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There appears to be a very strong bias in the United State/FAA land against overweight landings. It is generally not trained, or even discussed in training (in my experiance), while fuel dumping is in almost every checkride in airplanes so equipped.
Almost every bird I flew had fuel dumping. So, we had to go through the dumping drill in the simulator because it was a proficiency requirement that came with those types.
We didn't do overweight landings in the sim because it would have served no useful purpose.
But, starting after the first embargo in 1973, the company made it quite clear that landing overweight was the preferred course of action over dumping except perhaps with an engine failure or a missed approach OEI climb gradient issue.
From that time most crews at my company landed overweight as opposed to dumping fuel and no one ever heard from the FAA. In fact overweight landings had tacit FAA approval.