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== Literature ==
* Christopher from ''[[Everworld]]'', who claims to be a homophobic, anti-semitic, racist redneck. Ends up befriending a gay god, a Jew, and an African American during the course of the story, but even before then he didn't really mean most of his comments and even after he bonds with his friends he still makes jokes of the "I swear I'm still a racist" variety.
* In the ''[[Dragaera]]'' stories, Vlad Taltos hates Dragaerans and becomes an assassin so that he can get paid to brutalize them. However as time goes on, he realizes that almost all of his genuine friends are Dragaerans, and he feels alienated from most of his own kind. This only gets worse over time, as he starts to learn that [[Humans Are
** Arguably, the same could be said of Vlad's Dragaeran friends, particularly Aliera and Morrolan. Both are highly self-aggrandizing and likely believe in their superiority to humans (Aliera certainly does, Morrolan might not [[Oblivious Adoption|being raised as one]]). Neither see any problem with conducting brutal wars of conquest against human-populated areas. Still, they see Vlad as a valued friend.
** After Vlad discovers that he is the reincarnation of the Dragaeran noble who founded the House of Jhereg after being exiled from his birth House (and was, incidentally, the brother of Aliera's previous incarnation) he starts questioning his prejudice, and wonders how much stems from the bitter resentment from that Dragaeran past life...
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