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A subset of [[National Stereotypes]], these examples deal with people who were born into the position they are currently in. Not in a sense of nationality or ethnicity, but their general cultural background. It is normally possible for someone to make a conscious choice to stop being one.

'''The Rural Poor'''

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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see a good number of jokes about inbreeding, general ignorance regarding technology or common manners, [[Racist Grandma|outdated socio-political ideals]], and far too much knowledge of [[But You Screw One Goat!|animal husbandry]] to be trusted.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.

'''The Amish'''

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.

'''Cultures That Don't Really Exist'''

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.

'''Cultures That No Longer Exist'''

Related to the above. As [[The Nostalgia Chick]] put it in her review of ''[[Mulan]]'', it’s not as if the Hun lobby is going to make a lot of complaints. (Unless you're Mongolian.)

* Common example of [[Did Not Do the Research]] - the Mongolians and the Huns, despite having similar characteristics (horse-riding, conquering nomads), were two different cultures.

'''Cultures That Do Exist, But Are So Faint On The Global Radar That You Can Get Away With Picking On Them'''

Examples: Roma (Gypsies), isolated tribes of all types, people from countries that are so small (Luxembourg, for instance) that they're never spoken of in the news media

'''The Wealthy'''

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.

'''Aristocrats, Gentry and "Old Money"'''

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.

== [[Comedy]] ==

'''Whites Interested In Aspects Of Black Culture'''

[[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']].

'''Non-Japanese interested in Japanese culture'''

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.

'''[[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!|Wannabe Gangsters]]'''

'''People who talk funny'''

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.

'''Males with long hair'''

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).

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== The Rural Poor ==

=== [[Comedy]] ===

* Hell, [[Jeff Foxworthy]] has based his ''career'' around this joke!

* [[The Two Ronnies]] used a lot of old Irish Jokes recast as Yokel jokes. As Ronnie B put it, no one has yet written in a complaint letter starting ''"Dear Sir, I am a Yokel"''.

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** Mississippi is the apparently the [[Butt Monkey]] of the United States. We do the same in Arkansas.

== [[Film]] ==

=== [[Film]] ===

* Of course, NASCAR fandom has a lot of crossover with this, along with the "your hobby isn't cool enough so we mock you" sort of acceptable target. A good example of this is the elitist smirking that a lot of people attach to the reception of ''[[Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby]]'' in the South, which is to say quite positive. Since those doing the stereotyping decided to interpret the movie as a vicious [[Take That]] instead of an [[Affectionate Parody]], the usual statement is that rednecks and NASCAR fans were too stupid to realize they were being made fun of. The idea that these people might have not only gotten the joke, but still thought it was funny, never seems to cross these reviewers' minds.

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

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

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Tara's rural family is portrayed as pure, undistilled redneck stereotypes. The one family member initially shown to have at least some attractive qualities turns out to be a female with decidedly retrograde notions of male-female roles in society. Oh, and the men perpetuate a totally fabricated family myth to keep the women in the family down. All in all, a grand slam for rural stereotyping.

** Or perhaps they were just bastard [[Control Freak|control freaks]]. Riley was from a small-town in Iowa and was portrayed in a fairly positive manner.

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* Camden, the setting of ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' started off as a typical rural-south town. Although it ''did'' have a trailer park (and a few zany characters therein), it wasn't too over the top. By Season 4, it underwent [[Flanderization]] into a bizarre and backwards [[Cloudcuckooland]].

== Video Games ==

=== Video Games ===

* In the first ''[[Lunar]]'' game, the citizens of a town called Meryod were on the receiving end of non-stop inbreeding/pervert/"backwards"/drunk jokes from our heroes. There was exactly one guy in the town who hit on Mia, and they all had ridiculously exaggerated southern dialect, but other than that there was not much justification for the ridicule. (Granted, most of the ridicule was from Nash, who's an elitist bastard anyway, but he wasn't called on it...)

