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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has at least one scene where Ed is shown to be eating rice out of bowls with chopsticks in what is otherwise based on early twentieth century Europe.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' series
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** The Agatean Empire, as featured in ''[[
** Uberwald is, well, [[Überwald]], but Bonk's chocolate museum and mad fretwork that make the buildings look like cuckoo clocks sounds more like the Black Forest. Fat soup was inspired by a signing tour in Poland, and the Unholy Empire's crest parodies that of the Russian Empire
** [[Word of God]] describes Ankh-Morpork as a cross between Renaissance Florence, 18th century London, 19th century Seattle and 20th century New York. (This is a simplification - it also has elements of 19th and 20th century London, post-Imperial Rome, medieval Prague, and pretty much any other city with some interesting stories attached to it.)
* All over the place in the [[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]], but [[Justified]] by the peculiarities of a humanity's Diaspora to the stars.
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** Markerterion is definitely [[Spexico|California meets Spain]], with a pinch of New Orleans and Kalamazoo.
** Mantith perhaps averts this trend, given that all the nations on it are direct parallels to real Earth cultures, just heavily stereotyped around those nations' [[The Seventies|Seventies cultures]], albeit, [[Schizo-Tech|with some 21st century anachronisms]]. Even so, caves feature [[Commie Land]] and [[Überwald]] cultures of [[Our Vampires Are Different|Mosquatlons]] and [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Aviatets]].
* ''[[Dune]]'' is a completely justified example - while it is less chop suey and more cultural broth, it is reasonable to assume that after so long in the stars, all the cultures that have been subsumed into the Sublime Padishah Empire will mingle - although there is a heavily pronounced
* The civilization of the Masters from ''[[The Stone Dance of the Chameleon]]'' comes across as a mixture between [[Ancient Grome|ancient Rome]] and [[Mayincatec|indigenous South American people]].
Ythrians. There is also some Icelandic influence in the extreme decentralization of Ythrian politics which is bolstered by regular assemblies that are a combined courtroom, legislature, and festival much like the Althing was. Humans have qualities that resemble perhaps Oregonian pioneers having as much government as humans need but no more, but being less chaotic then the normal old west stereotype.▼
▲*On Avalon in the [[Technic History]] the eagle-like Ythrians share the planet peacefully with humans. There is some Celtic influence including the Arthurian names and the tribalism of the Ythrians. There is also some Icelandic influence in the extreme decentralization of Ythrian politics which is bolstered by regular assemblies that are a combined courtroom, legislature, and festival much like the Althing was. Humans have qualities that resemble perhaps Oregonian pioneers having as much government as humans need but no more, but being less chaotic then the normal old west stereotype.
* The Klingons as portrayed from ''[[The Next Generation]]'' onward combine about 50% each of Viking and Japanese Samurai culture. Essentially, they are Viking Samurai [[In Space]]. With forehead ridges. (In the original series they appeared to be about 50/50 Russian and [[The Thief of Bagdad|Thief of Bagdad]] Persian stereotypes, although there was little to no cultural exploration at all.)▼
* The ''[[Firefly]]'' 'verse is a case of Culture Chop Suey, but it's not really an equal blend of Western and Chinese culture; rather, it's a [[Space Western]] where the characters supplement their English dialogue with (bad) Mandarin, eat Chinese dishes as well as Western ones, and in some cases (like the Tams) have Asian-ish surnames but look white.▼
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▲* The Klingons as portrayed from ''[[The Next Generation]]'' onward combine about 50% each of Viking and Japanese Samurai culture. Essentially, they are Viking Samurai [[In Space]]. With forehead ridges. (In the original series they appeared to be about 50/50 Russian and ''[[The
▲* The ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' 'verse is a case of Culture Chop Suey, but it's not really an equal blend of Western and Chinese culture; rather, it's a [[Space Western]] where the characters supplement their English dialogue with (bad) Mandarin, eat Chinese dishes as well as Western ones, and in some cases (like the Tams) have Asian-ish surnames but look white.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' loves this for the non-European based areas of its settings. The "Middle East" tends to be a blend of Turkish, Persian and Arabic influences, and the "[[Far East]]" Japanese and Chinese.
** Hey, [[Medieval European Fantasy|the European areas are usually no exception either]].
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[The
** Some of the individual cultures play the trope straight: Azure City is a mix of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean elements, while the Western Continent has Arabic, Babylonian, and African pieces mixed together (along with lizard-people).
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[
** That game, ''Dash Dingo'', is a clear and surprisingly accurate parody of ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'', which was at the height of its popularity. ''The Simpsons'' is pretty good at averting [[Pac-Man Fever]].
* Sokka from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' carries a boomerang, despite his Water Tribe culture being largely based off of the Inuit people.
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