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== Anime & Manga ==

 

== Film ==

* Played straight and then averted in ''[[The Killing Fields]]''. The first half of the movie shows the American reporter Sydney Schanberg trying to escape from Cambodia in 1973. In the second part, Dith Pran - Sydney's Cambodian interpreter - finds himself stranded in Cambodia and caught up in the genocide. This is notably one of the few films in which a native of the country in question is allowed to become the film's protagonist.

* ''[[The Quiet American]]'' (2002) is largely about the rivalry between a young American man and an older British man for the affection of a Vietnamese girl. This soap-opera takes place against the backdrop of civil conflict in 1950s Vietnam.

* ''[[Blood Diamond]]'' partially subverts this by having an African among its main characters, but most of the perspective is provided by a Western journalist.

* Averted, strangely enough in the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film of the same name, where the editor states from the off-set that he does not want another Foreign Correspondent in Europe. He sends a crime reporter instead, who ''still'' gets embroiled in the start-up to [[World War II]].

* Raymond Burr as reporter [[Name's the Same|Steve Martin]] in the US cuts of the original ''[[Godzilla]]'' and ''Godzilla 1985''.

 

== Literature ==

* Not quite every one of their novels is like this, but a large percentage of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene novels are like this.

** For example ''The Quiet American'', mentioned above, as well as ''Our Man in Havana'', in which the foreign correspondent is a vacuum cleaner salesman in pre-Castro Cuba.

* Many of the books of Paul Theroux and [[Bill Bryson]]. The latter even manages to do it while travelling in a country he lives in, or where he spend his early years.