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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 Expect any Inuit villages to be a mishmash of outdated stereotypes.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 of the North]]'', helped perpetuate a lot of these stereotypes, as exact realism was not a major concern for documentarians in those days.
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== [[Music]] ==
* Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" tells the story of an
* Zigzagged with the album ''Eskimo'' by [[The Residents]].
* "Quinn the Eskimo" ("The Mighty Quinn") by [[Bob Dylan]]
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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
** 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.)
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