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== Real life examples ==
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_19743_7-outrageous-hoaxes-that-actually-worked_p2.html Robert Fortune] was a white Scottish man who disguised himself as a Chinese man to learn the secrets of Chinese tea. He explained [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent|his Scottish accent]] by claiming to be from a faraway province. As different regions of China have different accents and even different languages, this worked.
* In 1703, a white Frenchman named [https://web.archive.org/web/20131112002213/http://www.cracked.com/article/187_6-people-who-got-away-with-living-implausible-lie/ George Psalmanazar] pretended to be from Formosa (Taiwan) and wrote a book about his "homeland." He spoke gibberish, ate strange foods, and followed several made-up customs. But the craziest part is that he didn't even change his appearance, claiming that upper-class Formosans sleep underground.
* An English servant named Mary Baker spent some time under the name [[wikipedia:Princess Caraboo|Princess Caraboo]] and used her identity to be wined and dined by various dignitaries.
* Inverted by Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American who got plastic surgery on his eyelids in the hope that he could pass for white and avoid anti-Japanese sentiment in [[World War II]] America.
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