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A media trope where non-American works absorb stereotypical ideas about the United States.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The show's take on American high school is a textbook case of that trope."
LORE & ORIGIN
A TV Tropes-coined name for the pattern where creators outside the US, without deep firsthand knowledge, portray America using secondhand stereotypes absorbed from other media.
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2026-09
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