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* ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'' plays with this, both straight up and subverted. A relatively [[Justified Trope|innocuous]] case, unless you use the movie as a reference work about Australia. The late [[Crocodile Hunter|Steve Irwin]] played a similar schtick.
* The Pirate Lords in the third ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie are all rather...ethnic. Chow Yun-Fat commented in the press about being a "good boy" and portraying the Orientalist stereotype that was his character. Most of his role was [[Banned in China|cut by Chinese censors]].
* [[Spike Lee]]'s ''[[Bamboozled]]'' is a scathing satire of
* ''[[Borat]]'' and ''[[Bruno]]'', two mockumentaries by Sacha Baron Cohen, are provocatively constructed as minstrel shows of people living in third world countries and gay people, respectively. The real targets, however, are the people had by the routine.
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== [[Music]] ==
* Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" rarely causes offense, as it benefits from the nerdy equivalent of [[N-Word Privileges]]. It's full of [[Genius Bonus
== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
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* ''[[Looney Tunes|Speedy Gonzales]]''. He's very popular in Latin America; a theory about this is that he sublimates the complicated love/hate relationship between Latin American countries and the United States because, as stereotypical as he is, Speedy always wins over the evil gringo cat/duck/whoever animal).
** You could also see Speedy as a trope aversion. Where the stereotype is that Mexicans are slow and lazy, Speedy is fast and capable. The reason Speedy isn't shown anymore isn't really him as much as the other mice, who could be interpreted as lazy and helpless.
*** Though even that image is subverted; Speedy's cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez embodied the lazy
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is one of many who take the "we're not making fun of the people, we're making fun of the stereotypes" stance, repetitively citing how much crap they put on Jews when the co-creators themselves are Jewish. Either way, it all quickly gets really old and [[Genre Shift|consumes the show's original premise]], which as you probably don't remember, was spoofing reality shows. Still, [[Take That]] stereotypes!
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' sometimes delves into this. ''Especially'' when it comes to the Irish, partially because [[Acceptable Ethnic Targets|very few people - even if they actually are Irish - still get offended by that]].
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