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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"Officer, you only pulled me over because I think I'm black."
|''[[Mad Magazine]]'' spoof of ''[[8 Mile]]''}}
If you don't, you will look silly ''at the very least''. Worse, in fiction, wars have started that way.
The most common form of this is likely just trying to imitate an accent. The most notorious form is middle class [[Suburbia|suburban]] white kids imitating
The end result of this usually sounds [[Totally Radical]] to natives of said culture. White people guilty of this are sometimes called "wiggers" combining the words "white" and a certain racial slur that [[N-Word Privileges|white people generally avoid using]]. This version of the character was especially prevalent (and mocked) in [[The Nineties]]. Though [[Genre Motif/Hip Hop|rap music]], like [[Rock and Roll|rock 'n' roll]] decades before, has become mainstream enough so that white people who enjoy it aren't automatically labeled as posers, as long as there are [[subculture]]s associated with particular ethnic or socioeconomic groups, new versions of this trope will likely exist until the end of time.
One common variation is white people, usually [[Otaku]], who are obsessed with Japanese culture. These people are often called "Wapanese"; during 2005, the preferred term became [[wikipedia:Japanophile#21st century|"weeaboos"]], due to [[4chan]] moderators devising a creative word-filter to deter usage of the former term by replacing it with a nonsense word from a strip of ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]''.
This trope has some similarities to [[Blackface]]
See also [[White Gang-Bangers]] and [[Modern Minstrelsy]].▼
▲See also [[White Gang-Bangers]].
{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* In a series of commercials for T-Mobile, a gang of these represent their fictional competitor, Poser Mobile, in an obvious [[Take That]]
== [[Anime]]
* Bet you didn't see this coming did you? Actually, the "classic" depiction of [[Japanese Delinquents]] (face masks, triangle shades, pompadours, sarashi, etc...) in anime has decreased quite a bit in recent years, having been replaced by pierced youth in baggy "urban" wear (at mildest) to even full-blown wiggers (at worst).
* ''[[Durarara!!]]'' had a bunch of them in episode 3.
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* ''[[Peepo Choo]]'' has Morimoto "Rockstar", an [[Ax Crazy]] yakuza boss who insists on dressing and acting like his own somewhat-distorted idea of an African-American hip-hop gangster.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In an issue of ''[[Gotham Central]]'', Detectives Romy Chandler and Marcus Driver are chasing a couple of teenage white kids who speak and dress like hip-hoppers. When the kids get caught they profess their innocence and Romy points out that they assaulted an officer, which would mean time in juvie, where "you can see how much real brothers like rich white kids co-opting their culture,
* ''[[The Onion]]'': [http://www.theonion.com/personalities/herbert-kornfeld,1019/ Herbert Kornfeld, Accountz Reeceevin.] Mourn ya till I join ya.▼
▲* In a series of commercials for T-Mobile, a gang of these represent their fictional competitor, Poser Mobile, in an obvious [[Take That]] against the hip-hop-themed ads for Sprint's Boost Mobile prepaid service.
▲* In an issue of ''[[Gotham Central]]'', Detectives Romy Chandler and Marcus Driver are chasing a couple of teenage white kids who speak and dress like hip-hoppers. When the kids get caught they profess their innocence and Romy points out that they assaulted an officer, which would mean time in juvie, where "you can see how much real brothers like rich white kids co-opting their culture, '[[Ironic Echo|dog]].'"
* Pops up from time to time in the Swedish [[Underground Comics|underground comic]] ''[[Rocky (comics)|Rocky]]''.
* Phat from ''[[X-Force|X-Statix]]'' is the scion of a rich family who poses as a hood rat as a ploy to get into what was at the time X-Force. It worked ''fantastically''; evidently none of his teammates ever suspected he wasn't actually born and raised in an impoverished inner city home. [[Angry Black Man]] teammate the Spike has a problem with the Anarchist, an adopted black man raised by white parents, but not Phat.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* From ''[[My Immortal]]'', [[Snoop Dogg|Snoop]], [[Harry Potter|AKA Snape]], has a tendency to [[Gangsta Rap|rap]] people when he gets mad. Also, [[Rouge Angles of Satin|Hargrid]] seems to be a fan of [[50 Cent]].▼
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'', Jaden Yuki is portrayed as this, even rapping over the end credits.▼
==
* Almost got a couple of kids beat up in ''[[Can't Hardly Wait]]''
▲* From [[My Immortal]], [[Snoop Dogg|Snoop]], [[Harry Potter|AKA Snape]], has a tendency to [[Gangsta Rap|rap]] people when he gets mad. Also, [[Rouge Angles of Satin|Hargrid]] seems to be a fan of 50 Cent.
* ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]'' made fun of the above scene, but with a white kid trying to be Chinese. In a later scene, he gets picked on by passing by white kids who think they're black. He finally calls a group of Asian students "chinks" and is promptly kicked in the face.
*
* Trying to quell the controversy over [[Race Lift
* In
▲* Almost got a couple of kids beat up in ''[[Can't Hardly Wait]]'', when they say to some of their black classmates, "[[N-Word Privileges|What's up with my niggas!]]"
▲* When actors play another culture, [[Fake Nationality|nationality]] or race that they don't understand. Even taking [[Unfortunate Implications]] out of this equation, they just look ridiculous. For example, the "How, White Man," portrayal of Native Americans in old movies, usually played by white people. Graham Greene tore that a new one in ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]''.
▲* Trying to quell the controversy over [[Race Lift|Race Lifted]] characters in ''[[The Last Airbender]]'', [[M. Night Shyamalan]] argued that the movie would be "culturally diverse," meaning the movie would star a bunch of white kids in Asian clothes.
▲* In Ralph Macchio's ('''NOT''' [[Britney Spears]]') movie ''Crossroads'', the lead character idolizes blues music, but he looks at it as purely an art form. It only penetrates that the blues is a state of mind and heart when the love interest abandons him without even saying goodbye.
* Collins in ''[[Idiocracy]]''. Interestingly, he seems to hit it off pretty well with Upgrayedd ("With two D's for a 'double dose' of his pimping"), if his slide show is anything to go by.
** Part of the reason that the plot happens, furthermore, is that Collins ends up getting arrested by military police. It's implied that he took to the pimping lifestyle a little too closely...
* The 2007 ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' brings us Jazz, an ''alien robot'' who deliberately takes on [[Jive Turkey]] mannerisms. He ''is'' voiced by [[Family Matters|Darius McCrary]] but that doesn't explain the gratuitous break dancing.
** When Sam Witwicky is being questioned by the police, he sees one of the cop's guns, and that cop says, "You eyein' my piece, [[
** In the sequel, ''Revenge of the Fallen'', the Twins are meant to be this according to [[Word of God]]. And since, functionally, they're callously imitating black culture as they see it on TV and such, this makes sense. However, as they were neither white nor black but ''bright orange'' and ''bright green'', there was little physical anchor for the joke, meaning that most people who saw the movie thought they were meant to be caricatures of actual hood rats. (And quite a few people missed the mark entirely and thought they were supposed to be ''hillbillies''.)
▲** IDW comic's [[Rice Burner|Drift]] is commonly [[Alternate Character Interpretation|interpreted]] as an Otaku by many fans, because that's the only way they can salvage a [[Shoo Out the New Guy|really]] [[Creator's Pet|horrible]] [[God Mode Sue|"character"]].
* Parodied in ''[[Gran Torino]]'', where a young white man's pretending to be black first just pisses off three actual black youths, and then earns him a scathing assessment from Walt (Clint Eastwood). Especially funny in that the white youth in question is played by Eastwood's son.
* ''[[The Onion]] Movie'' has a young white man who goes around pretending he's black... who later gets arrested by two racist cops and jailed for crime he didn't commit based on the 'colour of his skin'.
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{{quote|'''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]:''' This movie is whiter than ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''!}}
* The movie ''Barbershop'' features a white guy who actually is from the streets and thus dresses, speaks, and acts accordingly - who is offended when a nerdy middle class black guy implies he's somehow pretending to be something he's not based solely on the color of his skin.
* ''[[
* ''[[Undercover Brother]]''.
** White supremacist Mr. Feather constantly seems to have to battle to suppress an urge to be one of these. This causes him some stress.
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* The pimp played by Gary Oldman in ''[[True Romance]]'' makes a great show of incorporating stereotypically black speech patterns, wearing dreadlocks, and watching Richard Pryor movies.
* The entire movie ''[[Malibus Most Wanted]]''
* ''[[10 Things I Hate About You]]
{{quote|'''Mr. Morgan:''' I know how difficult it must be for you to overcome all those years of upper middle-class suburban oppression. Must be tough. But the next time you storm the PTA crusading for better... lunch meat, or whatever it is you white girls complain about, ask them
'''White Rastas:''' That's right mon!
'''Mr. Morgan:''' Don't even get me started on you two.
