This troper likes to make jokes about his college--Division III school that doesn't even have a football team, biggest claim to fame is recently passing Princeton as the ''most expensive'' school in New Jersey--but according to this week's issue of the school paper, our theological school is considered the most prestigious in the world in Korea. It all stems from it being the alma mater of a prominent missionary that visited Korea 130 years ago, apparently.

This troper can sympathize. The cooking school at which I was trained to be a chef is considered nothing more than a minor Vo-Tech school by the general public, especially since it exists in the shadow of two nationally known universities. But among chefs and restauranteurs, it's considered the best cooking school in the southeastern United States.

As can this troper, whose school is virtually unknown - until you get into the equestrian and pre-vet programs, which happen to be among the top three in the nation.

After visiting an aquarium with a bus full of japanese exchange students, I noticed how into Disney they all were. Someone pointed out a 'Nemo', and all of the exchange students started to squee. They then made refrences to 'Dory' and other charactors in the other exibits, and even taught us how to say 'I like to move it move it'(a la Madagascar) in Japanese. (It's ''Umedono Tsuki-tsuki'', if you wanted to know. Or, at least, that's what it sounded like. Correct me if I'm wrong.)

This explains a lot of KingdomHearts.

This tropette knew two DeviantArt members who were fangirls of Kyle from ''SouthPark''. The thing is, they're French. Apparently, Kyle is a popular character in France.

This troper, after submitting his email to a penpal site in China, seems to be finding himself more popular in the LandOfDragons than he is in Downunder}} his own homeland...

This troper knows how you feel. This troper did a similar thing and seems to be more popular in Korea and Japan than his own homeland as well. This troper tends to think he is more popular in Korea because he has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and some Hapkido training.

ThisTroper made an indie game that got a small bit of attention here in America, and... significantly more attention in the Czech Republic.

This Czech Troper would like to know what game that is.

Seconded, I'd really like to know which game are you talking about.

In most of the world, the DS outsells the PSP. When this troper went to the Philippines back in December 2006, he found that many of his relatives had [=PSPs=]. None of them had a DS. In fact, he saw exactly one person playing on a DS while he was there during his 2-week stay.

ThisTroper, an American, has one particular video on YouTube that has had more views in Germany than in the US. Yeah.

I have a similar story: My most succesful original fic has its strongest base...In Argentina

I've uploaded some videos of some weird hacked video games I've found. Most of my subscribers and views are from Chile and Spain, for some reason.

Some of the biggest fans of this troper's fanfiction starring some of the {{Marvel Universe}}'s more obscure characters hail from the Philippines and Sweden. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

A similar case: this troper has a very large portion (albeit the fourth largest part) of her fanfiction fanbase hail from...Denmark.

When this troper was in elementary school (about grade 3 or 4, can't remember), the teacher once asked whose home is DonaldDuck's weekly comic book ordered to. Every one (except one) out of over 20 raised their hands. It's just that big here in Finland.

This troper has a Chinese friend over MSN who is very into American television and music. Almost annoyingly so.

This troper has two Otaku friends who are way into anime and Japanese culture...and are Palestinian and Sudanese, respectively.

This troper has realized after reading and writing original fiction in the particular niche, that Brazilians seem to enjoy super heroes, or even non heroic people (mostly female), with Plastic Man style super powers. That is to say, the while pile of living goo aspect that 'Plas has, and not the stretchy human body aspect.

This troper was on an episode of a reality show. Pretty cool, and I did get a lot of American attention, but I swear if ANYONE ELSE from a Spanish-speaking country tries to add me on Facebook or Myspace, I'm going to kill someone. The Chileans especially seemed to love me.

This troper from Massachusetts is generally hated by the male population of her school. But when she went to visit her step-cousin in Mariland, boys flirted with her a lot. She wishes she knew why.

Maybe the guys at your school are all assholes.

For some reason, we see a lot of asian customers at Subway who are ''really'' excited to order Roast Beef. Almost all the time they're like "Beef! Beef! Beef!" and are smiling. It's not that good...do they not have roast Beef out there that often?

Putting something I learned today in my Modern China class to good use; beef (as well as cheese) isn't something Chinese people eat because raising cattle takes up too much land. Their main livestock are pigs, chickens, and ducks.

This American troper has lived overseas during two seperate World Cups, and has found this trope to be ubiquitous in soccer loving countries without a qualifying team of their own. In Jordan, for example, the majority of people he's met are rooting for the Argentinians or Germans.

This Troper is from OopNorth and when the book she was studying in English was WutheringHeights her parents agreed to take her to the place they said Emily Bronte had based the house on. Anyway there were loads of Japanese tourists who had come to see the moor, which is saying something as it's really isolated (and windy) up there and the nearest town (a very small, wet boring one) is an hour away at least from any cities.

This American troper is from the Deep South, and has an accent to match. The people there either don't notice or find it annoying, but when I visited relatives in Boston, almost everyone I talked to loved it.

Same for this Minnesotan troper. I've lived up here all my life, but my dad has a lot of family in Florida. Whenever we go down there, either my mom or I will have someone comment on our "accent".

An inversion, I'm a fan of the {{Asterix}} comics, but I'm pretty sure I'm the only one in America. You can blame my librarian Uncle for that.

Considering Asterix is probably one of the most well-known non-English European comics... yeah.

