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-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \
to:
-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \\\"America\\\" as synonymous for their own country alone]]. This often happens because the [[BackedByThePentagon US military \\\'\\\'pays\\\'\\\' films to do so.]] If you show them in a very positive light, they\\\'ll let you borrow top notch military planes, ships, and tanks to film, which would normally cost you millions to get access to. So long as you make sure that evil military general is French, and the army that stops him aren\\\'t, you go a long way towards making your film within your budget. Not that this is an uncommon practice or restricted to the United States but it really makes you wonder.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is just as \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
Looking up [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=190.232.6.250 this guy\\\'s edits]] I see that he\\\'s been doing this very same thing on other article pages, too.
At \\\'\\\'AmericaWinsTheWar\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by CharredKnight):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:29 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->* HBO\\\'s \\\"The Pacific\\\" is full of this... It gives more importance to the war at the pacific that it ought and attributes heroism to a bunch of guys that won only because some Gay, I mean, Enola Gay, threw a major blastard into the fry... And yeah, I mean the Japanese were so superior at war that it ended when a frightened General said \\\"Just NukeEm\\\"
At \\\'\\\'IndependenceDay\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Caswin}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:11 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Changed lines 8 from:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome. What {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely aware of just how silly it is.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'To:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith, interestingly sounding much like Hitler) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome... Its so awfully nazionalistic its SnarkBait to many but to others what {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely unaware of just how silly it is.
At \\\'\\\'SnarkBait\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{DEFCON1}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 07:30 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 69:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*\\\'\\\'Independece Day\\\'\\\'. From the trash can of nazionalism gone to its worst it defines snark bait.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 80:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->* \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\'. Its the kind of garbage where Cerberus is degraded into Fluffy that justifies haters everywhere...
In \\\'\\\'ThrowAwayCountry\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Peteman}}):
-->03/Apr/10 at 06:18 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 85:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*** obviously the retards that created such a nazionalistic film couldn\\\'t care any better about geography, its HollywoodAtlas all over again, raised to eleven!
My guess is that these edits were written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]], [[FlameBait hateful]], and [[CriticalResearchFailure extremely]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark in all these edits, not to mention the repeated usage of the portmanteau of [[GodwinsLaw nazi + nationalism]] to describe \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' sort of pride Americans have for their country, or the rant on this article about the United States of America supposedly pretending that it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
My reason for that? Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent. They use the equivalent of \\\"United Stateser\\\" to refer to Americans in Spanish and Portugese. {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' bashing the United States with claims that it and everyone who lives there is {{Eagleland}} Type #2 ... and they do it because they neither know nor care that the English-speaking world refers to \\\"the Americas\\\" as \\\'\\\'two\\\'\\\' continents, and that the demonym for U.S. citizens (\\\"American\\\") developed naturally out of British usage for \\\"people of European descent living in British America\\\" dating back as far as the 1640s, \\\'\\\'[[OlderThanTheyThink before the nation was even founded]]\\\'\\\' (which, might I add, was the first country in the Americas founded out of European colonies--long before Gran Colombia).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from people on this subject that seeing a troll use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to rant about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]], how evil their government and national policies are, all because the English language does not kowtow to their personal expectations, \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is just as \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
Looking up [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=190.232.6.250 this guy\\\'s edits]] I see that he\\\'s been doing this very same thing on other article pages, too.
At \\\'\\\'AmericaWinsTheWar\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by CharredKnight):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:29 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->* HBO\\\'s \\\"The Pacific\\\" is full of this... It gives more importance to the war at the pacific that it ought and attributes heroism to a bunch of guys that won only because some Gay, I mean, Enola Gay, threw a major blastard into the fry... And yeah, I mean the Japanese were so superior at war that it ended when a frightened General said \\\"Just NukeEm\\\"
At \\\'\\\'IndependenceDay\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Caswin}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:11 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Changed lines 8 from:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome. What {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely aware of just how silly it is.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'To:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith, interestingly sounding much like Hitler) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome... Its so awfully nazionalistic its SnarkBait to many but to others what {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely unaware of just how silly it is.
At \\\'\\\'SnarkBait\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{DEFCON1}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 07:30 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 69:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*\\\'\\\'Independece Day\\\'\\\'. From the trash can of nazionalism gone to its worst it defines snark bait.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 80:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->* \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\'. Its the kind of garbage where Cerberus is degraded into Fluffy that justifies haters everywhere...
