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* Estranged sisters Emma and Lyn from ''Series/{{Vida}}'' are accused of not being real Latinas for leaving their neighborhood and returning to make changes to their mother's bar.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette Dupain-Cheng, who as her name suggests has Chinese ancestry, turns out to speak ''terrible'' Mandarin compared to blonde, green-eyed Adrien Agreste. Played for comedy rather than angst or drama when a relative of Marinette's from TheOldCountry comes to visit and Adrien is drafted in to translate while her mother is busy elsewhere, impeded by Marinette's inability to be near Adrien without turning into a [[CrushBlush blushing]], [[GibberishOfLove stammering]] and all-round fangirlish mess.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette Dupain-Cheng, who as her name suggests has Chinese ancestry, turns out to speak ''terrible'' Mandarin compared to blonde, blue-eyed Adrien Agreste. Played for comedy rather than angst or drama when a relative of Marinette's from TheOldCountry comes to visit and Adrien is drafted in to translate while her mother is busy elsewhere, impeded by Marinette's inability to be near Adrien without turning into a [[CrushBlush blushing]], [[GibberishOfLove stammering]] and all-round fangirlish mess.

* Fifth grader Ana Coppola of ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'' has lived in Japan for as long as she can remember. She and her family have integrated to such a degree that Ana has next to no English skill whatsoever and is generally more knowledgeable about Japanese culture than her Japanese peers. This bothers her enough that she tries to ramp up how foreign she is at school and works with her classmate Matsuri to re-learn her mother tongue.

* A Spanish language Goya commercial has a young latina girl telling her mother that she has to make a cultural food for school. Her choice? Nachos. Her family is horrified and they end up making flan instead.

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* Daya from ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' gets scorn from other latina inmates (even her own mother) for being Puerto Rican but being unable to speak Spanish.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette Dupain-Cheng, who as her name suggests has Chinese ancestry, turns out to speak ''terrible'' Mandarin compared to blonde, blue-eyed Adrien Agreste. Played for comedy rather than angst or drama when a relative of Marinette's from TheOldCountry comes to visit and Adrien is drafted in to translate while her mother is busy elsewhere, impeded by Marinette's inability to be near Adrien without turning into a [[CrushBlush blushing]], [[GibberishOfLove stammering]] and all-round {{adorkable}} mess.

** A Qunari Inquisitor will also get this reaction from The Iron Bull if they speak to him about their heritage, Bull is quite insistent than the Inquisitor is ''not'' a Qunari since they were born outside the culture and don't follow the Qun, instead they are a Vashoth (as opposed to their parents, who are Tal Vashoth since they intentionally left). Given the way the Inquisitor reacts to certain phrases Bull uses it's implied they don't really speak Qunlat either.

* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'': This is a real source of angst for Kud. She's ethnically Russian (her full first name is Kudryavka), but she grew up on a fictional Pacific island officially owned by the USSR (a clip from the anime implies she was one of few white people living there) and then spent many years travelling around the world with her [[ButNotTooForeign Japanese grandfather]]; as it was always intended that she attend high school in Japan, she was taught the language from a young age. However, when she does start living in Japan full time, she finds that almost all of her peers simply treat her as a FunnyForeigner type. She tries to fulfill their expectations, but due to her Japanese upbringing and terrible English skills she can't really manage it and ends up disappointing them. (Her Russian seems to be much better, but is also apparently less 'cute.') As a result she ends up feeling very isolated, and like there's no place in the world where she actually belongs.

Compare to MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, TheWhitestBlackGuy, RaisedCatholic, and TransNature. They may try to connect with their heritage further by taking a RediscoveringRootsTrip.

Compare to MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, TheWhitestBlackGuy, RaisedCatholic, and TransNature.

* In ''DWesternAnimationisney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Quasimodo is raised by Frollo completely ignorant of his Roma heritage.

* In ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Quasimodo is raised by Frollo completely ignorant of his Roma heritage.

* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': Played with, with Devi. She's the daughter of first-generation Indian immigrants, and though she grew up in the States, she still practices a lot of traditional customs. She's just not entirely good at them. As a corollary of where she grew up, she also behaves in distinctly "all-American" ways, causing her to clash with her mother and her relatives from Asia.

* Despite her [[PhenotypeStereotype blonde hair and blue eyes]] and western name, the [[ButNotTooForeign half-Scottish]] Lily from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' is Japanese through-and-through. She can barely speak a lick of English and doesn't quite like Scotland.

* ''Manga/MassuguNiIkou'': Hanako didn't know she was a Kishu until she overheard her vet mention it.

* This is the initial conflict of ''ComicBook/DoubleHappiness''. Tom, a Chinese-American from Brooklyn, moves in with some relatives in San Francisco's Chinatown. He doesn't recognize the culture, the food, or even the language his relatives are speaking. This leads him to fear that he's [[TheWhitestBlackGuy too white to be Chinese]].

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* Duncan from ''Series/{{Community}}'' often uses incorrect British terminology as part of a joke. He has lived in America from a young age and doesn't actually know much about British culture.
* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Raj - despite being an Indian - ''hates'' the idea of living in India. The unexpectedness of this is played for comedy, especially since he is stereotypically Indian in other ways - being a [[BollywoodNerd geek]], believing in Hinduism, etc. For instance, in one episode Sheldon's looking for mental challenges and Raj suggests learning Hindi, only to sheepishly admit he never learned Hindi when it turns out Sheldon already did.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'' party member Lisa Silverman has two white American parents who are naturalized Japanese citizens, so you'd expect her to be fluent in English, but she can only speak Japanese and Cantonese as a result of her {{Otaku}} parents wanting her to be a traditional YamatoNadeshiko.

* Ana Sofia from ''Series/{{Telenovela}}'' is the lead of a popular Spanish telenovela but can't speak Spanish at all. HilarityEnsues.