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The Ugly American
1963 · Film · 115 min
Directed by George Englund
An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?
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I'd guess that "ugly Americanism" gets a lot of extra mileage just for being a play on the well-known pejorative "ugly American" (which also happens to be the title of a novel and a movie):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American_(pejorative)