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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

** 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 [[50 Cent]]-like clothes, but so far, merely a [[Butt Monkey|jobber]] teamed with Jimmy Wang Yang, a subversion in that he's "pretty redneck for an Asian guy."

 

== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==

{{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. }}

 

== [[Web Original]] ==