* In ''[[Quigley Down Under]]'', the Australian Marston is obsessed with [[The Wild West]].
* In ''[[Hidalgo]]'', an Arabian sheik is fascinated by American culture and anything related to cowboys.
* In ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', a German soldier is captured by Americans. Fearing execution, he starts sucking up to them by talking about American pop culture and butchering the Star-Spangled Banner.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* The earlier ''[[Adrian Mole]]'' books contained the character of Adrian's classmate Danny: a white kid who had dreadlocks, wrote reggae music and spoke in a poor imitation of Jamaican patois.
** He even referred to Adrian as a "honky". Adrian's response: "What a cheek, he's twice as white as I am!"
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* A fantastic version appears in ''[[Ciaphas Cain|For The Emperor]]''. Part of the population of Gravallax, due to being close to the Tau territories, absorbed their ideals and customs and looks up to them. Some go as far as to paint their skin blue. Justified: {{spoiler|actually it's the Tyranid inflitration stirring up the [[Fantastic Racism]].}}
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* Jon Stewart mocks this in one of his more recent standup routines. He says that middle-class people (not just white people) shouldn't try to talk like inner-city gangsters, because they have no connection to that culture aside from what they see on TV. It would make as much sense for them to talk like a pirate (Talk Like a Pirate Day notwithstanding).
{{quote|'' "How was the party?" " 'Twas a fine shindig indeed, arrrr!"''}}
** Yes, except that you never hear actual pirates complaining about Talk Like a Pirate Day.
* Ali G from ''[[Da Ali G Show]]'' is a Jewish guy acting the part of a stereotypical white middle class wannabe who actually expects people to believe he's a black man from the ghetto. Ta-daa!
** Ali G acts just like a
* This happens to Dr. Joel Fleischman in the ''[[Northern Exposure]]'' episode "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop", when Fleischman tries to connect with the "Hebrew Heritage" of Cicely, Alaska. This is slightly subverted by the fact that Fleischman is himself Jewish, yet is still berated for trying to "act Jewish".
* J.D.'s attempts in ''[[Scrubs]]'' at acting black usually fall disastrously short. Turk is generally more successful but is nonetheless called on this behavior when Dr Cox claims Turk isn't really black. Some of Dr. Cox's evidence is that Turk has a geeky white best friend, listens to Neil Diamond and [[Jive Turkey|acts like a black guy]], which are traits only seen in white guys.
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* Mr. Drummond and Kimberly on ''[[Diff'rent Strokes]]'' occasionally.
== [[Music]] ==▼
* [[Trope Namer|Named]] for the song "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" by [[The Offspring]]. It
▲== Music ==
▲* [[Trope Namer|Named]] for the song "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" by [[The Offspring]]. It looks as though it's about race, but looking closer, it's clear the kid is just middle class, and has no idea of the actual hip-hop and ghetto culture. Thus he looks like an ass.
* The [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]] song "Common People" is about the "slumming" phenomenon where upper class people try to live a working class lifestyle as a kind of "holiday", based on [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|a real woman that Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker knew]] when he was studying at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Some of the lyrics are particularly relevant:
{{quote|''Laugh along with the common people,
''Laugh along even though they're laughing at you,
''And the stupid things that you do,
''Because you think that poor is cool. }}
* The Sparks song ''Suburban Homeboy'' is all about this idea. "I'm a suburban homeboy, and I say Yo Dog to my pool cleaner guy..."
* Like the [[Trope Namer]], [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "White and Nerdy" focuses on a white dork who wants to be gangsta.
** Specifically, he wants to roll with the gangstas, but rather than imitating them, he spends most of the song describing just how nerdy he is.
*** "Weird Al" has actually covered the [[Trope Namer]] (as ''Pretty Fly For A Rabbi'', which actually seems to invert the trope by being about an actual Jewish person who so excels at the stereotypes that he's well-liked for it).
*** Slightly more relevant is that [[Chamillionaire]] (to whom the parodied song "Ridin' <s>Dirty</s>" belongs) was pleasantly surprised by Yankovic's skill at rap.
* For that matter, the sections of the British blues scene of [[The Sixties]], at least for those less than authentic in their delivery or presentation. This, and the [[Follow the Leader|overexposure]] of blues and R&B influence then popular at the time, helped lead to the very British [[Progressive Rock]] scene. Ian Anderson felt he and his band were stealing a part of black culture and emotional experiences insincerely and not always convincingly, and that by strictly resigning himself to performing a "polite shade" of black American music he had little room for the [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|full extent of music]] he wanted to make. He soon reinvented [[Jethro Tull]] as a very eclectic English/Scottish [[Progressive Rock]] band in [[The Seventies]].
