Dirty Foreigner: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

{{quote| '''Osaka''': In American homes.. (...) You can go inside without your shoes, right?<br />

'''Yukari-sensei''': Yes..<br />

* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[The Caves of Steel]]'' protagonist Elijah Baley notes that the Earth rhyme against the foreign "Spacers" (people who settled worlds besides Earth) always seems to include "Dirty Spacers", and that "dirty" seems to be a common insult against those you hate. Ironically, the Spacers consider Earth people as dirty, and are correct, as the Spacers have eliminated most communicable diseases and compared to them, Earth people are bags of disease and a danger to Spacers due to a mostly unused Spacer immune system.

** In addition, when Elijah Baley visits a Spacer world in the sequel, the bathroom is so clean it gleams (because it is cleaned by robots after every use and uses advanced materials) that he wonders how he will adjust when he had to go back to using communal bathrooms on Earth.

* In [[Tom Sharpe]]'s novels, the mutual respect with which the two kinds of white South Africans look upon each other... both British-descended and Dutch-descended Afrikaaners will use the trope of soap-innocence to describe each other...

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* The very first line in ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' was an [[Orphaned Punchline]] about this.

{{quote| '''Lewis''': ...and that's why the French don't wash.}}

 

== [[Radio]] ==