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A band of non-white natives dwelling far off the beaten path in some exotic who have ... unusual ... dietary requirements and complex social structures revolving around them, and who view the appearance of wayward white explorers in much the same way [[The Simpsons (animation)Homer Simpson]] would view a box of donuts arriving on his doorstep under its own power. In short, this is the [[I'm a Humanitarian]] trope bought in bulk so the storyteller can pass the savings on to you, and set in an exotic location for that special something extra. Expect to see lots of blood and Europeans tied to (or run through by) a spit while turning over a fire.▼
▲A band of non-white natives dwelling far off the beaten path in some exotic locale who have ... unusual ... dietary requirements and complex social structures revolving around them, and who view the appearance of wayward white explorers in much the same way [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]] would view a box of donuts arriving on his doorstep under its own power. In short, this is the [[I'm a Humanitarian]] trope bought in bulk so the storyteller can pass the savings on to you, and set in an exotic location for that special something extra. Expect to see lots of blood and Europeans tied to (or run through by)
The '''Cannibal Tribe''' trope plays into the remaining [[Acceptable Targets]] status of primitive peoples, pointing a finger at them and declaring how dangerous such vicious savages are to poor, innocent white people who don't mean anyone any harm. Note that in the very few real life examples that exist, when cannibalism wasn't a last-ditch response to a starvation scenario, it was usually reserved for ritual/religious purposes, such as the classic case of consuming (part of) a defeated enemy to gain his strength in an act of sympathetic magic. There are no reliable accounts of groups that "harvested" other nearby humans as a regular part of their diet, and [[Fridge Logic]] indicates that such a tribe would quickly either run out of "livestock" or be wiped out by its neighbors.
Sub-trope of [[I'm a Humanitarian]]. Compare/contrast [[Cannibal Clan]], which is more or less the non-racist version of this trope, where the cannibals are typically white-trash types suffering from an advanced case of backwoods degeneracy.
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== [[Film]] ==
* The entire [[Cannibal film]] genre, a slew of chiefly Italian movies made during the 1970s and 1980s which had a distressing sameness in their plots:
** ''[[The Man From Deep River]]'' (1972) was the first Italian cannibal film and introduced the notions of white people being trapped in cannibal territory, exotic rituals, white-native sex and Me Me Lai and Ivan Rassimov. It was mostly a rip-off of the 1970 Richard Harris western ''[[A Man Called Horse]]'' with cannibalism thrown in.
** ''[[Last Cannibal World]]'' (1977). four plane passengers are stranded in a jungle, the brown-skinned members of the group die quickly, the main character is stripped, fondled and urinated on and watches the natives kill first one of their own using bull ants and then a crocodile. He escapes using Me Me Lai, who helps him survive before being eaten by the pursuing tribe.
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