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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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