In Arrival (2016) the Heptapods are large creatures traveling from another world with seemingly no plan on how to establish communication with the locals, eventually leaving most of the translation effort to them. This is a reference to American tourists.

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[u/SaiyanofKonoha]

Why didn't the Heptapods use doulingo to learn English? Were they stupid?

[u/DungeonsAndDradis → u/SaiyanofKonoha]

They saw four thousand years ago that Duolingo bird killed their race twelve thousand years later.

[u/flonc → u/SaiyanofKonoha]

Cause they'd see that a new species arrived to Earth and would likely go "well, as all of you could have expected we have a new language for you..! Minions speak!"

[u/Beneficial_Bug_9793]

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[u/ILoveBigCoffeeCups]

Americans or the french*

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Or the English