My Tele is American. It was new in box. It didn't come with a strap or cable. It did have the polishing cloth, which the Rascal didn't have.
I'm stuck in bass-mode and forgot that you play Tele 6 strings. It's been a few years since I bought a new instrument, (I never thought I would ever be buying another instrument, new or used anyway) and that is one of the costs that manufacturers have saved by not including cables and straps in case candy that wasn't that way when I was still buying before. That stuff turns a hefty profit as a music store add-on. I hate having to buy something really cool, like a new bass, and then having to buy something else to use it. It's minor and since FMIC stopped including straps and cables to save a buck, you know that Gibson is working on a way to leverage the idea as a feature into some kind of upcharge for Les Paul guitars: the new Gibson Signature Les Paul Monster Cable Edition, yours for only $5k.
I got a fantastic MIA (I hope) instrument for the price and it scratches a tonal itch I never thought was possible outside of finding a used Wal in a pawnshop or music store that had no idea of its value and I am very happy with it while simultaneously feeling sad that such a good instrument never found its market. There are plenty of Gibson bass bombs whose market rejection was understandable. The EB's really isn't, but such is life. My EB is light years above the the 2015 T-Bird I tried out recently which makes me think that the failure will eventually be blamed on the new design pickups and bridge and Gibson will go back to only making TB+ for bass. A successful second bass pickup line would pave the way for true Sidewinder or Low Z remakes, but the market has spoken and the market says that Gibson is only allowed to make SG's, T-Birds, and hollowbodies all using the same pickups. Too bad.
