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May be used when [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] would be far more plausible.
Of course, people like this do exist in [[Real Life]], although probably not to the extreme degree that they do in fiction; some people, for whatever reason, just don't get out much, listen to the radio, or watch the news. In addition, people with [[Autism]] or [[Aspergers Syndrome]] may not understand acceptable forms of behaviour due to the very nature of their conditions.
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* Another example, although less blatant, is Brennan from ''[[Bones]]''. Although she's focused primarily on her work, she displays a remarkable ignorance of current culture, which is odd given that she clearly wasn't always like that (she's a ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' fan, likes classic rock, but still has no idea what's in any movie or TV show released in the last 20 years).
** The novels were eventually [[Justified]]. Apparently Brennan is so Culture Blind that she didn't realize people were reading her books for the sections of them that Angela wrote rather than her [[Irony|rigorous]] [[The CSI Effect|scientific]] [[Dan Browned|accuracy]].
* Michael Scott from the American version of ''[[The Office]]'' could be this trope's poster child. His misunderstanding of other races and cultures is massive.
* Sheldon Cooper in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''. Although some of that could be because he's a) an example of [[Comedic Sociopathy]] and b) a long way along the Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale,
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== Web Comics ==
* Riff from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' apparently didn't know that people get weekends off from work. It's somewhat [[Justified Trope|justified]] since he had never worked a 9-to-5 job before, but even so that seems like something he should have picked up from TV or something.
* Much like Ash, Atticus from the Pokémon fancomic ''[[
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