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** The pilot episode has Quinn listening to a radio broadcast about Americans illegally crossing into Mexico in search of jobs. This is the same world where [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|traffic lights]] are inverted (green means stop, red means go).
** A mild case in the first episode involving the Kromaggs, when the heroes slide into a world where US was largely colonized by France, and Arturo is being made fun of for being English.
** In one episode, There is a world where Kromaggs are timid docile creatures who wouldn't hurt anyone. Humans oppress them and put them in labor camps.
* The ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "The Eye Of The Beholder", in which beauty is a pig nose and cleft palate while movie-star looks are a deformity.
* In a ''[[Star Trek]]:[[The Next Generation]]'' episode, an androgynous race views any gender identity as an illness to be cured.
** In another episode, a race of humanoids is ruled by women, while men are their servants and sexual playthings.
** On still another episode, a child-alien persecutes the adults on the ship for imposing rules on children.
** In another episode, Worf travels to an alternate universe where the Bajorans are enemies of the Federation and they overpowered the Cardassians.
* In one episode of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', the crew visit a parallel universe where women are the dominant gender. Their entire history is gender-flipped, so Hamlet was written by Wilma Shakespeare, Nellie Armstrong was the first person on the moon, and men organised equal rights marches and burned their jockstraps in the '60s. Oh, and [[Mister Seahorse|it's the men who get pregnant]].
* Sexism and Gender Stereotypes are played with in the weird little German-UK SF series from the 1970's - Star Maidens. In which, two men escape from the planet Medusa which is ruled by women and where men are badly mistreated and head for Earth because one of the men has heard it's ruled by men. They are pursued by a couple of their female mistresses. Let's just say it wasn't subtle and leave it at that.
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== Real Life ==
* [http://notalwaysright.com/white-in-new-jersey-what-a-concept/1785 This Not Always Right post has a customer attempting this.] It comes off as head-scratchingly ridiculous.
* This sort of thing has happened when different groups get the upper hand in a closely-divided country. Some prime examples are:
** Protestants and Catholics taking turns persecuting each other during the European Wars of Religion (including the [[Thirty Years' War]]) whenever the ruler changed (either through succession, conversion, [[Klingon Succession]], or conquest). England's history is a prime example: Henry VIII was famous for persecuting Protestants mercilessly until that whole divorce thing, at which point he started persecuting Catholics; when his Catholic daughter Mary became Queen, she persecuted Protestants; and when Mary was succeeded by Elizabeth, she started persecuting Catholics again.
** The same was more or less true when the Middle East was under Byzantine rule. Oriental and Eastern [[Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox]] Christians took the place of Protestants and Catholics, with the favor of the local governor being the variable.
** In the interminable wars between the Byzantine and Sassanid Persian Empires in the 6th and 7th centuries, [[Jerusalem]] would inevitably change hands. Since the Byzantines were Christian and distrusted the Jews, every time they took over the city, Jerusalem would be purged of its Jewish population. Whenever the Persians--Zoroastrians who distrusted Christians as possibly loyal to Constantinople, but had no problem with the Jews--took the city, they slaughtered the Christians and spared the Jews. This happened ''several times'' over a relatively short period of time before the Muslim conquests put an end to that by destroying Persia completely and taking a huge bite out of Byzantium; when they took Jerusalem, they surprised everyone by slaughtering nobody.
* A study done decades ago in a real class promoted and demoted blue and brown eyed pupils to show the effects and issues of racism and other -isms. The children, regardless of being told about the study, stated that they came to feel superior or inferior, and had trouble re-adjusting even years later.
* A study done with college students had some be jailers, and some jailed. The jailers were somewhat oppressive, but only somewhat. After a time, they switched. The once-jailed-now-jailers were much more oppressive.
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