In \\\'\\\'ThrowAwayCountry\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Peteman}}):
-->03/Apr/10 at 06:18 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 85:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*** obviously the retards that created such a nazionalistic film couldn\\\'t care any better about geography, its HollywoodAtlas all over again, raised to eleven!
My guess is that these edits were written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]], [[FlameBait hateful]], and [[CriticalResearchFailure extremely]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark in all these edits, not to mention the repeated usage of the portmanteau of [[GodwinsLaw nazi + nationalism]] to describe \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' sort of pride Americans have for their country, or the rant on this article about the United States of America supposedly pretending that it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
My reason for that? Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent. They use the equivalent of \\\"United Stateser\\\" to refer to Americans in Spanish and Portugese. {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' bashing the United States with claims that it and everyone who lives there is {{Eagleland}} Type #2 ... and they do it because they neither know nor care that the English-speaking world refers to \\\"the Americas\\\" as \\\'\\\'two\\\'\\\' continents, and that the demonym for U.S. citizens (\\\"American\\\") developed naturally out of British usage for \\\"people of European descent living in British America\\\" dating back as far as the 1640s, \\\'\\\'[[OlderThanTheyThink before the nation was even founded]]\\\'\\\' (which, might I add, was the first country in the Americas founded out of European colonies--long before Gran Colombia).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from people on this subject that seeing a troll use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to rant about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]], how evil their government and national policies are, all because the English language does not kowtow to their personal expectations, \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
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-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \
to:
-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \\\"America\\\" as synonymous for their own country alone]]. This often happens because the [[BackedByThePentagon US military \\\'\\\'pays\\\'\\\' films to do so.]] If you show them in a very positive light, they\\\'ll let you borrow top notch military planes, ships, and tanks to film, which would normally cost you millions to get access to. So long as you make sure that evil military general is French, and the army that stops him aren\\\'t, you go a long way towards making your film within your budget. Not that this is an uncommon practice or restricted to the United States but it really makes you wonder.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is just as \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
Looking up [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=190.232.6.250 this guy\\\'s edits]] I see that he\\\'s been doing this very same thing on other article pages, too.
At \\\'\\\'AmericaWinsTheWar\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by CharredKnight):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:29 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->* HBO\\\'s \\\"The Pacific\\\" is full of this... It gives more importance to the war at the pacific that it ought and attributes heroism to a bunch of guys that won only because some Gay, I mean, Enola Gay, threw a major blastard into the fry... And yeah, I mean the Japanese were so superior at war that it ended when a frightened General said \\\"Just NukeEm\\\"
At \\\'\\\'IndependenceDay\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Caswin}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:11 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Changed lines 8 from:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome. What {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely aware of just how silly it is.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'To:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith, interestingly sounding much like Hitler) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome... Its so awfully nazionalistic its SnarkBait to many but to others what {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely unaware of just how silly it is.
At \\\'\\\'SnarkBait\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{DEFCON1}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 07:30 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 69:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*\\\'\\\'Independece Day\\\'\\\'. From the trash can of nazionalism gone to its worst it defines snark bait.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 80:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->* \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\'. Its the kind of garbage where Cerberus is degraded into Fluffy that justifies haters everywhere...
In \\\'\\\'ThrowAwayCountry\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Peteman}}):
-->03/Apr/10 at 06:18 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 85:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*** obviously the retards that created such a nazionalistic film couldn\\\'t care any better about geography, its HollywoodAtlas all over again, raised to eleven!
My guess is that these edits were written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]], [[FlameBait hateful]], and [[CriticalResearchFailure extremely]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark in all these edits, not to mention the repeated usage of the portmanteau of [[GodwinsLaw nazi + nationalism]] to describe \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' sort of pride Americans have for their country, or the rant on this article about the United States of America supposedly pretending that it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
My reason for that? Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent. They use the equivalent of \\\"United Stateser\\\" to refer to Americans in Spanish and Portugese. {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' bashing the United States with claims that it and everyone who lives there is {{Eagleland}} Type #2 ... and they do it because they neither know nor care that the English-speaking world refers to \\\"the Americas\\\" as \\\'\\\'two\\\'\\\' continents, and that the demonym for U.S. citizens (\\\"American\\\") developed naturally out of British usage \\\'\\\'before the nation was even founded\\\'\\\' (which, might I add, was the first country in the Americas founded out of European colonies--long before Gran Colombia).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from people on this subject that seeing a troll use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to rant about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]], how evil their government and national policies are, all because the English language does not kowtow to their personal expectations, \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is just as \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
Looking up [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=190.232.6.250 this guy\\\'s edits]] I see that he\\\'s been doing this very same thing on other article pages, too.
