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* ''[[The Soloist]]'' is about a white journalist who finds and befriends a black homeless man, who turns out to be a former musical prodigy before developing schizophrenia.
* [[Robert Sheckley]]'s short story "Human Man's Burden" is a parody of this trope, using robots instead of some non-white ethnicity.
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** Dobby himself mentions that when Dumbledore hired him he tried to give Dobby the same pay and benefits as an average human working schlub, and Dobby, insisting that he is unusual but not inelfin, talked him down to wages that are just short of slavery.
*** He also mentions that he's now the only one that will clean the Griffindor girls' rooms, because Hermione has been hiding clothing in various places trying to ''trick'' house elves into picking them up and being freed. That's right... on some level Hermione understands that the elves don't want her "help", but she knows better and by God she's going to make them take it.
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