[lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so?

This is America. We're bloodthirsty, crazed, ready to invade--Everywhere! Anywhere! Anything--at the drop of a nosedrip, and 
we''ve got CSI tv shows in every city in the country, to boot.


At least for the Brazilians I spoke with, the reading of America is in the background of the action. They don't think Clint Eastwood or Bruce Willis is the representative American; rather these arrogant cowboys are the *exceptions* to the timid bureaucratic and ineffectual schmoes in the background. The poll-obsessed mayor who thwarts Dirty Harry and all the mayor's staff...these are where some look to see the Americans. The hero-type is the exception, and usually that heroic exception has to resign or become hunted himself before he can solve a case without the constraints of ... those people in the background, who by force of numbers in every action-drama, are the Americans they show.

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