders of the US, or if it's all just a myth that crazy people in NewYorkCity, LosAngeles and WashingtonDC invented to perturb them.

* With so much access to different forms of media in the form of TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, satellite radio, blogs, webcasts, Twitter, podcasts, etc., those outlets trying to keep an audience must increasingly differentiate from one another.

''[[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries ...In AMERICA!]]''

--> -- ''And He Built A Crooked House'', '''RobertAHeinlein'''

-->"''Americans are considered crazy anywhere in the world.\\
They will usually concede a basis for the accusation but point to California as the focus of the infection. Californians stoutly maintain that their bad reputation is derived solely from the acts of the inhabitants of Los Angeles County. Angelenos will, when pressed, admit the charge but explain hastily, 'It's Hollywood. It's not our fault, we didn't ask for it; Hollywood just grew.'\\
The people in Hollywood don't care; they glory in it. If you are interested, they will drive you up Laurel Canyon 'where we keep the violent cases.' The Canyonites - the brown-legged women, the trunks-clad men constantly busy building and rebuilding their slap-happy unfinished houses - regard with faint contempt the dull creatures who live down in the flats, and treasure in their hearts the secret knowledge that they, and only they, know how to live.''"
--> '''''AndHeBuiltACrookedHouse''''', '''RobertAHeinlein'''

A lot of weird news stories seem to take place in the United States of America, giving a misleading impression that the place has more weirdness than average.

* [[{{Eagleland}} Every other country is boring, so no one cares about them.]]

[[IThoughtItMeant This trope name does not refer to]] works that are only available in the US. That would be NoExportForYou. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Only an American could make that mistake.]]

[[IThoughtItMeant Nor does it refer to]] LarryTheCableGuy's [[Series/OnlyInAmerica television series of the same name]].

* Legal access to firearms.

* [[EagleLand Every other country is boring, so no one cares about them.]]

--> '''''And he built a crooked house''''', '''RobertAHeinlein'''

* For whatever bizarre reason (perhaps due to CreatorProvincialism in most of the news media limiting our relative knowledge of what other countries think of us apart from the obvious fact that everyone hates us), you'll hear far fewer Americans complaining to foreigners of all the negative ethnocentric national stereotypes about us (that we're all stupid and uneducated, either shockingly ugly or shockingly beautiful, purely materialistic, lazy, belligerent, etc.) than vice versa. You'll often see lists and articles about Mexican, French, German stereotypes, etc. even ''in'' America, yet seldom any about stereotypes of Americans.

* It's a rich country (though not oh so much in the current recession)

* One of the very few, if not the only, country to observe the ludicrous ritual known as Daylight Savings Time.

* People in America are a willing audience for the weird and slightly unusual.

* For whatever bizarre reason (perhaps due to CreatorProvincialism in most of the news media limiting our relative knowledge of what other countries think of it apart from the obvious fact that everyone hates us), you'll hear far fewer Americans complaining to foreigners of all the negative ethnocentric national stereotypes about us (that we're all stupid and uneducated, either shockingly ugly or shockingly beautiful, purely materialistic, lazy, belligerent, etc.) than vice versa. You'll often see lists and articles about Mexican, French, German stereotypes, etc. even ''in'' America, yet seldom any about stereotypes of Americans.

* It's a rich country.

[[IThoughtItMeant This trope name does not refer to]] works that are only available in the US. That would be NoExportForYou.

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''[[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries ...In AMERICA!]]''

[[IThoughtItMeant Thhis trope name does not refer to]] works that are only available in the US. That would be NoExportForYou.

Compare with VocalMinority, MisBlamed, DoubleStandard [[hottip:* :in which a non American country or group that does something wrong will not be as vilified]]. See OnlyInFlorida and OnlyInMiami as a subset. See {{Eagleland}} for the unfortunate image that results.

Compare with VocalMinority, MisBlamed. See OnlyInFlorida as a subset. See {{Eagleland}} for the unfortunate image that results.

Often used [[AccentuateTheNegative negatively]] as a NoTrueScotsman fallacy, in which someone says something negative "can only be done in America", [[NotSoDifferent regardless if any other part of the world can or has been subjected to it]].

Often used as a NoTrueScotsman fallacy, in which someone says something negative "can only be done in America", [[NotSoDifferent regardless if any other part of the world can or has been subjected to it]].

Compare with VocalMinority. See OnlyInFlorida as a subset. See {{Eagleland}} for the unfortunate image that results.