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Compare [[Life Will Kill You]] and [[Humans Are Bastards]]. [[Values Dissonance]] and [[Culture Clash]] are bound to come into play.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Vonda N. McIntyre's ''[[Thieves World]]'' short story "Looking for Satan". A group of people come to Sanctuary and find it appalling. This is not so unusual (Sanctuary is a [[Wretched Hive]] after all) but the reason is that the place they come from is idyllic: everyone lives together without jealousy or greed and with a [[Free
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* Inverted & played with in ''[[The Giver]]'' and ''[[Gathering Blue]]'': Jonas at first ''thinks'' that he's in a utopia, but it's actually more of a [[Crapsack World]]. The town of [[Gathering Blue]] thinks itself a utopia, but it really isn't.
* Inverted in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', with a traveler who considers Ankh-Morpork to be ''not'' crapsack because his own homeland is so much worse. Rude and obnoxious guards are celebrated for not torturing random innocents to death, and so on.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Doctor Who
== [[Music]] ==
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