* In the ''[[Fallout 3]]'' [[DLC]] [[Deep South|'Point Lookout']], one branch of enemies are... Well, [[Refuge in Audacity|grossly exaggerated]] hillbilly stereotypes. They live in run-down wooden shacks. They dress in torn workers' jeans. They are hideously deformed by inbreeding. Their mental capacity has devolved to the point where they can only speak short sentences (in thick dialects, of course) and [[Dumb Muscle|attack everything that moves]], wielding double-barrel shotguns, [[Ax Crazy|axes]] and [[Shovel Strike]]. They brew moonshine. [[I Am a Humanitarian|They eat people.]] Also, they are registered in the games programming as creatures rather than NPC's

== [[Web Original]] ==

=== [[Web Original]] ===

* While [[Accentuate the Negative]] is his general style, [http://joshreads.com/ Josh Fruhlinger] (aka [[The Comics Curmudgeon]]) seems to reserve a special level of contempt and disdain for the newspaper comic ''[[Pluggers]]'', which typically chronicles the exploits of older, more rural individuals. Each one is rephrased as a way to say that such individuals are, among other things, alcoholics, abusers, morons, or occasionally racists.

** And don't forget all the meth labs and cross burnings in [[Snuffy Smith|Hootin Holler]]!

** As well as the denizens of [[Mark Trail|Lost Forest]]—which is rather bizarre, since these days, [[Green Aesop|over-the-top environmentalism]] is more generally associated with elitist, middle-to-upper-class liberals.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel, who else?

* [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|The Kanker Sisters]] seem to qualify - three loud, boorish girls who live in a trailer park, [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|are noted to have three different fathers]], have a [[Comedic Sociopathy|startlingly]] [[Dysfunction Junction|dysfunctional]] family dynamic, and seem to have no problems whatsoever bullying random children. And when it comes to how they interact with the Eds... Well, the censors may have been stoned at the time.

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* [[South Park|Kenny's family]] as well in universe as by the show itself.

== The Amish ==

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

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'''The Amish'''

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]] ==

* And very tastefully subverted in the documentary ''The Devil's Playground'', about the Amish practice of "rumspringa". The jury's out on whether the same can be said for the one season only reality program "Amish in the City".

* On ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', Earl is solving an item on his list related to this: taking advantage of [[Naive Everygirl|young women]] from a nearby Amish-like village (which is now facing a shortage of women, seeing as Earl and Randy showed them what they were missing!) The village is described as being ''so'' extremely Luddite that even ''the wheel'' is looked upon as an abomination.

== [[Music]] ==

=== [[Music]] ===

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg Amish Paradise]."

== [[Western Animation]] ==

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Pinkie Pie]]'s boring, rock-farming family, seen in a flashback in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", paint a rather unflattering portrayal of the Amish as being dark, gloomy, serious farmers who don't know what having fun means. Of course, this is ''[[Unreliable Narrator|Pinkie Pie]]'' we're talking about...

* And turned on its head in ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode 'Funny, You Don't Look Rhennish'. The reason why the [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] Rhennish are rural poor? {{spoiler|They're ''not'' living on a pile of valuable minerals.}}

* In one episode of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' Dexter is sent to an Amish farm. They're depicted as boring simpletons who live in the middle of nowhere. They freak out when they see a light-bulb, calling the titular character a witch.

== Cultures That Don't Really Exist ==

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=== [[Advertising]] ===

'''Cultures That Don't Really Exist'''

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]] ==

* An Australian advert had an Olympic athlete from the fictional country of "Robota" receiving his gold medallion while mistakenly serenaded (in place of a National Anthem) with the tune, "Row Row Row Your Boat".

== [[Comedy]] ==

=== [[Comedy]] ===

* ''Slobovia'' is a fictional country which can be used as a substitute in almost all ethnic jokes, made famous by Canadian DJ Mike Cooper and his ''Stoopid Joke of the Day'' on 680 CFTR. Can even be used to make religious jokes.

** Originated in Al Capp's ''[[Li'l Abner]]'' newspaper cartoon during the Cold War as "Lower Slobbovia", a parody of Siberia, as being worse than the hillbilly town of Dogpatch.

== [[Comics]] ==

=== [[Comics]] ===

* [[Dilbert]]'s company seems to like to do a lot of outsourcing to Elbonia.

== [[Film]] ==

=== [[Film]] ===

* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'': "I ''hate'' toons!"

** Though, that's most likely because they can be really annoying.

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* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' takes everything about dragons and deconstructs it in front of you. And Hiccup himself deconstructs this for everyone in the film not named Hiccup.

