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A [[Stereotype Flip]] in which a white person (usually a man, as the title suggests) sees himself as a victim of injustice or unkind behavior at the hands of minorities or [[Boomerang Bigot|turncoat whites]].
The '''Angry White Man''' type first appeared in large numbers in the mid-1960s, when "affirmative action" became official government hiring policy. This meant that a white person could experience "reverse discrimination" by being turned down for a job in favor of a member of a minority group, since the place of employment had quotas to fill and there already existed a proportionate number of whites. Now that affirmative action has been reformed so that economic status is taken into account as well as race, it isn't much of a controversy anymore—so the ire of the Angry White Man has shifted to less tangible targets.
He's frequently exasperated by [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|overly generous attempts to incorporate minorities into the modern American cultural fabric]] (or [[Politically-Correct History|not-so-modern]], for that matter);
Will as often as not be [[Played for Laughs|played for comedy]]. If not... [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|watch out]]!
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Figuratively, the character doesn't have to be white, or a man. The trope can apply to any type of character who is constantly railing against discrimination.
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The original prototype was probably Archie Bunker of ''[[All in The Family]]''—although, in fact, he was [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|a lot less angry]] [[Unbuilt Trope|than many of his successors]].▼
== Live-Action TV ==
▲* The original prototype (at least as far as American TV was concerned) was probably Archie Bunker of ''[[All in The Family]]''
* Older than Archie, but far more British (and possibly more extreme), was Alf Garnett of ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'', the English TV show on which [[Norman Lear]] based ''All in the Family''.
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[[Category:Race Tropes]]
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