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* John Blackthorne from James Clavell's ''[[Shogun]]'' is an English sailor shipwrecked in old Japan. Unlike his shipmates, he decides to learn the language and cultural skills needed to fit into the unfamiliar society, and eventually decides that it's preferable to the society he came from in a number of ways. He's no [[Mighty Whitey]]: he has a ''lot'' of difficulty learning the new ways, becomes only moderately competent, does not impress people, and is usually irrelevant.

* Liet-Kynes and later Paul Atreides and Jessica adopting the Fremen ways in ''[[Dune]]''.

* Quite a few of [[Rudyard Kipling]] 's India stories are an exploration of the concept.

* In [[George Orwell]]'s early novel, ''Burmese Days'', Flory admires Burmese culture more than he does his own, and despises the British Empire. It looks like he might be going this route, but the trope is subverted when {{spoiler|he takes command of the police and breaks up a riot intent on destroying the Club and killing Ellis}}.

*In [[1632]] Uptimers and Downtimers go native with each other. Uptimers intrigue as much as any small state while some of them go so far as to marry into nobility and take titles. Downtimers in the meantime start adopting uptime technology. The effect is the same as if a new conqueror had arrived on the scene and carved out a niche until every other state had to start adapting to it.

*In [[Honor Harrington]] Honor partially goes native on Grayson. To the point of appearing in court at Manticore in a Grayson dress.

 

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