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One character assumes another has a certain item, skill, or relationship based on a stereotype, be it racial, gender, or orientation-based.
For instance, someone asks a gay character if he can design clothes, or a latino character if he has any relatives who work on cars, or a black character if he knows where to buy weed.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'' Otto Chriek is an [[
** Used in the earlier ''Carpe Jugulum'' with an Igor.
* In ''[[Everworld]],'' David asks April if he knows anything about the goddess Brigid, {{spoiler|whom he'd just met back in the normal world}}. April wryly comments that she doesn't know Celtic mythology just because her family is Irish. When David is embarrassed she admits that she ''does'' know a bit about Brigid, though only because she takes time to study mythology while in the Old World.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* A variation occurs in the comic strip ''[[Candorville]],'' where (black) protagonist Lemont is told by a little kid that he looks just like "that one guy running for president." Lemont points out that he looks nothing like Barack Obama, and tells the kid that making assumptions like that is racist. The kid replies [[Mistaken for Racist|that he meant John McCain]], as both he and Lamont look "really old." Lemont ruefully replies that he liked it better when the kid was being racist.
** Another strip plays it perfectly straight: A white passerby asks Lemont if he knows any restaurants that have good ribs. Lemont launches into a rant about how racist it is to assume that he would know that just because he's black, and then cheerfully recommends Roscoe's Rib Shack.
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