History Main / HalfBreedDiscrimination

* ''Film/InvitationtoAGunfighter'': Jules Gaspard d'Estaing explains to Ruth what growing as a Creole of colour (with a white well-to-do Southern father and a quadroon mother) in New Orleans meant: was raised with a cultured background, grounded in English and French, taught to play the harpsichord, outwardly appearing erudite and gentlemanly in appearance and manner, but raised to know his Creole place.

* ''Series/AnyDayNow'' cites this when the dark-skinned Renee runs for District Attorney. Her campaign manager is a light-skinned, biracial woman, and the two almost immediately clash, with Renee taking every suggestion the woman makes as an example of ButNotTooBlack. Only when the woman finally blasts her for her nasty attitude and tells Renee that she will not apologize for being proud of her multicultural heritage does Renee realize that she's been just as bad.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': [[BlowYouAway Whirlwind]] suffered from this in her backstory. Being the child of a {{Unicorn}} and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Air dragon]], she was shunned by unicorn and dragon alike, with neither of them liking the traits the other race gave her: dragons shunned her for her beauty and horn, while unicorns disliked her wings and ability to fly. As a result, she became a solitary individual, learning to harness her WeatherManipulation powers in storm clouds. However, when Trolls began hunting both dragons and unicorns alike, Whirlwind didn't hesitate to defend them, making dragons and unicorns look at her in a different light, and [[BigGood Master Eon]] decided to make her a Skylander as a result of her actions.

*** Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon:
** This was {{Subverted}} to Towa who was ironically Sesshomaru's daughter, the main reason being that she was raised by the Higurashi family.
** However this is also the reason why Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha were kept in hiding due to the fact that their separation was caused by a {{Yandere}} racist demon named Zero who became jealous of Izayoi earning the affections of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father. This is most notable with Setsuna who was taken in by Shiori and was reluctant to explore the human world.

* ''Film/WhereHandsTouch'': Leyna suffers from this continually, as a result of her biracial ancestry, growing up in Nazi Germany. Simply having her appearance means she constantly stands out from everyone else, and she's under the threat of being sterilized for her ancestry. After she gets pregnant from a white German boy, both she and her child are in mortal peril.

* ''Fanfic/MyDeepestDarkestSecret'': This is the main reason why Solon hides the fact that he's actually a werewolf-vampire hybrid from his brothers. Later chapters reveal that [[spoiler: hunters are looking for him.]]

* Creator/MeghanMarkle described going through this personally and professionally. Even now, white detractors of her marriage to [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]] make it clear that they still consider her black, as evidenced by the slurs leveled at them from the moment it was revealed that they were dating--including a neo-Nazi group deeming Harry a "race traitor" and calling for his assassination--while black detractors snidely suggest that the only reason she snagged him is because of how [[ButNotTooBlack light-skinned she is]] and that she would never have had a chance had she been darker or otherwise lack sympathy regarding the above-mentioned racism, insinuating that she deserves it for supposedly denying her African-American heritage--something she has ''never'' done. Their son Archie wasn't exempt from this either, with Harry revealing during the couple's notorious interview with Creator/OprahWinfrey that a family member (who he refused to identify, only to emphasize that it was neither of his grandparents)[[note]] A late 2021 book revealed that it was his father, Prince Charles. [[/note]] had expressed "concern" as to what his skin tone would be.

* Due to society’s overall hatred of Humans in ''Literature/AnOutcastInAnotherWorld'', Elves in The Village with nonstandard Elven hair colors are considered to have Human blood in them, which is seen as a mark of shame. Interestingly, no instances are shown of this discrimination coming from external sources – Tarric himself is the only one who gets upset if people point out his hair color, even if they do so innocently.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "{{Literature/Segregationist}}": The [[TheNamesake titular character]] is opposed to the idea of [[ArtificialHybrid merging the human and Metallo (robot) forms]] by giving metal replacements to humans and fibrous replacements to Metallos. They find the idea abhorrent, preferring to stay as close to their original creation as possible.
-->"You'd get a hybrid," said the surgeon, with something that approached fierceness. "You'd get something that is not both, but neither. Isn't it logical to suppose an individual would be too proud of his structure and identity to want to dilute it with something alien? Would he want mongrelization?"

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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': [[Characters/SupernaturalNephilim Nephilim]] ([[HalfHumanHybrid half-human, half-angel offspring]]) are viewed as abominations by angels and the conception of them is forbidden, with the sentence for breaking this taboo usually being death of both the Nephilim and their angelic parent -- although to be fair of the angels, this is at least partly motivated by the dubious belief that Nephilim cause entire worlds to die once they grow into their power. Season 13 reveals that Nephilim are naturally even more powerful than the angel who sired them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' is bullied by the town dogs for being half wolf. [[WesternAnimation/BaltoIIWolfQuest The sequel]] has the same thing but with wolves looking down on him and his daughter for being half-dog and 3/4 dog respectively.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' is bullied by the town dogs for being half wolf.

Subtrope of ChildOfTwoWorlds and ContemptCrossfire. Compare MalignedMixedMarriage. And possibly, ThatThingIsNotMyChild. Contrast ButNotTooBlack and ButNotTooForeign, in which people with mixed ancestry are treated ''better'' than ones who have only minority or foreign ancestry, as well as the OneDropRule, in which this ancestry is so far back on the family tree that nothing remains visible of it, and yet still causes this kind of harsh treatment. Compare and contrast MixedAncestryIsAttractive, since fetishization often goes hand-in-hand with prejudice.

-->-- '''Cher''', "Half Breed"

** Drifts all over the place with Anglo-Indians in the Indian subcontinent. Those born to white mothers in mixed-race couples were typically given the “one drop rule” treatment while those born to British fathers occupied a special mid-tier between colonials and natives. After the 1857 sepoy mutiny, Anglo-Indians of patrilineal descent faced distrust from both sides and their opportunities became severely restricted. Post Independence, however, saw Anglo-Indian communities being given protected status in India’s equivalent of affirmative action.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead The Drumhead]]", a medical technician named Simon Tarses is interrogated about an incident aboard ship. During the interrogation, he is questioned about his enlistment and accused of lying about his parentage. Specifically, his paternal grandfather was not Vulcan (a Federation race) as he stated on the application but instead was ''Romulan'' (an enemy). Tarses is devastated because he fears this will end his career, even though Picard assures him that he is a good man.