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== Films -- Live Action ==

{{quote|'''Fat Cowboy:''' ...Looks like a ''Jap'' to me.

'''Toothless Cowboy:''' Naaaw. He's Chinese.

* Quite a few of Chris Tucker's lines throughout the ''[[Rush Hour]]'' series refer to this, along with every other crude Asian stereotype in the book.

* In ''[[Brain Smasher A Love Story]]'', the Chinese assassination team is constantly having to say, "We are ''not'' [[Ninja]]s!" They are happy the one time someone else says it first. "They're not ninjas. They're Chinese." So happy that they don't beat any one up there.

* The Zero Gravity short film ''[http://zgmain.com/chacha.html Cha Cha Chinaman]'' drops this in at the beginning of Part 2.

* Some people criticized ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha]]'' for casting Chinese and Korean actors in Japanese roles.

* ''[[The Pacific]]'': episode nine features angry confrontations over the rights of the Okinawan civilians versus the Imperial Japanese soldiers ("A Jap's a Jap!" one Marine protests).

* ''[[Lost]]'': Happens in-story several times to Sun and Jin, who are Korean. Hurley refers to them as "the Chinese people" before he learns their true nationality. A flashback to the airport reveals a white couple making a reference to ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha]]'' (Japanese) in relation to them. Also, in "This Place is Death," when Jin asks Charlotte to translate, knowing that she speaks Korean, Sawyer assumes he means Miles (Chinese) and encourages him to help, to which [[Deadpan Snarker|Miles]] replies "Dude, he's Korean, I'm from Encino."

* ''[[Get Smart]]''

** Inverted in an episode when an Asian villain, The Craw ([[Japanese Ranguage|no, not the Craw, the]]''[[Japanese Ranguage|Craw!]]''), and his henchmen try repeatedly to kidnap a visiting [[Norse by Norsewest|Scandinavian]] [[Everything's Better with Princesses|princess]], but keep getting the wrong woman because all white people look alike.

* Invoked in ''[[Guilty Gear]]'': Anji Mito is a Japanese person (in this "verse," their race was almost wiped out in a war with the eponymous Gears, and are placed in protective colonies throughout Asia supposedly for their own safety) who takes up the guise of a Chinese person in order to travel freely.

* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'''s Mothership Zeta expansion, Paulson (a 19th century cowboy) refers to Toshiro Kago (a 16th century [[Samurai]]) as a "Chinaman" until he is corrected.

* [[Blizzard Entertainment]] offended its Chinese fans by giving the Pandaren—a race of humanoid pandas in [[Warcraft]]—a Japanese-ish culture (complete with samurai) in concept art. Pandas are the national animal of China (and the only place in the world where they can be found wild), so the offense taken is understandable. Blizz quickly changed this and gave the race Chinese markings.

* ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' has a douchey dialogue option claiming this for Jensen to say while in China.

'''Bill''': The ocean? What ocean?

'''Kahn''': From Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in Southeast Asia between Vietnam and Thailand, population approximately 4.7 million!

'''Kahn''': D'oh! }}

** Subverted with Hank's father, Cotton Hill, who is able to identify Khan as Laotian without ever being told. His experiences in World War II likely helped. He is very racist and goes so far as to identify Khan as Laotian by ''smell'', and then immediately assumes he's Hank's servant.

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