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Since there are so many countries and cultures in the world, it's not surprising that there are so many different outlooks on life -- what's important, ''who's'' important, what constitutes justice and what qualifies as cruelty changes according to where you are. Even in countries that speak the same language, values can be different. The UK and the US for example, share a language and are regarded as culturally similar to one another... but handguns are legal in the US, while they are banned in the UK. The UK also has no death penalty, while many States in the US do (though some have banned it; one of the more recent bannings being Illinois's). This leads to some fundamental differences in the way the legal system is perceived, even between two countries that are supposedly alike.
Sometimes, the difference is even closer to home. A show where the death penalty for a criminal is a good ending in a state that accepts such a measure may not be as accepted as such in a state that frowns on execution, assuming your home is in the USA. With the multicultural nature of many places, sometimes a trope only has to go down the street to become completely unrecognizable. Differing religions, backgrounds or life experiences can mean that a person's view of a trope differs from the "standard" the trope is derived from.
Other tropes find it difficult to age gracefully. The world being the dynamic and evolving place that it is, some aspects of the media don't quite manage to keep pace with the time, and become [[Discredited Trope|the "Grumpy Old Men" of Tropeland.]]
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An example of [[Values Dissonance]] between the United Kingdom and the US would be the use of blackface imagery, which formed the centrepiece of the [[BBC]]'s ''[[Black-and-White Minstrel Show]]'' until the 1970s. Blackface was/is also used in other countries, such as Japan, The Netherlands, and Australia, where it does not have the same cultural stigma.
'''WARNING: By its nature, this trope is highly controversial. You may well encounter a custom or belief on this page that you don't think is dissonant at all; you might even be inclined to vehemently defend it. Indeed, concepts of right or wrong or even of what is "proper" are rarely universal in the truest sense of the word. Across all the advanced civilizations of Earth's history, just about anything has been or can potentially be justified, or at least rationalized. So if you see an example here that you disagree with, please refrain from [[Conversation in the Main Page|adding your own interpretation]]. If you think an example is biased one way or another, please start a thread on [[Talk:{{PAGENAME}}|the discussion page]] and get multiple opinions on the matter before making a change.'''
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