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One of the easiest ways to look down upon another person is to make fun of their personal hygiene. This extends sometimes to entire nationalities. Thus, the '''Dirty Foreigner''' trope was born.
This trope is strange in that it, in particular, unlike the [[Funny Foreigner]], is a [[Discredited Trope]] at best, possibly verging on a [[Dead Horse Trope]], and is most often used today in subversion, as a quick and easy way to tell that a character has a prejudice against another group, and that character is usually painted in a negative light.
See also [[The Pig Pen]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]] begins wondering along the lines of this trope at one point in ''[[
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'''Yukari-sensei''': Yes..
'''Osaka''': [[Fridge Horror|Then what if they step on dog poop and go back inside home without noticing. What if the American dad, mom, brothers and sisters step on dog poop and go inside without noticing?]] }}
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* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[The Caves of Steel]]'' protagonist Elijah Baley notes that the Earth rhyme against the foreign "Spacers" (people who settled worlds besides Earth) always seems to include "Dirty Spacers", and that "dirty" seems to be a common insult against those you hate. Ironically, the Spacers consider Earth people as dirty, and are correct, as the Spacers have eliminated most communicable diseases and compared to them, Earth people are bags of disease and a danger to Spacers due to a mostly unused Spacer immune system.
** In addition, when Elijah Baley visits a Spacer world in the sequel, the bathroom is so clean it gleams (because it is cleaned by robots after every use and uses advanced materials) that he wonders how he will adjust when he had to go back to using communal bathrooms on Earth.
* Historical downtimers are treated this way in [[
* In [[Tom Sharpe]]'s novels, the mutual respect with which the two kinds of white South Africans look upon each other... both British-descended and Dutch-descended Afrikaaners will use the trope of soap-innocence to describe each other...
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* ''[[
* The very first line in ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' was an [[Orphaned Punchline]] about this.
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* This appears in various iterations of ''[[
== [[Radio]] ==
* ''[[This American Life]]'': in a bit by David Sedaris that takes place while he's living in France, on the French subway he [[Bilingual Backfire|overhears]] an ugly American [[Hawaiian
== [[Web Original]] ==
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