At \\\'\\\'AmericaWinsTheWar\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by CharredKnight):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:29 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->* HBO\\\'s \\\"The Pacific\\\" is full of this... It gives more importance to the war at the pacific that it ought and attributes heroism to a bunch of guys that won only because some Gay, I mean, Enola Gay, threw a major blastard into the fry... And yeah, I mean the Japanese were so superior at war that it ended when a frightened General said \\\"Just NukeEm\\\"
At \\\'\\\'IndependenceDay\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Caswin}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:11 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Changed lines 8 from:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome. What {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely aware of just how silly it is.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'To:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith, interestingly sounding much like Hitler) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome... Its so awfully nazionalistic its SnarkBait to many but to others what {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely unaware of just how silly it is.
At \\\'\\\'SnarkBait\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{DEFCON1}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 07:30 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 69:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*\\\'\\\'Independece Day\\\'\\\'. From the trash can of nazionalism gone to its worst it defines snark bait.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 80:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->* \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\'. Its the kind of garbage where Cerberus is degraded into Fluffy that justifies haters everywhere...
In \\\'\\\'ThrowAwayCountry\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Peteman}}):
-->03/Apr/10 at 06:18 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 85:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*** obviously the retards that created such a nazionalistic film couldn\\\'t care any better about geography, its HollywoodAtlas all over again, raised to eleven!
My guess is that these edits were written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]], [[FlameBait hateful]], and [[CriticalResearchFailure extremely]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark in all these edits, not to mention the repeated usage of the portmanteau of [[GodwinsLaw nazi + nationalism]] to describe \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' sort of pride Americans have for their country, or the rant on this article about the United States of America supposedly pretending that it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
My reason for that? Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent. They use the equivalent of \\\"United Stateser\\\" to refer to Americans in Spanish and Portugese. {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' bashing the United States with claims that it and everyone who lives there is {{Eagleland}} Type #2 ... and they do it because they neither know nor care that the English-speaking world refers to \\\"the Americas\\\" as \\\'\\\'two\\\'\\\' continents, and that the demonym for U.S. citizens (\\\"American\\\") developed naturally out of British usage \\\'\\\'before the nation was even founded\\\'\\\' (which, might I add, was the first country in the Americas founded out of European colonies--long before Gran Colombia).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from people on this subject that seeing a troll use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to rant about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]], how evil their government and national policies are, all because the English language does not kowtow to their personal expectations, \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
Changed line(s) 10 from:
n
-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \
to:
-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \\\"America\\\" as synonymous for their own country alone]]. This often happens because the [[BackedByThePentagon US military \\\'\\\'pays\\\'\\\' films to do so.]] If you show them in a very positive light, they\\\'ll let you borrow top notch military planes, ships, and tanks to film, which would normally cost you millions to get access to. So long as you make sure that evil military general is French, and the army that stops him aren\\\'t, you go a long way towards making your film within your budget. Not that this is an uncommon practice or restricted to the United States but it really makes you wonder.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
Looking up [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=190.232.6.250 this guy\\\'s edits]] I see that he\\\'s been doing this very same thing on other article pages, too.
At \\\'\\\'AmericaWinsTheWar\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by CharredKnight):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:29 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->* HBO\\\'s \\\"The Pacific\\\" is full of this... It gives more importance to the war at the pacific that it ought and attributes heroism to a bunch of guys that won only because some Gay, I mean, Enola Gay, threw a major blastard into the fry... And yeah, I mean the Japanese were so superior at war that it ended when a frightened General said \\\"Just NukeEm\\\"
At \\\'\\\'IndependenceDay\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Caswin}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:11 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Changed lines 8 from:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome. What {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely aware of just how silly it is.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'To:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith, interestingly sounding much like Hitler) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome... Its so awfully nazionalistic its SnarkBait to many but to others what {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely unaware of just how silly it is.
At \\\'\\\'SnarkBait\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{DEFCON1}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 07:30 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 69:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*\\\'\\\'Independece Day\\\'\\\'. From the trash can of nazionalism gone to its worst it defines snark bait.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 80:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->* \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\'. Its the kind of garbage where Cerberus is degraded into Fluffy that justifies haters everywhere...
In \\\'\\\'ThrowAwayCountry\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Peteman}}):
-->03/Apr/10 at 06:18 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 85:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*** obviously the retards that created such a nazionalistic film couldn\\\'t care any better about geography, its HollywoodAtlas all over again, raised to eleven!
