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[[File:dennis.jpg|link=Dennis the Menace (US comic strip)|frame|Dennis, your racism is adorable.]]
The far north counterpart to [[Injun Country]], and part of the [[Hollywood Atlas]] dealing with [[Canada, Eh?]]. Expect any Inuit villages to be a mishmash of outdated stereotypes. [[Polar Bears and Penguins]] are the only wildlife features in the otherwise blank white landscape. The plant life is non-existent, the snow never ever thaws. The only people around are
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== [[Film]] ==▼
* The first major documentary film, ''[[Nanook
▲== Film ==
** For instance, Flaherty asked the local Inuits to hunt down a walrus with harpoons instead of the guns that they
▲* The first major documentary film, ''[[Nanook Of The North]]'', helped perpetuate a lot of these stereotypes, as exact realism was not a major concern for documentarians in those days.
▲** For instance, Flaherty asked the local Inuits to hunt down a walrus with harpoons instead of the guns that they ordinarliy used.
* Rob Reiner's ''[[North]]'' abuses this trope horribly, giving the film's title two meanings.
* ''Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner'' is different considering it's a feature film made by an Inuit director and cast.
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* ''[[Big Miracle]]'' is better than most considering it's based on a true story and depicts the Natives realistically having to deal with the political implications of the whale rescue.
== [[Music]] ==▼
* Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" tells the story of an
▲== Music ==
▲* Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" tells the story of an eskimo boy named Nanook, his favorite baby seal and a fur trapper.
* Zigzagged with the album ''Eskimo'' by [[The Residents]].
* "Quinn the Eskimo" ("The Mighty Quinn") by [[Bob Dylan]]
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* "I'm the only gay eskimo" by Corky and the Juice Pigs
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==▼
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
* [[The Far Side|Gary Larson]] made a lot of gags based on this trope.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Holoska from ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'', the northern polar ice cap of Sonic's world and its own country.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Riff and Torg from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' seem to believe the entire state of Alaska is like this when [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030817 Riff moves there].
{{quote|'''Torg:''' Snowshoes?
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'''Torg:''' Dogsled operational manual?
'''Riff:''' Check.
'''Torg:''' Polar bear
'''Riff:''' Check, check, and checkity-check.
'''Torg:''' Send me back some walrus blubber?
'''Riff:''' Just as soon as I get settled. }}
* Possibly lampshaded in [[Friendly Hostility]] when Fox visits Fatima in Alaska.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* [[Cartoon Network]]'s ''[[What a Cartoon!]]'' featured an episode called "Pizza Boy," where the title character has to deliver a pizza in "[[Thirty Minutes or It's Free|five minutes]]" to
▲== Western Animation ==
** The joke was based on a true story. In the early 1990s a McDonald's franchise was opened in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the first one in northern [[Canada]]. Within a few months it became trendy for Inuit living in the far north to have McDonald's ship pizza and burger orders up via air cargo on the weekly transport. Even after the national office discontinued the McPizza, the Yellowknife franchise still carried them because the demand was so high. In 2000 the franchise earned more profit per square foot than any other franchise in Canada, and 20% of their income was from pizza.▼
▲* [[Cartoon Network]]'s ''What a Cartoon!'' featured an episode called "Pizza Boy," where the title character has to deliver a pizza in "[[Thirty Minutes or It's Free|five minutes]]" to Eskimos at the North Pole, who ordered pizza because they were sick of whale blubber.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', and [[Sequel Series]] ''[[The Legend of Korra]],'' with their shared [[Far East]] fantasy setting, have the Southern and Northern [[Elemental Nation|Water Tribes]], [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture
▲** The joke was based on a true story. In the early 1990s a McDonald's franchise was opened in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the first one in northern Canada. Within a few months it became trendy for Inuit living in the far north to have McDonald's ship pizza and burger orders up via air cargo on the weekly transport. Even after the national office discontinued the McPizza, the Yellowknife franchise still carried them because the demand was so high. In 2000 the franchise earned more profit per square foot than any other franchise in Canada, and 20% of their income was from pizza.
▲* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', and [[Sequel Series]] ''[[The Legend of Korra]],'' with their shared [[Far East]] fantasy setting, have the Southern and Northern [[Elemental Nation|Water Tribes]], [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Fantasy Counterpart Cultures]] that draw primarily from Inuit culture with a smattering of [[Culture Chop Suey|other influences]]. Its presentation combines stereotypical elements ([[Polar Bears and Penguins]] via [[Mix-and-Match Critters]] yields Polar-Bear Dogs and four-winged Penguin Otters, as well as Tiger-Seals, Koala Seals and Sea Ravens) with paradoxical attention to cultural influences in costume and setting design (They live in tents, have outfits other than parkas, unique and varied [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins|beaded hairstyles]] and so on.)
* ''[[Nanooks Great Hunt]]'', a fairly obscure animated series about an Inuit boy on a quest to save his father, who has been captured by a malevolent Polar Bear god. Set in the late 19th century or thereabouts, many episodes revolved around the culture clash between the traditional Inuit ways & the encroaching modern world.
* Averted in the Greenland episode of [[Kika And Bob]] (which is kinda surprising, considering that this animated series often embraces ethnic stereotypes): The Inuits of Greenland live in houses and resent being called "eskimos".
* An episode of [[Hey Arnold!]] ends with Helga's sister [[Stepford Smiler|Olga]] going to Alaska "to teach desperate and underprivileged Inuit children". While they did at least update the terminology, the school building is a lone igloo without electricity in the middle of a frozen wasteland.
== Other Media ==▼
▲== Other ==
* This is the usual setting for Russian "Chukchi" joke stories about natives of Chukotka.
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[[Category:Hollywood Atlas]]
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▲[[Category:Eskimo Land]]
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