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[[File:norseman.jpg|link=The Norseman|frame|One of them is not like the others (not the guy with no [[Horny Vikings|hat]]).]]

 

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

 

This trope comes into play when an actor is cast for a role in a historical setting who would appear to be of the wrong ethnicity to portray such a role, either because of racism in that period or because there simply were very few members of such ethnicity in the area at the time.

 

Subtrope of [[Politically-Correct History]]. See also [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]], [[Race Lift]].

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* [[OutKast|André 3000]] in the 2012 Gillette commercials "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOQ6ifFMVgQ Masters of Style]". He describes how he feels about various forms of facial hair, near the end he mentions a long beard makes him feel like a Viking.

 

* DNA analysis has recently suggested that not one but four or five African and Indian groups may be (as they claim) Lost Tribes of Israel. Besides the famous Ethiopian and Ugandan Jews who got airlifted by Israel in the 70s, a full-blown ''tribe'' in Tanzania recently got themselves tested to prove their claim that the tribe itself were a lost tribe of Hebrews, since the Roman era. (Being cut off, they didn't know any other Jews existed, so they adopted local language and customs.) And the Indian group had become a caste claiming Hebrew descent, although they had more contact with the west.

* [http://news.discovery.com/history/vikings-native-american-woman.html DNA analysis of Icelandic people] has recently revealed that the Norse may have brought back a native american woman with them to Iceland, well before Columbus. Native American Viking indeed.

* In a more recent example, Victorian Britain is portrayed as being completly white, yet Carribean people have been have been [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209204524/http://www.itzcaribbean.com/black_people_history.php living in Britain since slavery was abolished.] They are possibly overlooked because many people in power preferred not to mention them at all.

* African German [[wikipedia:Hans Hauck|Hans Hauck]] was a soldier in the [[Nazis With Gnarly Weapons|German Wehrmacht]] during [[World War Two]]. There were quite a few African Germans in Nazi Germany, either descended from people from the [[Imperial Germany|colonies]] or the children of black French soldiers from the 1923-25 Occupation of the Ruhr, so called Rhineland bastards. Indeed, as they were considered inferior and not fit for military service, but not a threat like Jews and Slavs, black Germans were more likely to survive the war than ethnic Germans.