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[[Series/DaAliGShow Is it because it is black?]] White Rastas, white hip-hop fans/artists, etc. It never seems to matter if they were actually raised in that culture and just enjoying what they grew up around. White people should "act white," whatever that means. Becomes UnfortunateImplications if a white person who is loud, crass, and belligerent with a love for gaudy jewelry and ringtone rap is "acting black." Especially bad when the "wigger" in question (let's not get started on all the things wrong with that word) is not even white but Latino, Native, etc. Also consider that if a black character acts stereotypically "white," nothing is wrong with this, implying that, while whiteness is something to be aspired to, only someone who actually ''is'' black would enjoy the culture. In the real world, black people can share horror stories of ostracism and abuse by [[MalcolmXerox 'real' blacks]] because they [[NoTrueScotsman act 'too white']].

* In {{Canada|Eh}}, the hick jokes get replaced with either Alberta jokes or Newfie jokes, for being stupid. Also expect some gratuitous Quebec mockery, for being French.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players have been known to use kobolds as AcceptableTargets for pseudo-ethnic jokes. (Q: What do the kobold invaders arm their siege catapults with? A: Volunteers. Twang-zoom-splat, another one bites the dust ... )

* Wealthy people who take up political and social causes tend to become AcceptableTargets very quickly; no one likes being lectured to about how they should give away more of their money and time to help make the world a better place by people who have far more money and time to donate than the people being lectured to ever will, especially considering that the money these wealthy people spend on extravagant luxuries for themselves could perhaps be better spent elsewhere, thus leading to charges of hypocrisy and being out-of-touch with those they're trying to help.

* Wealthy people who take up political and social causes tend to become AcceptablePoliticalTargets very quickly; no one likes being lectured to about how they should give away more of their money and time to help make the world a better place by people who have far more money and time to donate than the people being lectured to ever will, especially considering that the money these wealthy people spend on extravagant luxuries for themselves could perhaps be better spent elsewhere, thus leading to charges of hypocrisy and being out-of-touch with those they're trying to help.

* ''Film/DieHard'' The [[AcceptableEthnicTargets Germans]]

* Mint Blancmanche in the ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' games is targeted by her EvilCounterpart because her money comes from her parents' business dealings, and his comes from very old inheritance. Of course, in [[Anime/GalaxyAngel the anime]], she's a heartless brat, and she takes ''great'' pleasure in extorting Anise in ''Galaxy Angel II''.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' deals with a bully who "hates kids with funny accents". It turns on him in the end when he accidentally gets hit in the face and the bloating creates an accent for himself.

** This was politically-corrected from the ''original'' Disney [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]], who was as penny-pinching and stingy as his namesake Ebenezer Scrooge.

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* Cecilia from ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'' is an old money snob who thinks she’s superior to everyone else, spares no expense in making herself comfortable, and throws her weight (i.e. money) around to get her way.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' {{DLC}} [[DeepSouth 'Point Lookout']], one branch of enemies are... Well, [[RefugeInAudacity grossly exaggerated]] hillbilly stereotypes. They live in run-down wooden shacks. They dress in torn workers' jeans. They are hideously deformed by inbreeding. Their mental capacity has devolved to the point where they can only speak short sentences (in thick dialects, of course) and [[DumbMuscle attack everything that moves]], wielding double-barrel shotguns, [[AxCrazy axes]] and {{shovel|Strike}}. They brew moonshine. [[IAmAHumanitarian They eat people.]] Also, they are registered in the games programming as creatures rather than [=NPCs=].

* This seems to be inverted in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''. Flamboyant [[UnclePennybags Auntie Pennybags]]/RichBitch Yukihiro Ayaka is all you can expect from the daughter of a major ''[[MegaCorp Zaibatsu]]'' and then some. Then we find out that said rival's roommate, the somewhat spacey but rather good-natured Konoe Konoka, happens to be one of ''those'' Konoes and despite [[ModestRoyalty living in an ordinary dorm room]] calls a [[BigFancyHouse massive estate in Kyoto]] her family home.

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* An episode of WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory deals with a bully who "hates kids with funny accents". It turns on him in the end when he accidentally gets hit in the face and the bloating creates an accent for himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The Kanker Sisters seem to qualify - three loud, boorish girls who live in a trailer park, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar are noted to have three different fathers]], have a [[ComedicSociopathy startlingly]] [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunctional]] family dynamic, and seem to have no problems whatsoever bullying random children. And when it comes to how they interact with the Eds... Well, the censors may have been stoned at the time.

* ''Film/ThePunisher'' a lackey with long hair is singled out for the most brutal death, despite having almost no screen time.

