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"Fellow American" because this is a scene from / reference to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Where Bogart played an American in Mexico, trying to chase a gold rush but finding only and oversaturation of ill-fated wealth-seekers like himself. Thus being a class of poverty-stricken citizen in a foreign land, trying to rely on other Americans taking sympathy on him to get by. He ends up asking the same person this question three times, leaching a quarter off of him all three times, while probably aiming to spend it all on booze, but inevitably getting paired up with the primary plot of the film.
Just, you know, FYI.
