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{{quote|''I guess that he's trying to pay [[Homage]] to the 1927 version, but here's the thing, Neil... 1927? Not racist. 1980? Horribly, '''horribly''' racist.''|'''[[Bad Movie Beatdown
Tropes are common denominators. Their viewers recognize them, laugh at them or groan at them, but most of us can guess where they're coming from -- specifically, what cultural values are embodied in the trope.
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Very often, the trope in question is [[An Aesop]], and exporting it, or viewing it twenty years later than the time it was created, results in a transformation into a [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]].
See also [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Compare [[Moral Dissonance]], where the show breaks its own morals. Also see [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]], in which it's critical acclaim rather than moral values that is on the line. Also see [[Fair for Its Day]], in which the work actually has ''less'' values dissonance than its contemporaries. See [[Culture Clash]] and [[Innocent Bigot]] for when this happens in-story and [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] for when the author is doing it on purpose. Also see [[Have a Gay Old Time]] and [[Get Thee to
An example of [[Values Dissonance]] between the United Kingdom and the US would be the use of blackface imagery, which formed the centrepiece of the [[BBC]]'s [[Black And White Minstrel Show]] until the 1970s. Blackface was/is also used in other countries, such as Japan, The Netherlands, and Australia, where it does not have the same cultural stigma.
'''WARNING: By its nature, this trope is highly controversial. You may well encounter a custom or belief on this page that you don't think is dissonant at all; you might even be inclined to vehemently defend it. Indeed, concepts of right or wrong or even of what is "proper" are rarely universal in the truest sense of the word. Across all the advanced civilizations of Earth's history, just about anything has been or can potentially be justified, or at least rationalized. So if you see an example here that you disagree with, please refrain from [[Conversation in
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