But Not Too Foreign: Difference between revisions

 

Some examples can be non-native, due to the thousands of races in the world, and we don't just marry people of the same race anymore. Compare [[But Not Too Black]] and [[Halfbreed]]. May also overlap into [[Twofer Token Minority]]. Overlaps with [[Plays Great Ethnics]] in [[Real Life]].

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* Eleanor "Erina" Mercer from Kensoh Ogawa's H-manga ''Honey Blonde'' was born to English parents, and fits the "Gaijin Girl" stereotype (large chest, tall, blonde as per the series title) as far as appearance is concerned. However, early in the first chapter, it's established that she is "completely Japanese on the inside," albeit with particularly bad performance in English class. Mostly, this is due to her having sex instead of studying, though her usual partner doesn't have any trouble at all.

* [[Storm]], of the ''[[X-Men]]''. The "all-new, all-different" relaunched X-Men were international, patching whatever foreign character had already appeared with some newly introduced characters, and Storm was the token African (Kenyan). After some issues {{spoiler|this was retconned in making her father an Afro-American whom she forgot after a plane crashed in the Cairo house where she was staying with her family.}}

* Here's something most readers of [[Archie Comics]] and likely many of the people who produce them nowadays are unaware of: Jughead Jones is Native American. Or, at least he was. In his initial appearances, he was depicted in the stereotypical stoic, chiseled look typical of the 1940s. This quickly gave way to his familiar look by the early 1950s, but scattered references to his original ethnicity persisted, amazingly, until at least the 1980s. Some of it could just be chalked up to Jughead's [[Cloudcuckoolander]] nature (in one story he whips up a rain dance, causing a thunderstorm just to get out of work), but other references were harder to ignore; Reggie in particular was fond of giving Jughead nicknames such as "Big Chief Gross Beak" and "my Aboriginal amigo", which made no sense to people unfamiliar with the character's background. While no comment has been made on this issue for a while (and Jughead's family, once they were established, were pretty definitely white), it stands as a bizarre series of [[Depending on the Writer]] [[Early Installment Weirdness]] [[Call Back|CallBacks]].

 

== Fan Fic ==

 

== Film ==

** It's worth pointing out that Martin was fully white in the novella on which ''The Searchers'' was based, and that his ancestry was tweaked in [[The Movie]] to give Ethan some [[Character Development]].

* Balraj in ''[[Bride and Prejudice]]'' is Indian but raised in England.

 

== Literature ==

* Every main character who isn't pure Chinese in ''[[Literature/Breaking The Walls|Breaking The Walls]]'' can be considered this. For example Pearl Bright, leader of the current generation, is half-Chinese half-Hungarian Jew.

* A book based on the TV show ''[[I Spy]]'' and set in Japan included the wealthy "personage of quality" (so described by a hotel waiter) Vladimir Takahashi, a mix of Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Greek. He looked mostly Japanese, but with blue eyes, and a further shocker when he spoke was his Oxford accent.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* In ''[[24]]'', the suicide bomber in Day 8 is half-Middle Eastern (in this case, his father is from [[Qurac|Kamistan]] who married an American woman).

* Religion example, instead of nationality example: Abed and Annie in Community, who originally identified themselves as, respectively, Muslim and Jewish, were each revealed to have one Christian parent, making them both just Christian enough to participate in the annual Christmas episode without creating any inconvenient complications.

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* Released wrestler James Yun (A.K.A. Jimmy Wang Yang) is half-Korean and half white American. His first gimmick in the WWE was a Japanese bodyguard with mafia ties and he was a heel. His [[Heel Face Turn]] came when he downplayed his Korean side and embraced his "redneck" ties (albeit ''Chinese-American'' redneck ties!). His attire changed from simple black pants to a wifebeater, cowboy hat, blue jeans and Confederate Flag emblems. (Interestingly, the [[Real Life]] persona of Yun is very close to that of Wang Yang, as it combines a fondness for "traditional" American culture with [[The Theme Park Version]] of the Far East.)

* Inverted with Gail Kim during her run in WWE around 2004-ish where she was billed as being from Korea when she was born and raised in Toronto (but with Korean ancestry).

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' uses this trope as a plot point. The character Emily Eupraxus Washington was inducted into the ancient Roman Eupraxus bloodline, who are treated as the figureheads of the [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Invictus]] Covenant. Emily's half-Japanese, and is portrayed as an ineffectual ruler and [[Moe|moe blob]]. The plot is that the elder Invictus are largely racist feudal Europeans, but they dare not act against their crown jewel. The younger Invictus, on the other hand, love Emily because her combined lineage and bloodline show that the Invictus is capable of [[Society Marches On|adapting to the modern world.]] [[Wild Mass Guessing|Allegedly,]] the Japanese ancestry also pleases a [[Occidental Otaku|large part of the fan base.]]

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** Similarly, there's Fiona and Duncan, who we find is a Fereldan in Orlais in the books. The former was a slave sold to an Orlesian noble.

* [[Assassin's Creed III]] is a rare western example. The main character, Connor Kenway (birth name is Ratohnhaké:ton) is half Native American, half British.

 

== Visual Novels ==

*** Possibly not, since we've only seen Nanase's father in one panel and it's not clear what his background is. Given how traditional Nanase's mother is, it's likely that Kitsune (a Japanese name) is her father's name.

* Soo from [[Long Term Roomies]] is 1/4 American and 3/4 Arab (though exactly where is never clarified). Her name works in both cultures because Americans assume it's spelled 'Sue' and her family know its short for Sooraya.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[The Batman]]'' version of Mercy Graves is reportedly this. Perhaps it's because of the casting of a Singaporean Chinese.

* In ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' Phoebe has a Japanese dad and a white mom. Her father as well because while he looks ethnically Japanese, his last name, Heyerdahl, certainly isn't.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==