# Is "the Boorish American" a stock character in British/European film?

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-boorish-american-a-stock-character-in-british-european-film/538028/77 "2010-05-05T04:31:11Z")

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> [@Kylede](#):
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> When Europe needed someone to save them from the over-expansionist Gemany twice in the last 100 years, who did they look to? Maybe next time someone rolls tanks across a border, maybe they should look to someone else??/

Firstly: The US missed almost all of WWI. Secondly: Hitler had given up on invading Britain after the Battle Of Britain. Thirdly: Japan only invaded most of South-East Asia because they wanted the raw materials which the US had embargoed.

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