This swedish troper liked to read the BeetleBailey magazine and bought it whenever she came for a visit back to her homeland (they don't sell it where she lives). Guess her reaction to the lenght of the Trope-page of said comic. Apparently, Scandinavians Love Beetle Bailey enough for it to ''be pointed out on the comic's main page''. Once in a while they even release a separate mag that contains solely untranslated sketches from the Walkers' desks!

For me, it's Spaniards Love Hello Kitty. I've just returned from a vacation in Spain, and I gotta say, Hello Kitty was ''everywhere''.

My name is mymo, I'm spaniard and find that Hello Kitty is everywhere. And by everywhere I mean, from breakfast cereals to headphones. It's ridiculous. I hate Hello Kitty, if I got to Japan I'll murder the crap out the guy who created this abomination.

Robbie Williams is one of the best known pop artists in Europe and Latin America. In the USA he's only known by his neighbours.

May be stretching the definition of the trope, but this troper and his friend who has recently discovered that they are fairly popular objects of affection for the gay community at our school. There are at least ten guys at our (fairly small) high school who have crushes on each of us. Those are just the ones who've confessed to us.

This Troper's mom had recently returned from Mexico and told her a story about sitting at a bar and seeing everybody at the bar, including the bartender, transfixed on this one TV show. That show? IceRoadTruckers. Apparently, it's rather popular in Mexico from what she heard.

This Troper got a front-row seat to this. She used to have the most extensive GalaxyRangers fansite on the web. Half the fanmail about the site was in German. The three years of high-school and single year of college-level German helped greatly. And if it wasn't German, it was Brazilian Portuguese.

This Troper has an accent that is frequently mistaken for American. (I say I sound nothing like them.) When I was living in Singapore, most people thought I was weird and couldn't talk properly. Now that I'm living in Australia, people like my accent and consider it unique, and some their reactions somewhat bordering on FetishFuel.

This mexican troper has only recently found out that Cinco de Mayo is a big deal in the US, and is really baffled about this, since here it's just the commemoration of the Batalla de Puebla (Battle of Puebla), and even though it is a day off for some schools, there is no celebration of any kind. This troper has the theory that the popularity of that day may be due to the fact that Mayo sounds kind of like Mayan, and since the fifth of May is a commemoration in Mexico (although most mexicans won't even remember what about, just that it is a day off), it was considered as the ideal date for an ethnic celebration. Either that, or the popularity of the date is due to being the day after this troper's birthday, in which case, thank you very much, US, I'm flattered.

It's mostly popular in the US for the same reason why St. Patrick's Day is: it gives people an excuse to get drunk.

This Troper has asked two Japanese students what their favorite movies were. They were ScottPilgrim (which was somewhat understandable) and ''{{Armageddon}}.''

I'm an amateur writer, and while most of my work is in Spanish (so pretty much my fiction is read by people in many contries in the Hispanic Sphere) sometimes I write one thing or two in English (to appeal to a wider audience); so, yes, I have seen visitors from US, the UK...and then, I see that I have readers from the Caucasus region: Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia: They are not TOO MANY, I know, but surely they are over-represented compared to other countries (Australia, Canada, etc...); AND YES, I know it and I'm aware of it too: I'm not famous, but come one, I like to think I am in those exotic nations XD

This Troper was really shocked to find out that DrawntoLife isn't the case in Japan. The game's filled with cute, Japan loves cute, and yet, there is NO fanart. If you don't mind, I'll be trying to find a bomb shelter that has internet connection.

This (American) Troper once had a professor from Russia who admitted that the only reason he ever, '''''ever''''' learned English in the first place was so that he could watch ''RescueRangers'' in its native language.

This troper used to live in Indonesia. In his time there, he can conclude that CounterStrike is a very popular game there. Every single internet cafe there that he has been in (and he has been in a lot) have a CounterStrike application in every one of their computers.

This Tropers extremely popular custom made Cubeecraft template of Danbo, while popular in the states, has attracted more favorites from members in forgien countries like Australia, France, Spain, Canada and more, some I've ''never even heard of''. There oddly enough weren't any favorites from Danbo's native Japan, until I put it on Pixiv, where it's picking up pageviews fast. It gives a pretty good image of how internationally popular Danbo really is.

This English troper lived in Spain last year, and was amazed to discover that the Spanish are OBSESSED with Mr Bean. Could have something to do with their president looking quite a lot like him

This USA-an Troper has a lot of fanfic out there, but when fanfiction dot net installed the feature that allowed me to see where my hits were coming from, I found out a lot of my hits were from Finland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom. This resulted in two things: I found out Finnish is sexy, and I added an Icelandic ghost to the utter insanity that was the Danny Phantom fanfic I had going. I later found out her lines butchered grammar, but since in this particular fanfic the very premise was that being a ghost messed with your perception of time and the sequence of events, it made marginal sense. Or so one reader explained to me. He may have just been being nice.

This troper. To date, I've had a German girl, a Japanese boy, and two Iranian girls as part of my high school's exchange program. All of them have had at least one class with me, and all of them have become friends with me rather quickly. The fact that I avoid Flavor 2 of {{Eagleland}} with a violent passion, and that I'm rather open to all cultures kinda helps.

This troper remembers years ago when used to live in Japan where Disney is popular like everywhere else. Main page example like Stitch merchandise who always appeared in stores and arcades. One mention is Marie (the daughter cat) from ''TheAristocats''. Merchandise of her are commonly found and treated as part of the Disney Princess line.