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[[File:EdmundBlairLeightonTheHostage.jpg|frame|Guess which one is not a local.]]
 
{{quote|''The roving Scot and... buccaneering Dane,
''Whose red hair-haired offspring anywhereeverywhere remain...''|Daniel Defoe, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True-Born_Englishman "The True-Born Englishman"]}}
 
A [[Heroic Fantasy]] trope. Also found in [[Hollywood History]].
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And in the better fantasy writers, this predisposition is all there is.
 
In all too many works, however, the races are absolutely uniform, living in an ethnic [[Patchwork Map]]. Even at the borders, [[Halfbreed|half-breeds]]s are unusual and physically distinctive. [[Phenotype Stereotype]] usually prevails: [[Blue Eyes]] for blonds, [[Green Eyes]] for [[GreenSignificant Green-Eyed Red HeadRedhead|redheads]], [[Gray Eyes]] or [[Brown Eyes]] for dark-haired people. Furthermore, the physical appearances are also used as a short hand for [[Planet of Hats]] traits.
 
The prevalence of [[Medieval European Fantasy]] makes the subdivisions of whites plausible, but other ethnic subdivisions are known, and, sometimes, a blond race will contrast with a dark-haired race that is clearly not white. Often, the mere presence of whites and blacks in the same area will not preclude their regarding themselves as more finely divided than that—which is also [[Truth in Television]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s Middle-earth, there are often a set of common hair-colours among various peoples, although averted as they are not uniform and not without exceptions. Of both Men and Elves, there are tribes who are dark-haired and those who are blond; Hobbits are generally brown-haired, while blond is rare.
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