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[[File:dennis.jpg|link=Dennis the Menace US|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 Expect any Inuit villages to be a mishmash of outdated stereotypes.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 Eskimo who never, ever take off their parkas, and they spend each and every day dog sledding, ice fishing, and seal hunting. They eat nothing but blubber, their ice igloos are their permanent residences ([[Did Not Do the Research|rather than their actual use as temporary shelter]]), and they know nothing about the modern world. And, of course, they send their old people off to die on ice floes.
Note: In some places, especially [[Canada]], the word "Eskimo" itself is considered politically incorrect. It's a mispronunciation of Inuit ("The people" in Inuktitut), with "Inuk" being the term for an individual of this group. On the other hand, "Inuit" itself is specific to a single Eskimo people, and in some places Eskimos who aren't Inuit welcome being called Inuit about as much as Welshmen relish being called English. The natives peoples of Canada (no matter where in Canada they live) and also the far north of the U.S.A.
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== Film ==
* 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
* 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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'''Torg:''' Dogsled operational manual?
'''Riff:''' Check.
'''Torg:''' Polar bear repellant? Igloo-building kit? [[Polar Bears and Penguins|Penguin-bait, with included penguin cook-book?]]
'''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.
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== 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 Eskimos at the North Pole, who ordered pizza because they were sick of whale blubber.
** 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]]s 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.
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