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* "Let's Play USA" by Peter Schilling (best known for "Major Tom")is a nasty Type 2 with a cheery pop beat.
* The Brazilian show ''Comédia MTV'' made a parody of type 2 named ""[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB780oK6F9M I'm American]", with the singers singing in English (with Portuguese subtitles).
* ''[[American Idiot]]'' by [[Green Day]], or at least the title track.
* "[http://www.venezuela.ch/cancionero/elnorteesunaquimera.html El Norte es una quimera]" ("The North is an illusion"), by Venezuelan composer Luis Fragachan. The lyrics are the lament of a person who goes to the USA to make their fortune after hearing the tales of people having success there, and fails so horribly they have to return to their country, lamenting how staying in America too much corrupts people and people who returns from the come with a swollen head. Close inspection of the lyrics suggest that the complains are mere [[Sour Grapes]] of a man from a quaint country that got overwhelmed by the modernity, the language barrier, and the inability to adapt to the new places costumes - said song was inspired by a friend of Fragachan that went to New York in the [[Roaring Twenties]] at the height of the Prohibition, and because the poor man came from the still very rural, booze-based socializing Venezuela of that same era, he couldn't overcame the [[Culture Shock]] and basically returned to embrace [[Patriotic Fervor]] and complain of every slight N.Y. inflicted on him. Many people doesn't get the joke and sing the lyrics straight.
{{quote|Todo el que va a Nueva York <ref> Every one who goes to New York</ref>
se vuelve tan embustero <ref>becomes such a liar</ref>
que si allá lavaba platos <ref>that if there he was a dishwasher</ref>
aquí dice que era platero <ref>here he says he was a silversmith</ref>}}
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