* Tim "the Big Dawg" Westwood. Bizarrely, some people seem to think he actually pulls it off.
** It helps that he's apparently a thoroughly pleasant bloke, isn't
** Mr. B (the Gentleman Rhymer) mocks him splendidly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6yh7ftRnw8 here].
*** It could be argued that Mr. B's entire act is a deliberate defiance of this trope; proof that you don't need to act black to be a white rapper.
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* [[Tokio Hotel|Tom Kaulitz]], a German guitar player who has had his hair both in dreadlocks and cornrows and always sports clothes about 100 times too baggy for him. He even has his own shoe.
* [[Eminem]], [[Your Mileage May Vary|though it's debatable.]] While he would be looked up to as an idol by pretty much everyone on this list and even wore an Africa pendant during high school, it should be noted that he came from an impoverished background and was engrossed in Detroit's hip-hop scene instead of simply imitating it. It helps that he stopped wearing baggy sweats and the like after he got sober.
* Somewhat less debatable is [[Kid Rock]], whose father was a used car salesman, and is himself a [[Donald Trump|Trumpist]] conservative.
* According to [[Cage]], [[Rick Rubin]] attended one of Cage's early performances, dismissed Cage as "a wigga", and walked out.
* [[Frank Zappa]]'s song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETvoNlcvswI You Are What You Is]": The first verse is about this, while the second one is about the opposite situation.
* American [[Black Metal]] bands are sometimes accused of this, based on the assumption that black metal is an essentially European
* A non-urban version is lampooned in Alan Jackson's 1994 hit song "Gone Country", although the song is often misinterpreted as being in favor of such a masquerade.
* Canadian reggae artist [[Lampshade Hanging|Snow]] (born Darrin O'Brien) was often accused of this simply because, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|just look at his stage name]]. However, like Eminem, Snow came by it naturally, having grown up in the housing projects in Toronto that had a lot of Caribbean immigrants and thus was exposed to reggae and dancehall throughout his formative years. Having the best-charting and best
* White rapper Kreayshawn, born Natassia Zolot, is receiving a lot of criticism for this. She is being accused of appropriating black culture. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131010065106/http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2011/06/kreayshawn-another-case-of-appropriating-black-culture/ This] criticism of her says that even the way she dresses is a [[Double Standard]], since if a black female rapper were to do the same thing they'd be accused of being ghetto and uneducated.
* Yelawolf is an aversion; like Eminem, he came from an impoverished background and happened upon hip-hop naturally by way of going to school in the Nashville projects and becoming acclimated with the music there. Furthermore, his topics seldom touch upon the inner city and focus more on the unpleasantries of Deep South life, which is what he was used to.
* The [[w:Nerdcore|Nerdcore]] scene is an aversion, as while it is composed mostly by geeky white men rapping, they actually rap about themes that interest them like scientific concepts, role-playing games, and nerd-oriented media.
* Way too common in the [[K-pop]] scene, as their dominant music style is based in R&B, hip-hop and rap fusions, and where it's considered obligatory to have at least one rapper in every pop group even if said "rapper" is only taught the technique and hadn't ever listened to American rap. As a result, there are a lot of groups that copy and even blatantly appropriate Afro-American rap aesthetics, while at the same time dropping racist remarks against anyone who isn't ethnical Korean.
** [[BTS (band)|BTS]]'s rappers are one of the few groups in the industry that are self-aware of this trope and how it applies to them. While the rappers have actual knowledge on influential American rappers (even name-dropping their influences in their self-written songs) and at least two of them were part of the underground local scene before being recruited as idol trainees, their initial concept as "hip hop boy band" had them wearing outfits that practically could put them as the postcard of this trope. They began to shed this image since the year after their debut, and have reportedly apologized for every gaffes they had commited and averting it whenever possible.
== [[New Media]] ==
* The source of the humor in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130721044548/http://bash.org/?739936 this] bash.org quote.▼
* ...and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130713102810/http://www.qdb.us/55462 this one] on qdb.us as well.▼
==
▲* The source of the humor in [http://bash.org/?739936 this] bash.org quote.
▲* ...and [http://www.qdb.us/55462 this one] on qdb.us as well.
* ''[[Zits]]'' does this a number of times as well.
{{quote|'''Walt''': "What? Don't people say Wazzup Dawg anymore?"