My guess is that these edits were written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]], [[FlameBait hateful]], and [[CriticalResearchFailure extremely]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark in all these edits, not to mention the rant on this article about the United States of America supposedly pretending that it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
My reason for that? Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent. They use the equivalent of \\\"United Stateser\\\" to refer to Americans in Spanish and Portugese. {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' bashing the United States with claims that it and everyone who lives there is {{Eagleland}} Type #2 ... and they do it because they neither know nor care that the English-speaking world refers to \\\"the Americas\\\" as \\\'\\\'two\\\'\\\' continents, and that the demonym for U.S. citizens (\\\"American\\\") developed naturally out of British usage \\\'\\\'before the nation was even founded\\\'\\\' (which, might I add, was the first country in the Americas founded out of European colonies--long before Gran Colombia).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from people on this subject that seeing a troll use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to rant about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]], how evil their government and national policies are, all because the English language does not kowtow to their personal expectations, \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
Looking up [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=190.232.6.250 this guy\\\'s edits]] I see that he\\\'s been doing this very same thing on other article pages, too.
At \\\'\\\'AmericaWinsTheWar\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by CharredKnight):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:29 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->* HBO\\\'s \\\"The Pacific\\\" is full of this... It gives more importance to the war at the pacific that it ought and attributes heroism to a bunch of guys that won only because some Gay, I mean, Enola Gay, threw a major blastard into the fry... And yeah, I mean the Japanese were so superior at war that it ended when a frightened General said \\\"Just NukeEm\\\"
At \\\'\\\'IndependenceDay\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Caswin}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:11 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Changed lines 8 from:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome. What {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely aware of just how silly it is.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'To:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith, interestingly sounding much like Hitler) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome... Its so awfully nazionalistic its SnarkBait to many but to others what {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely unaware of just how silly it is.
At \\\'\\\'SnarkBait\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{DEFCON1}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 07:30 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 69:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*\\\'\\\'Independece Day\\\'\\\'. From the trash can of nazionalism gone to its worst it defines snark bait.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 80:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->* \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\'. Its the kind of garbage where Cerberus is degraded into Fluffy that justifies haters everywhere...
In \\\'\\\'ThrowAwayCountry\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Peteman}}):
-->03/Apr/10 at 06:18 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 85:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*** obviously the retards that created such a nazionalistic film couldn\\\'t care any better about geography, its HollywoodAtlas all over again, raised to eleven!
My guess is that these edits were written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]], [[FlameBait hateful]], and [[CriticalResearchFailure extremely]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark in all these edits, not to mention the rant on this article about the United States of America supposedly pretending that it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
My reason for that? Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent. They use the equivalent of \\\"United Stateser\\\" to refer to Americans in Spanish and Portugese. {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' bashing the United States with claims that it and everyone who lives there is {{Eagleland}} Type #2 ... and they do it because they neither know nor care that the English-speaking world refers to \\\"the Americas\\\" as \\\'\\\'two\\\'\\\' continents, and that the demonym for U.S. citizens (\\\"American\\\") developed naturally out of British usage \\\'\\\'before the nation was even founded\\\'\\\' (which, might I add, was the first country in the Americas founded out of European colonies--long before Gran Colombia).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from people on this subject that seeing a troll use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to rant about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]], how evil their government and national policies are, all because the English language does not kowtow to their personal expectations, \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
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-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \
to:
-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \\\"America\\\" as synonymous for their own country alone]]. This often happens because the [[BackedByThePentagon US military \\\'\\\'pays\\\'\\\' films to do so.]] If you show them in a very positive light, they\\\'ll let you borrow top notch military planes, ships, and tanks to film, which would normally cost you millions to get access to. So long as you make sure that evil military general is French, and the army that stops him aren\\\'t, you go a long way towards making your film within your budget. Not that this is an uncommon practice or restricted to the United States but it really makes you wonder.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
Looking up [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=190.232.6.250 this guy\\\'s edits]] I see that he\\\'s been doing this very same thing on other article pages, too.
At \\\'\\\'AmericaWinsTheWar\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by CharredKnight):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:29 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->* HBO\\\'s \\\"The Pacific\\\" is full of this... It gives more importance to the war at the pacific that it ought and attributes heroism to a bunch of guys that won only because some Gay, I mean, Enola Gay, threw a major blastard into the fry... And yeah, I mean the Japanese were so superior at war that it ended when a frightened General said \\\"Just NukeEm\\\"
At \\\'\\\'IndependenceDay\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Caswin}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:11 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Changed lines 8 from:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome. What {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely aware of just how silly it is.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'To:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith, interestingly sounding much like Hitler) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome... Its so awfully nazionalistic its SnarkBait to many but to others what {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely unaware of just how silly it is.
