Cultural Stereotypes: Difference between revisions

Hicks, rednecks, yokels, whatever the rural, unsophisticated folks in the country are called, you can expect to see a good number of jokes about inbreeding, general ignorance regarding technology or common manners, [[Racist Grandma|outdated socio-political ideals]], and far too much knowledge of [[But You Screw One Goat!|animal husbandry]] to be trusted. ''[[Blue Collar Comedy]]'' actually based its entire gag around this sort of joke.

== [[Comedy]] ==

Since they try to avoid just about all outside media, particularly television, movies, and the internet, the odds of an Amish person seeing a parody of themselves and getting offended is very low. Plus, y'know, funny outfits.

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

Related to [[Fantastic Racism]]. One way to explore racial or cultural themes is to create a fictional culture, and put it on the receiving end of all the abuse. In the short-lived ''Greg The Bunny'', puppets were a race who lived and worked alongside humans, and had to deal with epithets and other nastiness. The equally short-lived ''Cavemen'', and the long-running series of car insurance commercials that inspired it, worked similarly.

== [[Advertising]] ==

People with more money than you suck. There are a broad variety of ways that they can suck, but mostly it's because they have ''more'' than you do. They have more stock options than you, a bigger house than you, a fancier car, probably someone to clean up after themselves, and worst of all, they don't seem to be doing anything to ''fix'' that disparity! At the one end of the spectrum you have the heartless bastard rich guy, whose money might as well be literally coated with the blood of all the little people he's gleefully slaughtered to get where he is. At the other, you have the hopeless geek who's turned his geekiness into a business; he may have more money than you, but at least you can pat yourself on the back for not being a ''nerd'' like he is. Somewhere in the middle you have the snooty, know-nothing [[Upper Class Twit]]s; these are very popular, but not strictly necessary, as the rich are very rarely portrayed as having earned or deserving their money, even if they built the company that made it for them from the ground up with their own two hands.

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

Related to the above, but not strictly the same as it is more about being ''better'' than simply being ''richer''. At best a [[Blue Blood|blueblooded]] person might be portrayed as a [[Upper Class Twit|fairly nice but also useless and dimwitted]]. More often they will be portrayed as racist, bullying snobs. These types often have a built-in comeuppance; for all their arrogant conviction that they represent the pinnacle of humanity, they will usually be revealed to be completely broke, having wasted the family fortune and being left with literally nothing but their good names.

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

[[Da Ali G Show|Is it because it is black?]] White Rastas, white hip-hop fans/artists, etc. It never seems to matter if they were actually raised in that culture and just enjoying what they grew up around. White people should "act white," whatever that means. Becomes [[Unfortunate Implications]] if a white person who is loud, crass, and belligerent with a love for gaudy jewelry and ringtone rap is "acting black." Especially bad when the "wigger" in question (let's not get started on all the things wrong with that word) is not even white but Latino, Native, etc. Also consider that if a black character acts stereotypically "white," nothing is wrong with this, implying that, while whiteness is something to be aspired to, only someone who actually ''is'' black would enjoy the culture. In the real world, black people can share horror stories of ostracism and abuse by [[Malcolm Xerox|'real' blacks]] because they [[No True Scotsman|act 'too white']].

== [[Film]] ==

They're often called Weeaboos or Wapanese (a portmanteau of "white" or "wannabe" and "Japanese") The door swings both ways, but there are far less documented examples of Japanese Americanophiles.

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

While hating someone or assigning qualities to them based on skin colour is heinous, doing the same thing based on accent or language is perfectly okay. However, just because someone has an accent or speech impediment does not make them stupid.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* An episode of [[Dexter's Laboratory]] deals with a bully who "hates kids with funny accents". It turns on him in the end when he accidentally gets hit in the face and the bloating creates an accent for himself.

Although can [[Badass Long Hair|occasionally be averted nowadays]], men with long hair are usually portrayed as villains in any work they feature in, if not immediately then they are either a traitor or insufferably vain\stupid. Or both. Guys with long hair are generally given the shaft in films, they receive the most brutal deaths and are often singled out by the clean-cut bare-chested (ironically, bare chests in public are something else people who disprove of long hair on males tend to also disprove of) American hero for [[Disproportionate Retribution|disproportionate punishment]]. Think of any action film where the bad guys have lackeys with ponytails. Often seen as a cultural hate response to the hippy movement, but is often invoked by more recent generations too. There really isn't a reason for this hate beyond 'we aren't used to seeing guys with hair'. Strongly averted throughout history and in very many countries (including New Zealand and most of Europe).

== Film ==