'''Jeremy''': "Dad, do us all a favor and talk like the middle aged white guy you are." }}
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==▼
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler John Cena was
▲== Professional Wrestling ==
▲* [[WWE]] wrestler John Cena was [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]] as a [[Heel]]. Then, he had a [[Heel Face Turn]], and we were suddenly supposed to take his hip-hop posturing seriously. (It didn't help that he stopped actually rapping after his album was released and just made a lot of gay jokes in a "ghetto" accent.) Needless to say, the [[Narm]] thus created has led to massive amounts of [[X-Pac Heat]] whenever WWE hits any place that has an actual urban hip-hop culture. Thankfully, these days, he's toned down the hip-hop allusions in favor of becoming, essentially, an [[Ascended Fanboy]], but the [[X-Pac Heat]] among [[Smart Mark|Smart Marks]] may never completely subside.
** Side note: Los Angeles has a very large "actual urban hip-hop culture," and Cena gets really loud cheers in L.A.
** What Cena has been doing is fundamentally no different from what [[Elvis Presley]] did in [[The Fifties]]. He is a white, upper-middle-class American who, in his soul, does not ''feel'' like a white, upper-middle-class American, and acts accordingly. Far from mocking black culture, he is actually celebrating it, while putting a less menacing (white) face on it for his white fans. You may quibble about the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of all this, but it's really nothing new. (And interestingly, Cena's longtime nemesis John "Bradshaw" Layfield was essentially [[Not So Different|Cena in reverse]]: a boorish, trailer-park Texan who became obsessed with money and riches, and rebaptized himself as a Wall Street tycoon. This resulted in a bit of [[Hypocritical Humor]] when in 2006 JBL was doing a bit of color commentary on ''SmackDown!'' where he mocked Anna Nicole Smith; he is, in a way, [[You Are What You Hate|basically her male equivalent]].)
* ''Too Cool''. Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor as wannabe rappers dancing to hip hop beats and later adding former [[Wild Samoan]] Rikishi to their act ended being one of the more surprising hits of the Attitude era in the then-WWF. What made the gimmick work so well was the delightful randomness and heterogeneity of it: two skinny white men and a fat [[Fake Nationality|Japanese]] guy performing impromptu dance moves to a style of music that neither whites nor Japanese are ordinarily associated with.
* Ray Gordy, currently known as Slam Master J is their 21st Century successor from the blonde cornrows down to the [[
* The Memphis-based tag team ''PG-13'' (Wolfie D and Jaime "JC Ice" Dundee) were likely the first wrestlers to use this as a gimmick. They would go on to have stints [[
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
== Tabletop Games ==▼
▲* ''[[The Onion]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031014826/http://www.theonion.com/personalities/herbert-kornfeld,1019/ Herbert Kornfeld, Accountz Reeceevin.] Mourn ya till I join ya.
* In the latest editions of ''[[Shadowrun]]'', of the flaws you can take, a few of them are Ork and Elf poser, which makes you the fantasy equivilent with obvious drawbacks.▼
▲== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲* In the latest{{when}} editions of ''[[Shadowrun]]'',
==
* A variation: OG Loc from ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' may be black himself, but it quickly becomes apparent that he's pretty bad at trying to be 'gangsta'. He '''does''' manage to make a music career out of it for a while, but that's only because he has CJ steal Madd Dogg's rhymebook.
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' has a variation: in the upper-middle-class-to-wealthy Clerk's Ward section of [[Capital City|Sigil]], you meet a group of "Clerk's Ward Thugs" who are poorly attempting to be "street", including hilarious misuse of the in-universe [[Future Slang]] common to the Hive (which, as the name implies, is a [[Wretched Hive]]). [[Tsundere|Annah]], your party member who actually IS from the Hive, makes fun of them and threatens to fight them.
* Dark Smoke Puncher from ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' is an [[McNinja|Irish-American ninja]] who effects stereotypical "Gangsta" mannerisms. Something of a subversion in that he only does this to prevent his parents from noticing just how incredibly nerdy he actually is.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': [[The Lancer|Dave Strider]] and his Bro are, as described by Dave himself, "[[McNinja|ironic rapping roof ninjas]]". Not much of Bro's work is seen (but plenty is seen of [[Demonic Dummy|his love of puppeteering]]), but Dave was known to burst into improvised rap early on, he has a sizable array of sampling equipment and turntables, he sent Jade a collection of techno remix efforts of [[Stylistic Suck|questionable quality]], and in Sburb he even controls his [[Time Master|time powers]] through augmented turntables. While [[Raised by Wolves|Jade]] is impressed by it all, [[The Hero|John]] and [[The Smart Guy|Rose]] don't really buy it all that much, and love to snark about or criticise it at many opportunities.