== [[Literature]] ==

=== [[Literature]] ===

* "Brungaria" is the equivalent from at least one of the Tom Swift books.

* C. H. Dalton's ''A Practical Guide to Racism'' has a chapter covering Merpeople.

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

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* [[Ruritania|Non-existent Eastern European countries]] are a particular favorite, including Latka Gravas's home country on ''[[Taxi]]'', Balki Bartokomous's Mypos on ''Perfect Strangers'', and ''Borat'' 's fictitious Kazakhstan, which shares its name with an actual country. ''[[Dilbert]]'' 's Elbonia is at one extreme with inhabitants who are barely human, while Genovia in ''The Princess Diaries'' seems to be a prosperous, modern duchy except for its antiquated lws of inheritance.

*** The real [[wikipedia:Kazakhstan#Education|Kazakhstan]] is not as backwards as the movie one, and in fact counts as a developed nation (GDP per capita > $10,000).

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** An animated example would be Pottsylvania from the ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' series.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===

* [[Dungeons and Dragons]] players have been known to use kobolds as [[Acceptable Targets]] for pseudo-ethnic jokes. (Q: What do the kobold invaders arm their siege catapults with? A: Volunteers. Twang-zoom-splat, another one bites the dust ... )

== [[Theatre]] ==

=== [[Theatre]] ===

* This was done in ''[[Avenue Q]]'', with the furry monster puppets being the race that doesn't really exist. However, not all the abuse is heaped on the monsters- Gary Coleman and Christmas Eve get their fair share.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'''s supporting cast member Rolf fits into this Trope quite nicely.

== The Wealthy ==

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

'''Cultures That No Longer Exist'''

Related to the above. As [[The Nostalgia Chick]] put it in her review of ''[[Mulan]]'', it’s not as if the Hun lobby is going to make a lot of complaints. (Unless you're Mongolian.)

* Common example of [[Did Not Do the Research]] - the Mongolians and the Huns, despite having similar characteristics (horse-riding, conquering nomads), were two different cultures.

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'''Cultures That Do Exist, But Are So Faint On The Global Radar That You Can Get Away With Picking On Them'''

Examples: Roma (Gypsies), isolated tribes of all types, people from countries that are so small (Luxembourg, for instance) that they're never spoken of in the news media

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'''The Wealthy'''

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]] ==

* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''. The members of the Host Club (especially [[Upper Class Twit|Tamaki]]) are depicted as well-meaning, but [[The White Prince|hopelessly out of touch]] with the middle- and lower-classes. For example, they regard instant coffee and instant ramen as interesting novelties, and the Hitachiin brothers mistake Haruhi's description of a kiddie pool for that of an inflatable raft.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

=== [[Comic Books]] ===

* ''[[Batman]]'': Bruce Wayne is another famous aversion, particularly in that he ''didn't'' do anything to earn his phenomenal wealth, but uses it so responsibly he gets a free pass.

** Averted by the movies, in which Bruce Wayne is shown as a very active participant in the day-to-day activities of Wayne Enterprises, using the corporate name and resources not only to continue being rich but also for philanthropic purposes and (covertly) to support his mission as Batman.

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*** To put it bluntly, Stark was more or less someone who was continuing the family trade. However, like his father before him, he did not just inherit the job and sit back to let the profit roll in. Since he was in the weapons business, he also designed and built the next generation and the upgrades which means that while he did inherit a lot of money, he also earned a good deal of it himself as well.

== [[Film]] ==

=== [[Film]] ===

* Notably averted in the movie ''[[Meet Joe Black]],'' wherein Anthony Hopkins' character is fabulously wealthy with a huge mansion on an enormous estate, but is portrayed as a morally upright, likable family man who worked hard for everything he has.

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===

* Similarly averted in ''[[Little Orphan Annie]]''. Daddy Warbucks, while something of a hardass, is also treated with respect as he's worked his way up from poverty and donates to worthy causes. Plus Annie manages to get him to soften up some.

** Aside from the allusion to war profiteering in his name.

** The positive portrayal of the wealthy is very intentional, the original author [[wikipedia:Little Orphan Annie#Controversy|was highly conservative]] and consequently a huge fan of the self-made businessmen. He used his spite instead on things like labor unions and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|New Deal programs]].

