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{{quote|'''Kida:''' His name's Simon. He's a Russian of African descent. He works as a tout for a Russian sushi shop here.~~<br />~~

{{quote|'''Kida:''' His name's Simon. He's a Russian of African descent. He works as a tout for a Russian sushi shop here.

'''Mikado:''' ... I'm sorry, but there are just so many things ''wrong'' with what you just said...|''[[Durarara]]'' (pilot episode)}}

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* Played for laughs in [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Love and Death]]'', with a shouting black drill sergeant in 1812 Russia.

* Played for laughs again in [[Woody Allen]]'s ''Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were too Afraid to Ask'', with a black sperm standing among all the white sperm about to be ejaculated.

* In ''[[Kingdom of Heaven]]'', one of the knights in the group lead by Liam Neeson's character at the beginning appears to be of African descent. Considering that the group travels to and fro the Middle East at the time of the Crusades, it's not exactly unthinkable.

* Invoked in-universe in ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'' when Dugan notices that a POW, is Asian. Dugan asks "Are we taking ''everyone'' now?" The Asian man, Jim Morita, flashes his dogtags and says [[Justified Trope|"I'm from Fresno, Ace."]] Japanese-Americans who were born in the USA ''were'' allowed to fight, though they did so in segregated units. The circumstances of the film presumably made Morita's presence in Captain America's unit an exception, though this is never brought up.

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** The current scientific theory is the Black Irish are the only (racially) Celtic Irishmen. Other hair colors? Scandinavian—genetically, [[Mind Screw|the Irish are Germanic (and the English are Celtic)]]. One theory holds that the "Tuatha de Danaan" were actually proto-''Danes'' who'd settled in Ireland, and were later conquered by Celts (called "Milesians" in the legends) from Iberia.

* The [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/living/article7042984.ece "Ivory Bangle Lady"]; a high-status black woman who received a lavish burial in [[Oop North|4th century York]]. The ''Times'' states:

{{quote| Archaeologists have discovered that wealthy black Africans lived in Roman Britain in one of the country's earliest examples of multiculturalism. "Analysis... contradicts assumptions about the make-up of Roman-British populations as well as the view that African immigrants were of low status... The link between slavery and Africans is an early modern one. In the Roman world this simply was not the case. Slaves in Roman times could come from any area." ... African men had immigrated to Britain, invariably with the Roman Army, and had brought their wives and children. "We're looking at a population mix which is much closer to contemporary Britain than previous historians had suspected. [[Aluminium Christmas Trees|In the case of York, the Roman population may have had more diverse origins than the city has now."]]}}

{{quote|Archaeologists have discovered that wealthy black Africans lived in Roman Britain in one of the country's earliest examples of multiculturalism. "Analysis... contradicts assumptions about the make-up of Roman-British populations as well as the view that African immigrants were of low status... The link between slavery and Africans is an early modern one. In the Roman world this simply was not the case. Slaves in Roman times could come from any area." ... African men had immigrated to Britain, invariably with the Roman Army, and had brought their wives and children. "We're looking at a population mix which is much closer to contemporary Britain than previous historians had suspected. [[Aluminium Christmas Trees|In the case of York, the Roman population may have had more diverse origins than the city has now."]]}}

* Population mixing due to trading and warfare has been much more extensive during the last two millennia than popular media would leave us to know. For example, in southern Egypt and northern Sudan live, until our present day, [[wikipedia:Magyarab|tribes of either Black or Arabic-looking ''Magyars'']], thousands of miles away from Hungary... all [[For Want of a Nail|because the Ottoman Turks recruited a military unit of Magyars]] in the 16th century to fight in Egypt.

* The thing is, back in those days, travellers from far-off lands were ''assumed'' to be exotic. So they'd be just as fascinated by one foreigner as another, regardless of where they're from; see [[City of Weirdos]].