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* AncientAstronauts (if used to imply that the mainly non-white ancient societies most known for their civilizations or monuments lacked the intelligence or ability to do or make those things on their own)

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* AncientAstronauts (if AncientAstronauts: While this trope isn't inherently about race or ethnicity, there can be potentially racist implications if it's used to imply that the mainly ancient non-white ancient societies most known for their civilizations or most famous for their monuments or technological achievements lacked the intelligence or ability to do or make those these things on their own)own without the help of space aliens.

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* ArtisticLicenseIndigenousPeoples
** HollywoodNatives


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* HollywoodNatives
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Tropes about race and racial behaviors in Western media.

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Tropes about race and ethnicity, racial behaviors stereotypes, and ethnic conflict as depicted in Western the media.



** HollywoodNatives



* DivineRaceLift: A deity is depicted with a different ethnicity than they are usually depicted as.



* EqualOpportunityEvil: The villains are willing to hire anyone as their minions, regardless of what minority they may be.

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* EqualOpportunityEvil: The villains are willing to hire anyone as their minions, regardless of what minority they may be.their ethnicity.



* {{Eurabia}}: Xenophobic fears over (mostly brown) immigrants from Muslim countries "replacing" white people in Western countries.

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* {{Eurabia}}: Xenophobic fears over (mostly brown) immigrants from Muslim countries "replacing" or subjugating white people in Western countries.



* HollywoodNatives



* HumansAreWhite: The majority of human characters in a particular setting are members of the exact same race or ethnicity.



* MonochromeCasting

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* MonochromeCastingMonochromeCasting: (Almost) every single character looks to be the same race as one another.
** HumansAreWhite: Most human characters in a sci-fi/fantasy setting are all members of the exact same race or ethnicity, especially the majority group in the region that the work originated from (such as white people in Western countries).



** DivineRaceLift: A deity is depicted with a different ethnicity than they are usually depicted as.



* RacistGrandma: An elderly character who is bigoted and may not understand that it is no longer acceptable to discriminate against people.
* RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often an immigrant and/or minority, travels to their family's country of origin.

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* RacistGrandma: An elderly character who is bigoted bigoted, and may not understand either doesn't know or doesn't care that [[invoked]][[ValuesDissonance it is no longer acceptable to openly discriminate against people.
people]].
* RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often an a foreign-born immigrant and/or minority, (or descendant of recent immigrants), travels to their family's country of origin.



* TokenEnemyMinority: The single member of a hero team who belongs to a species the team is usually against.
* TokenMinority
* TokenMinorityCouple

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* TokenEnemyMinority: The single member of a hero team who belongs to a species race that the team is usually fighting against.
* TokenMinority
TokenMinority: The only character among the main cast who's a member of a minority ethnic group.
* TokenMinorityCoupleTokenMinorityCouple: Two characters who are both minorities start dating.



* TokenWhite: The only Caucasian in a cast of ethnic characters.

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* TokenWhite: The only Caucasian in person of European descent among a cast full of ethnic characters.non-white people.



* UnfortunateImplications: A work is criticized for featuring content that comes off as unintentionally offensive.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt

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* UnfortunateImplications: A work is criticized for featuring content that comes off as unintentionally offensive.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt
WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Stereotypes of black men lusting after white women and vice versa.



* YellowPeril: Xenophobic fears over East Asian people somehow subjugating (white) Western people.

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* YellowPeril: Xenophobic fears over East Asian people somehow "replacing" or subjugating (white) Western people.
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* ArtisticLicenseIndigenousPeoples
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* RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often an immigrant and/or minority, travels to their family's origin.

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* RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often an immigrant and/or minority, travels to their family's country of origin.

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* AcceptableEthnicTargets

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* AcceptableEthnicTargetsAcceptableEthnicTargets: Ethnic/racial groups that are widely considered okay to make fun of.



* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu

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* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFuAllAsiansKnowMartialArts
** AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu
* AllJewsAreAshkenazi



* BadassNative

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* BadassNativeBadassNative: Aboriginal/indigenous/native tribespeople are depicted as being more brave and tough than members of more "civilized" foreign nations.



** {{Brownface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with Hispanics or Native Americans.
** {{Yellowface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with East Asians.
* CaptainEthnic: A superhero whose theme is their race or nationality.

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** {{Brownface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with Hispanics "brown people" (anyone with a brownish skin tone that's not black or Native Americans.
white).
** {{Yellowface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" or "brown people" with East Asians.
"East Asian people".
* CaptainEthnic: A superhero whose theme is their race ethnicity or nationality.



* {{Eurabia}}

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* {{Eurabia}}{{Eurabia}}: Xenophobic fears over (mostly brown) immigrants from Muslim countries "replacing" white people in Western countries.



* FakeNationality: An actor plays a character of a nationality that they are not.