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

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

* An early episode of ''[[Monk]]'' featured the "clueless geek" type winding up murdered because he was trying to help an old college friend that he didn't know was screwing his wife. This was actually a bit of a twofer, since you had the "lame nerd" rich guy ''and'' his evil, conniving rich wife.

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' featured a contest to determine the "Upper Class Twit of the Year."

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** When's the last time you saw anyone on ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' who wasn't either guilty of something or protecting a family member who was?

== [[Real Life]] ==

=== [[Real Life]] ===

* [[Michael Moore]] is often accused of this.

* Thomas Guthrie, ''Man and the Gospel'' (1865) "You may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." (A similar sentiment has been attributed to [[Dorothy Parker]], but it seems to be a misattribution, and anyway, Guthrie definitely said it first.)

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** Of course, other companies are just as guilty of the very same questionable business practices and monopolizing of Microsoft, even (or especially) the more popular or beloved competitors. Yet, they don't get as much flack or will even have vehement defenders declaring any accusation blasphemy. Like it or not, like the man or not, he IS still disproportionately more targeted.

== [[Web Original]] ==

=== [[Web Original]] ===

* Most of the Goodkind family in the [[Whateley Universe]], and ALL of the Walcutts.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Mr. Burns]].

* Somewhat averted with [[DuckTales|Scrooge McDuck]]. While he's undoubtedly a cheapskate and an anti-social curmudgeon, he has been shown to have earned his money through a combination of back-breaking work and challenging expeditions. Also, while he doesn't give generously to general charities, when he personally comes across someone he feels is deserving, his generosity tends to be overflowing.

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{{quote|'''Mr. Pewterschmidt''': (about the fur coat he just gave his wife) Well, it's not real fur. It's actually made from bald eagle, and it's weather-treated with a mixture of whale skin oil and children's tears.}}

== Aristocrats, Gentry and "Old Money" ==

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

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'''Aristocrats, Gentry and 'Old Money''''

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]] ==

* This seems to be inverted in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Flamboyant [[Uncle Pennybags|Auntie Pennybags]]/RichBitch Yukihiro Ayaka is all you can expect from the daughter of a major ''[[Mega Corp|Zaibatsu]]'' and then some. Then we find out that said rival's roommate, the somewhat spacey but rather good-natured Konoe Konoka, happens to be one of ''those'' Konoes and despite [[Modest Royalty|living in an ordinary dorm room]] calls a [[Big Fancy House|massive estate in Kyoto]] her family home.

** [[Big Fancy House]]? More like Big Fancy ''Temple Complex''.

== [[Film]] ==

=== [[Film]] ===

* One of the ultimate examples of this is Lady Constance in ''[[Gosford Park]]'', an utterly horrible, snobbish, snide and mean-spirited aristocrat who looks down on anyone who doesn't have a title, despite the fact that she's probably the most useless character in the entire movie possessing no trade, skills or abilities whatsoever - she can't even open a flask of coffee by herself. She's also a total hypocrite, seeing as her fancy title was actually 'bought' for her, her brother being a wealthy industrialist who supports her.

== [[Literature]] ==

=== [[Literature]] ===

* Granted, this may be because they are pretty much the only group with any power to cause trouble outside of lone madmen sparking some chaos. [[Discworld|Vimes]], who despises aristocrats despite reluctantly becoming one (although not as much as he hates vampires or the specific rank of king), has made it clear that the poor are no different from the rich and powerful except they have no money or power. That is, there is nothing inherently bad about those at the top, except for the fact that being at the top allows them to cause wide ranging trouble most poor people cannot; similarly, the poor who grumble about the rich abusing their wealth and power would be no more unlikely to similarly abuse such wealth and power if they possessed it.

== [[Real Life]] ==

=== [[Real Life]] ===

* Oddly enough, use of this acceptable target is one of the few times you might see the "Wealthy" acceptable target above treated sympathetically. The old gentry will be disdainful of "new money", giving the "salt of the earth done good" wealthy person a chance to monologue on how "Money doesn't make good people!"

* I cannot help noticing that we mocked "yokels" (the poor) at the top of this page, and now we are mocking different varieties of the rich just as vehemently. An extraterrestrial perusing this page would conclude that Earthlings tend to scorn anyone who isn't perfectly middle-class.

