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Contrast [[Eagleland Osmosis]], where the influence of another country's media (chiefly the United States') causes people to do this to their ''own'' society. See also [[Values Dissonance]], which is perhaps the most compelling reason why this [[Trope]] doesn't work.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The [[Opening Monologue]] of ''[[Code Geass]]'' makes a big deal about how the Britannian Empire has suppressed Japanese culture. However, the school system we see has almost nothing in common with the British system; it's really just the Japanese system with funny uniforms.
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** It could arguably make sense in the case of Mulder, seeing as he went to college in England (though he never says anything in the show to give one the impression he adopted British culture to any degree). Scully, however, has no excuse.
*** Ironically, the opposite would be true of their actors. Gillian Anderson spent some of her formative years in England and slips into a British accent easily in real life, while David Duchovny has lived all his life in the States.
* In an amusing inversion, the 1990s-vintage ''[[Shadowrun]]/[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' [[Crossover Fic|crossover]] ''[http://members.optusnet.com.au/bcadwgan/anime/wolf1.txt A Wolf in Crisis]'' was written by an Australian, and his explicitly Seattle-born-and-raised shadowrunner and his familiar spirit ''both'' rattle off Aussie slang and ''Shadowrun'' argot, but almost never use any genuine American slang.
* ''[[Eiga Sentai Scanranger]]'' sure likes to talk about its main character's love of Asian culture, but since he never actually demonstrates any knowledge of Asian culture (at one point the realization that people in Tokyo would speak Japanese falls on him like Dorothy's house on the Wicked Witch of the East) one kind of gets the feeling the author thinks of Asia as the same as America but with better TV shows, sushi and samurai.
* [http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9187871.html This] fanfic-rant. Who could think, and yet...
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