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{{quote|''"Americans are considered crazy anywhere in the world.
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''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.'
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''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."''|''[[—And He Built a Crooked House—]]'', '''[[Robert A. Heinlein]]'''}}
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A lot of weird news stories seem to take place in the [[The United States|United States of America]], giving a misleading impression that the place has more weirdness than average.
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While this isn't verifiable one way or the other, there are some possible reasons:
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* The US has a population of over 300 million, the third largest in the world, and largest first world nation.
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* Strong national belief in personal freedom, which has the unfortunate side-effect of encouraging idiots to do whatever they want.
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* People in America are a willing audience for the weird and slightly unusual. As one of our comedians, [[George Carlin]], put it, "If you're born on this planet you get a free ticket to the freak show; if you're born in America you get a front row seat."
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* [[Eagle Land|Every other country is boring, so no one cares about them]].
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** In other countries, you will see American TV shows along with locally produced TV shows. In America, you see American TV shows. Or sometimes [[British Series|British TV shows]], if you watch [[PBS]] or BBC America. Or an occasional—i.e., rare -- [[Canadian Series|Canadian TV show]] in the summer when nobody is watching. TV shows from other countries? Forget about it.
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** 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.
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*** 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 [[New York City]], [[Los Angeles]] and [[Washington DC]] invented to perturb them.
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*** Yet many of these same people will complain that those same crazy people in New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC treat their wonderful corner of the world as "[[Flyover Country]]."
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Often used [[Accentuate the Negative|negatively]] as a [[No True Scotsman]] fallacy, in which someone says something negative "can only be done in America", [[Hypocrite|regardless if any other part of the world]] [[Not So Different|can or has been subjected to it]].
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Compare with [[Vocal Minority]], [[Misblamed]], [[Double Standard]].<ref>in which a non American country or group that does something wrong will not be as vilified</ref> See [[Only in Florida]] and [[Only in Miami]] as a subset. See [[Eagle Land]] for the unfortunate image that results.
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Changing with time as an increasingly large number of "and finally..." stories derive from China and India (most of which are invented by newspapers), the two nations with, coincidentally, the first and second largest populations in the world, respectively.
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[[I Thought It Meant|This trope name does not refer to]] works that are only available in the US. That would be [[No Export for You]]. [[Self-Demonstrating Article|Only an American could make that mistake]].
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[[I Thought It Meant|Nor does it refer to]] [[Larry the Cable Guy]]'s television series of the same name.
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''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|...In AMERICA!]]''<ref>Actually, I'm Canadian.</ref>
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