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*** Well, the bourgeois middle-class usually does get it too. Typically they're [[Too Dumb to Live|clueless]], arrogant, hypocritical, and typically [[Strawman Political|biased against everyone not like themselves]]. And that's if they're ''white''. If ''not'', they're also a [[Straw Traitor|traitor to]] [[Unfortunate Implications|their own]].

== [[Video Games]] ==

=== [[Video Games]] ===

* Mint Blancmanche in the ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]'' games is targeted by her [[Evil Counterpart]] because her money comes from her parents' business dealings, and his comes from very old inheritance. Of course, in [[Galaxy Angel (anime)|the anime]], she's a heartless brat, and she takes ''great'' pleasure in extorting Anise in ''Galaxy Angel II''.

== [[Web Original]] ==

=== [[Web Original]] ===

* For the most part, the "old money" crowd is treated as a bunch of inhumane, amoral [[Jerkass]]es who don't give a fig for the rest of humanity in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]''. One of the regular themes was a heroic scientist creating some amazing breakthrough that made him "new money" wealthy, and then having to deal with the "old money" types sneering at them.

== Whites Interested In Aspects Of Black Culture ==

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'''Whites Interested In Aspects Of Black Culture'''

[[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]] ==

* Clint Eastwood does it hilariously and memorably in [[Gran Torino]] when he successfully intimidates a group of black gangsters and a "wigger" nearby cheers, Clint growls "These guys don't want to be your brothers, and I don't blame them!"

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

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

* ''[[Da Ali G Show]]'': Ali G dresses a hip-hop artist, speaks in American hip-hop vernacular with a British accent, lives in Staines (a wealthy London suburb figuratively a million miles from South Central LA), and is a complete idiot. A large part of the humour of his character us the dissonance between his imagined gangsta image and the reality of being an ignorant fool from a mundane part of Britain.

== [[Music]] ==

=== [[Music]] ===

* Eminem got the [[Moral Guardians]] riled up when he came into the rap picture, which eventually raised a racial [[Double Standard]] on how blacks can sing this "devil music" but whites singing it is just blasphemy.

** But [[Moral Guardians]] have been after all rappers.

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* Just watch the video for The Offspring's "Pretty Fly (for a white guy)".

== Non-Japanese interested in Japanese culture ==

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

* Pretty viciously portrayed in one of the faux-documentary interviews in ''[[Otaku no Video]]''.

=== [[Web Original]] ===

'''Non-Japanese interested in Japanese culture'''

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]] ==

* Pretty viciously portrayed in one of the faux-documentary interviews in [[Otaku no Video]].

== [[Web Original]] ==

* This is especially evident on [[Deviant ART]] where anyone who even shows even the ''slightest'' interest in anything Japanese-related are labeled as "Wapanese".

** Heck, just try and type words like "Kawaii" (which means "cute") or "Chibi" (which means "little") anywhere on [[Fun with Acronyms|DA]] and you're pretty much guaranteed to get either "SHUT UP! You don't know Japanese!" or "You're ruining the language!" as a response.

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*** ...so you'll have the weeaboo [[Hatedom]] insulting and mocking you, and possibly also the actual weeaboos blowing a fuse at you for not using [[Fangirl Japanese|Japanese 'properly]]. See also 'Glorious Nippon'.

== [[Real Life]] ==

=== [[Real Life]] ===

* This is often seen in college students who immerse themselves in Japanese culture and not only do so but actively tell everyone why you being an American suck. Some take it so far as to judge you for daring to watch a foreign film from Japan without learning Japanese so that you can understand what the characters are saying instead of, gasp, using subtitles or dubbing.

* Alternatively, Japanese language majors are often assumed to be frothing fanboys/girls, regardless of whether they're just starting out or capable of ripping you apart in honorific form.

== People who talk funny ==

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=== [[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.

'''[[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!|Wannabe Gangsters]]'''

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'''People who talk funny'''

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.

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'''Males with long hair'''

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~~ ==

== Males with long hair ==

=== Film ===

* ''[[Die Hard]]'' The [[Acceptable Ethnic Targets|Germans]]

* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' we really aren't spoiling anything by pointing out the traitor here....