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{{trope}}
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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* 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...
== [[Live
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Anya punishes a philanderer. When his girlfriend wishes he was a frog, Anya makes him French. Now he smells.
* The very first line in ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' was an [[Orphaned Punchline]] about this.
{{quote|'''Lewis''': ...and that's why the French don't wash.}}
* This appears in various iterations of ''[[Star Trek]]'' as a stereotype of Klingons; Starfleet crewmen make racist jokes about Klingon
== [[Radio]] ==
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