At \\\'\\\'SnarkBait\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{DEFCON1}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 07:30 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 69:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*\\\'\\\'Independece Day\\\'\\\'. From the trash can of nazionalism gone to its worst it defines snark bait.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 80:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->* \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\'. Its the kind of garbage where Cerberus is degraded into Fluffy that justifies haters everywhere...
In \\\'\\\'ThrowAwayCountry\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Peteman}}):
-->03/Apr/10 at 06:18 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 85:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*** obviously the retards that created such a nazionalistic film couldn\\\'t care any better about geography, its HollywoodAtlas all over again, raised to eleven!
My guess is that these edits were written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]], [[FlameBait hateful]], and [[CriticalResearchFailure extremely]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark in all these edits, not to mention the rant on this article about the United States of America supposedly pretending that it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
My reason for that? Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent, and {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' bashing the United States with claims that it and everyone who lives there is {{Eagleland}} Type #2 ... and they do it because they neither know nor care that the English-speaking world refers to \\\"the Americas\\\" as \\\'\\\'two\\\'\\\' continents, and that the demonym for U.S. citizens (\\\"American\\\") developed naturally out of British usage \\\'\\\'before the nation was even founded\\\'\\\' (which, might I add, was the first country in the Americas founded out of European colonies--long before Gran Colombia).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from people on this subject that seeing a troll use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to rant about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]], how evil their government and national policies are, all because the English language does not kowtow to their personal expectations, \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
Looking up [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=190.232.6.250 this guy\\\'s edits]] I see that he\\\'s been doing this very same thing on other article pages, too.
At \\\'\\\'AmericaWinsTheWar\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by CharredKnight):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:29 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->* HBO\\\'s \\\"The Pacific\\\" is full of this... It gives more importance to the war at the pacific that it ought and attributes heroism to a bunch of guys that won only because some Gay, I mean, Enola Gay, threw a major blastard into the fry... And yeah, I mean the Japanese were so superior at war that it ended when a frightened General said \\\"Just NukeEm\\\"
At \\\'\\\'IndependenceDay\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Caswin}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 08:11 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Changed lines 8 from:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome. What {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely aware of just how silly it is.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'To:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->Humans fight back, with U. S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith, interestingly sounding much like Hitler) and a computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.
-->Needless to say, this is one of the most [[{{Troperrific}} trope]]-[[ClicheStorm filled]] movies of all time. Which is not to say that it\\\'s not completely awesome... Its so awfully nazionalistic its SnarkBait to many but to others what {{Plot Hole}}s exist are [[FridgeLogic covered up]] with outstanding [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome visual effects]], likeable characters and just being honest entertainment. It falls just short of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on everything it can, while being entirely unaware of just how silly it is.
At \\\'\\\'SnarkBait\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{DEFCON1}}):
-->reason: none given
-->03/Apr/10 at 07:30 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 69:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*\\\'\\\'Independece Day\\\'\\\'. From the trash can of nazionalism gone to its worst it defines snark bait.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 80:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->* \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\'. Its the kind of garbage where Cerberus is degraded into Fluffy that justifies haters everywhere...
In \\\'\\\'ThrowAwayCountry\\\'\\\' (thankfully deleted by {{Peteman}}):
-->03/Apr/10 at 06:18 PM by 190.232.6.250
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Added line 85:\\\'\\\'\\\'
-->*** obviously the retards that created such a nazionalistic film couldn\\\'t care any better about geography, its HollywoodAtlas all over again, raised to eleven!