{{quote|{{color|#0715cd|EB: that's fine, you are entitled to your opinion, i am just saying that being a white guy who is a rapper with a ventriloquist doll is not cool by any stretch of the imagination or by any definition of word cool, ironic or otherwise. that's all i'm saying.}}}}
** After having to clarify that the humans in ''Homestuck'' are aracial, Andrew [[Orwellian Retcon|changed]] 'white' in the above quote to 'Íæûë€Å', though it's since been changed back. He did this mainly to try and quell a [[Flame War]] on the forums.
* ''Regular Marine'', being a ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' parody comic, [https://web.archive.org/web/20170105203358/http://flashgitzanims.tumblr.com/post/123528807793/79 describes] the local variety:
{{quote|'''Tau''': He's a Gue'Vesa - 'Human Helper', or 'weaboo' in your tongue...
'''Tau''': They're obsessed with everything ''Tau'' despite knowing little of our culture. Their lack of social skills is made up for in an abundance of blind racist loyalty. }}
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160213215105/http://www.alexandradal.com/comic/miley-cyrus-paper-doll-cultural-appropriation-edition/ Miley Cyrus Paper Doll: Cultural Appropriation Edition]'' by [http://alexandradal.tumblr.com/post/59461125667/miley-cyrus-cultural-appropriation-paper-doll Alexandra Dal].
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Originals ==
* In ''[[The Allen and Craig Show]]'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnTpRuwinkA two] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC21lrNROCU part] Episode 8, Allen gets his very white, but maybe not so white, friend Lars, who he calls "the coolest guy I know" to keep Craig from becoming totally lame.
▲* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'', Jaden Yuki is portrayed as this, even rapping over the end credits.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] will always complain when movies do this, but she's had a few cringe-worthy (if hilarious) moments herself when she's tried to act like a [[Sassy Black Woman]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140301063249/http://weknowmemes.com/2011/11/parenting-youre-doing-it-right/ This] viral Facebook post.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* In one episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Chris becomes the towel boy for the high school basketball team and picks up some slang and mannerisms from the black players. His father Peter investigates their heritage, with the intention of familiarizing Chris with their Irish roots, and discovers a black slave among his ancestors. Then Peter starts trying to act like a black man, and goes entirely too far; wearing a dashiki, insisting that he be called Kichwa Tembo, and demanding reparations from his father-in-law. Hilariously, he discards his new identity the moment Carter whips out his checkbook:
{{quote|'''Carter:''' Okay, how do you spell "Kichwa?"
'''Peter:''' Y'know what? Screw "Kichwa;" the name's Peter. P-E-T-E... }}
* Phineas of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' tries to sound "street" in one episode by peppering his speech with the word [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|dang]]. He comes off sounding more like a hillbilly than a gangsta. Ferb on the other hand raps pretty good considering the constraints of a Disney cartoon and the fact Ferb is usually [[The Silent Bob]].
** Of course, [[Non-Singing Voice|that's because they hired professional rappers to voice him]].
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' presents [[Girl Scouts Are Evil|Cindy McPherson]]. A little blonde
** Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy from the same show. Both are white and come from affluent families (Ed in particular being the grandson of the wealthiest man in Woodcrest
* Similarly, in ''[[The Haunted World of El Superbeasto]]'', Velvet Von Black, who's lily-white and talks like a [[Jive Turkey]], is voiced by [[Rosario Dawson]].
* At the beginning of ''[[The Fairly
* Eric Cartman of ''[[South Park]]'' does this very briefly in "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut", when he's trying to find his real father. When he's under the impression that it may be Chef, he dons the outfit in the page image and affects African-American vernacular (or at least, his understanding of it):
{{quote|'''Cartman:''' I was just down at the SPC, kickin' it with some G's on the West Si-eed...}}
▲== Real Life ==
* US Presidential candidate [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4 Mitt Romney].
** Also, Presidential candidate [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJ8NtvVFs8 Hillary Clinton].
** Presidential candidate Rick Perry, during controversy over a property of his named "[[N-Word Privileges|Niggerhead]]", referred to African-American candidate Herman Cain as "brother" during a debate.
* While reading a poem by a black poet, a black student was told by his white teacher to read it "blacker
*
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