I saw someone comment that Wanda started out as this radicalized Eastern European teenager who despised American capitalism so it's a contradiction that she seems obsessed with US TV And I'm like You haven't met many people fitting that description have youhttps://twitter.com/jeannette_ng/status/1358066774609178624 …
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Sure, Wanda and Pietro had a much more specific and salient reason to hate America But in general a lot of anti-American resentment stays raw, on an emotional level, just from global pop culture constantly reminding you you're in the margins and the US is in the center
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America had far worse sins in the 90s than making everyone in the world have to know the "Whassup" meme and the lyrics to "I Want It That Way" of course But that's what rubs it in
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Just as everyone in the world knows who the US President but many Americans don't know a single foreign leader Knowing that Star Wars and Marvel Comics and The Simpsons are more important to everyone in the world - *including you* - than anything your own country ever made
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Anyway the whole love/hate thing is core to WandaVision The whole point is that from the beginning this paradise is alluring but also repulsive It's sexist, it's corny, it's regressive, it's stiflingly flat and conformist and fake
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It's everything part of you despises about American culture while another guilty part of you longs for it You despise it *because* you long for it and you long for it because you despise it
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That's just how it feels for Americans, for foreigners plugged into this stuff it's amplified 1000%
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I had a prof in college who came from Argentina and said that as a radical leftist teen he always unconsciously believed in "the sitcom version" of America This unexamined assumption from coast to coast the US was filled with suburban households with lawns and cars and 2.5 kids
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It was very easy to resent America by thinking of America as the imaginary paradise advertised by Americans' comfort food TV And he said when he came to live here it genuinely rocked his worldview to see how huge the gap between fantasy and reality was
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