My guess is that these edits were written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]], [[FlameBait hateful]], and [[CriticalResearchFailure extremely]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark in all these edits, not to mention the rant on this article about the United States of America supposedly pretending that it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
My reason for that? Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent, and {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' bashing the United States with claims that it and everyone who lives there is {{Eagleland}} Type #2 ... and they do it because they neither know nor care that the English-speaking world refers to \\\"the Americas\\\" as \\\'\\\'two\\\'\\\' continents, and that the demonym for U.S. citizens (\\\"American\\\") developed naturally out of British usage \\\'\\\'before the nation was even founded\\\'\\\' (which, might I add, was the first country in the Americas founded out of European colonies--long before Gran Colombia).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from people on this subject that seeing a troll use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to rant about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]], how evil their government and national policies are, all because the English language does not kowtow to their personal expectations, \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
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-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \
to:
-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \\\"America\\\" as synonymous for their own country alone]]. This often happens because the [[BackedByThePentagon US military \\\'\\\'pays\\\'\\\' films to do so.]] If you show them in a very positive light, they\\\'ll let you borrow top notch military planes, ships, and tanks to film, which would normally cost you millions to get access to. So long as you make sure that evil military general is French, and the army that stops him aren\\\'t, you go a long way towards making your film within your budget. Not that this is an uncommon practice or restricted to the United States but it really makes you wonder.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
My guess is that this edit was written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]] and [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark about the United States of America pretending it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent, and {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' framing America as {{Eagleland}} Type #2 over their lack of perception that the English-speaking world has different concepts and terms for both the American continent\\\'\\\'\\\'s\\\'\\\'\\\' and what to call them (as well as what to call the United States).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals on this subject that seeing one of them use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to talk about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]] for the English language not kowtowing to Spanish and Portugese expectations (not to mention a few swings over national policy) \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
My guess is that this edit was written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]] and [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark about the United States of America pretending it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent, and {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' framing America as {{Eagleland}} Type #2 over their lack of perception that the English-speaking world has different concepts and terms for both the American continent\\\'\\\'\\\'s\\\'\\\'\\\' and what to call them (as well as what to call the United States).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals on this subject that seeing one of them use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to talk about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck]] for the English language not kowtowing to Spanish and Portugese expectations (not to mention a few swings over national policy) \\\'\\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates]]\\\'\\\'\\\' me.
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-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \
to:
-->A common cause of this trope is [[Main/{{CreatorProvincialism}} nazionalism]], and probably the most alarming aspect of it that explains how stunts as the war on Iraq could be pulled off. Few others countries apply it to the same extent, if any, no other countries go as far as taking [[HollywoodAtlas the word for a whole continent \\\"America\\\" as synonymous for their own country alone]]. This often happens because the [[BackedByThePentagon US military \\\'\\\'pays\\\'\\\' films to do so.]] If you show them in a very positive light, they\\\'ll let you borrow top notch military planes, ships, and tanks to film, which would normally cost you millions to get access to. So long as you make sure that evil military general is French, and the army that stops him aren\\\'t, you go a long way towards making your film within your budget. Not that this is an uncommon practice or restricted to the United States but it really makes you wonder.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
My guess is that this edit was written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]] and [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark about the United States of America pretending it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent, and {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' framing America as {{Eagleland}} Type #2 over their lack of perception that the English-speaking world has different concepts and terms for both the American continent\\\'\\\'\\\'s\\\'\\\'\\\' and what to call them (as well as what to call the United States).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals on this subject that seeing one of them use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to talk about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck for the English language not kowtowing to Spanish and Portugese expectations]] \\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates me]]\\\'\\\'.
-->Occasionally, even non-Usanian productions will refer to this trope (although usually to subvert it), but are also likely to have their \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' country save the day instead. Again because the audience will want to identify with the heroes and the actors available will be of that given nationality.
\\\"Less condescendence?\\\" [[BlatantLies Yeah, right.]] Let\\\'s be honest, this was an earnest attempt at demonizing real-life Americans while downplaying the idea that the trope is \\\"bad\\\" when used by works in other nations.
Thankfully, {{edenfalling}} took care of the \\\"Usanian\\\" parts, and a few of the other tropers have dismantled the introduction along the way. I\\\'ve gone ahead, though, and reverted the whole paragraph back to what it was before 190.232.6.250 got a hold of it.
My guess is that this edit was written by a Spanish or Portugese-speaking troll, given the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement unwarranted]] and [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignorant]] snark about the United States of America pretending it\\\'s the only nation on \\\"the continent.\\\"
Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals are taught that North and South America are one continent, and {{Single Issue Wonk}}s from those countries just \\\'\\\'love\\\'\\\' framing America as {{Eagleland}} Type #2 over their lack of perception that the English-speaking world has different concepts and terms for both the American continent\\\'\\\'\\\'s\\\'\\\'\\\' and what to call them (as well as what to call the United States).
Suffice to say, I\\\'ve seen so much [[CriticalResearchFailure ignorant ranting]] from Spanish and Portugese-speaking nationals on this subject that seeing one of them use this article\\\'s introduction as a [[AuthorTract Troper Tract]] to talk about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much Americans suck for the English language not kowtowing to Spanish and Portugese expectations]] \\\'\\\'[[BerserkButton infuriates me]]\\\'\\\'.
