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* Thanks to [[Phlebotinum]]-induced [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|amnesia]], Captain Kirk winds up accidentally going native in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|ST:TOS]]'' episode "The Paradise Syndrome". Being original [[Star Trek]], this of course is [[Reset Button|reversed by the end of the episode]].

** Captain Kirk does this again in "A Piece Of The Action" when he adopts the [[The Mafia|natives ways]] by making himself the biggest [[The Don|don]] on the planet. Nobody's gonna put the bag over him any more!

* An episode of ''[[Tales from the Darkside]]'' was called "Going Native", and involved an alien woman settling down on Earth.

* [[Played for Laughs]] on ''[[Mad TV]]'' when an Arab terrorist sleeper agent ([[Casting Gag|played by the Jewish Ike Barinholtz]]) becomes completely Americanized to the point of becoming Jewish, speaking with a perfect "Goofy White Guy" American accent and basically living the [[American Dream]] as just another suburbanite. He's called out on this by his contact...who then [[Heel Face Turn|becomes mesmerized by the vibrating chair, built-in remote and TiVo,]] promptly adopting the same accent and turning his turban into a fruit bowl to become the agent's "old friend."

* J. Hudson Taylor, a British missionary in China, wore Chinese clothing, wore his hair in the Manchu queue, and spoke Chinese to be able to be better accepted by the Chinese public.

** Matteo Ricci, Jesuit priest and missionary, also mastered the Chinese language (including its complicated writing system), wore Chinese robes and was the first Westerner to visit the Forbidden City.

* Soldiers from any number of long-term occupying armies over the centuries have found themselves in settled lives, even marrying locals and having children, in the occupied countries. For example, it's on record that when the ancient Romans were finally ordered to leave Britain as the empire collapsed, a lot of them quietly deserted to stay with their families.

* William Adams also known as Miura Anjin, an English ship's pilot working for the Dutch who eventually became an adviser to Tokugawa Ieyasu and was responsible for setting up Dutch and English trading houses in Japan. He also served as the inspiration for the Blackthorne character in [[Shogun]].