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Europeans In The Quiet American

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The distinction in which Americans and Europeans are portrayed in the movie The Quiet American is very evident. The United States is often seen as a young and vital country with much less history than the European continent. In the movie this distinction is depicted by Thomas Fowler, a British journalist and Alden Pyle, a young American in Vietnam who represents the United States. Fowler is an older man, he learned from his mistakes and cannot pick a side in war torn Vietnam, while Pyle is young and full of energy and courage as can be deducted by the scene in which he went to Phat Diem in a boat and nearly got shot. So the movie shows the stereotypical way of how Europeans and Americans are represented.
If we look at the movie with the idea
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