* This trope is a favorite of crime dramas. It generally pits the "salt of the earth" cops against the wealthy snobs, and throws in the complication of the system being against the cop too, since being rich obviously means having connections to politically powerful people. The moral seems to be that having a lot of money doesn't make you above the law, but the FamilyUnfriendlyAesop seems to be that being rich means you're a criminal. Seriously, when's the last time you saw someone rich on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' who wasn't either guilty of something or protecting a family member who was?

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* For the most part, the "old money" crowd is treated as a bunch of inhumane, amoral [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]] who don't give a fig for the rest of humanity in the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''. One of the regular themes was a heroic scientist creating some amazing breakthrough that made him "new money" wealthy, and then having to deal with the "old money" types sneering at them.
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Related to the above. As WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick put it in her review of ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'', it’s not as if the Hun lobby is going to make a lot of complaints. (Unless you're Mongolian.)

* This seems to be inverted in ''MahouSenseiNegima''. Flamboyant [[UnclePennybags Auntie Pennybags]]/RichBitch Yukihiro Ayaka is all you can expect from the daughter of a major ''[[MegaCorp Zaibatsu]]'' and then some. Then we find out that said rival's roommate, the somewhat spacey but rather good-natured Konoe Konoka, happens to be one of ''those'' Konoes and despite [[ModestRoyalty living in an ordinary dorm room]] calls a [[BigFancyHouse massive estate in Kyoto]] her family home.

* Somewhat averted with [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Scrooge McDuck]]. While he's undoubtedly a cheapskate and an anti-social curmudgeon, he has been shown to have earned his money through a combination of back-breaking work and challenging expeditions. Also, while he doesn't give generously to general charities, when he personally comes across someone he feels is deserving, his generosity tends to be overflowing.

** Even today, Scrooge's generosity isn't "overflowing," more like "begrudging." Still, he knows to put this family before his money and also, in a rare example for acceptable targets, Scrooge's faults for being just a selfish rich guy are largely the things that make him so much fun, if not endearing.

* One of the ultimate examples of this is Lady Constance in ''GosfordPark'', an utterly horrible, snobbish, snide and mean-spirited aristocrat who looks down on anyone who doesn't have a title, despite the fact that she's probably the most useless character in the entire movie possessing no trade, skills or abilities whatsoever - she can't even open a flask of coffee by herself. She's also a total hypocrite, seeing as her fancy title was actually 'bought' for her, her brother being a wealthy industrialist who supports her.

* Thomas Guthrie, ''Man and the Gospel'' (1865) "You may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." (A similar sentiment has been attributed to DorothyParker, but it seems to be a misattribution, and anyway, Guthrie definitely said it first.)

* [[{{Ruritania}} Non-existent Eastern European countries]] are a particular favorite, including Latka Gravas's Caspiar (an island in the real-life Caspian Sea, which Gravas said had sank) on ''{{Taxi}}'', Balki Bartokomous's Mypos on ''Perfect Strangers'', and ''Borat'' 's fictitious Kazakhstan, which shares its name with an actual country. ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s Elbonia is at one extreme with inhabitants who are barely human, while Genovia in ''The Princess Diaries'' seems to be a prosperous, modern duchy except for its antiquated laws of inheritance.

* Most of the Goodkind family in the WhateleyUniverse, and ALL of the Walcutts.

* TheTwoRonnies used a lot of old Irish Jokes recast as Yokel jokes. As Ronnie B put it, no one has yet written in a complaint letter starting ''"Dear Sir, I am a Yokel"''.

* RockyAndBullwinkle live in the town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota. At least, it is considered part of the United States at the time the show's taking place, as neither the United States nor Canada want to consider it part of their country. Based on International Falls, Minnesota, considered the coldest city in the continental United States.

** An animated example would be Pottsylvania from the ''RockyAndBullwinkle'' series.

* [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy The Kanker Sisters]] seem to qualify - three loud, boorish girls who live in a trailer park, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar are noted to have three different fathers]], have a [[ComedicSociopathy startlingly]] [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunctional]] family dynamic, and seem to have no problems whatsoever bullying random children. And when it comes to how they interact with the Eds... Well, the censors may have been stoned at the time.

* [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Kenny's family]] as well in universe as by the show itself.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': "To Live and Die in Dixie" showed Southerners as being genuinely good people, if somewhat backwards. That's pretty much the only positive thing the show has had on this subject.
** SethMacFarlane, while hosting a ''Family Guy'' marathon on Cartoon Network, addressed the idea that he seemed to hate the South and everyone from there or whether he was just doing it in good fun. He assured the viewers he really does hate every single Southerner.