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* FakeNationality: An actor plays a character of a an ethnicity or nationality that they are not.



* HalfBreedDiscrimination

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* HalfBreedDiscriminationHalfBreedDiscrimination: Racism against people who are [[MixedAncestry multiethnic or multiracial]].



* HumansAreWhite
* IdenticalLookingAsians: The racist stereotype that Asians are impossible to tell apart.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures

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* HumansAreWhite
HumansAreWhite: The majority of human characters in a particular setting are members of the exact same race or ethnicity.
* IdenticalLookingAsians: The racist stereotype that Asians individual (East) Asian people are impossible to tell apart.
apart from one another.
* InterchangeableAsianCulturesInterchangeableAsianCultures: Cultural stereotypes of China, Korea, Japan, etc which treat the people from all these different regions as being exactly or mostly the same as each other.



* SpaceJews

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* SpaceJewsSpaceJews: A fictional non-human species which resemble a particular stereotype of a real-life human ethnic group.



* YellowPeril

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* YellowPerilYellowPeril: Xenophobic fears over East Asian people somehow subjugating (white) Western people.
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** {{Yellowface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with Asians.

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** {{Yellowface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with East Asians.
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* BlackRepublican
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* RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often an immigrant and/or minority, travels to their family's origin.
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* AffirmativeActionLegacy

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* AffirmativeActionLegacyAffirmativeActionLegacy: If involving the white hero gaining a non-white successor.



* AmbiguouslyBrown

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* AmbiguouslyBrownAmbiguouslyBrown: A character has brownish skin, but it's not clear whether that should indicate their ethnicity.



* {{Blackface}}
** {{Brownface}}
** {{Yellowface}}
* CaptainEthnic

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* {{Blackface}}
{{Blackface}}: A racist performance involving non-black people wearing makeup to look like black people.
** {{Brownface}}
{{Brownface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with Hispanics or Native Americans.
** {{Yellowface}}
{{Yellowface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with Asians.
* CaptainEthnicCaptainEthnic: A superhero whose theme is their race or nationality.



* ChocolateBaby

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* ChocolateBaby ChocolateBaby: A baby doesn't look much like one or both of their parents, hinting that their mother may have cheated on her husband with the child's real father. The child being a different ethnicity may be an indicator.



* ColorMeBlack

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* ColorMeBlackColorMeBlack: A racist gets turned into the very ethnicity they despise.



* DashingHispanic

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* DashingHispanicDashingHispanic: A Hispanic man who is very handsome.



* DivineRaceLift

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* DivineRaceLiftDivineRaceLift: A deity is depicted with a different ethnicity than they are usually depicted as.



* DubNameChange
* ElectricBlackGuy
* EqualOpportunityEvil
* EthnicityObscuringMutation

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* DubNameChange
DubNameChange: A translation of a work changes a character's name.
* ElectricBlackGuy
ElectricBlackGuy: A black person with electrical powers.
* EqualOpportunityEvil
EqualOpportunityEvil: The villains are willing to hire anyone as their minions, regardless of what minority they may be.
* EthnicityObscuringMutationEthnicityObscuringMutation: A person of color undergoes a transformation where it is now impossible to tell what ethnicity they are.



* EthnicScrappy

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* EthnicScrappyEthnicScrappy: A character is disliked for being a racial stereotype.



* EverythingIsRacist

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* EverythingIsRacistEverythingIsRacist: Anything and everything can potentially be misconstrued as racist or otherwise offensive.



* FakeMixedRace
* FakeNationality
* {{Fauxreigner}}

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* FakeMixedRace
FakeMixedRace: A mixed race character is played by an actor who isn't really mixed race.
* FakeNationality
FakeNationality: An actor plays a character of a nationality that they are not.
* {{Fauxreigner}}{{Fauxreigner}}: An apparent foreigner is actually someone pretending to be a non-native or a different nationality from the one they actually are.



* FlawlessToken

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* FlawlessTokenFlawlessToken: A minority character who never does any wrong and gets better treatment than the other characters.



* FrenchJerk
* FunnyForeigner

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* FrenchJerk
FrenchJerk: A French person who is very mean.
* FunnyForeignerFunnyForeigner: A foreign character who provides humor through their bizarre customs and being out-of-touch with the customs of the country they're currently living in.



* IdenticalLookingAsians

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* IdenticalLookingAsiansIdenticalLookingAsians: The racist stereotype that Asians are impossible to tell apart.



* MistakenForRacist

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* MistakenForRacistMistakenForRacist: A character accidentally says or does something that can be interpreted as racist.



* NWordPrivileges

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* NWordPrivilegesNWordPrivileges: The state of being allowed to say a racial slur and how it's mainly acceptable to say only by the people the slur is aimed at.



* RaceLift

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* RaceLiftRaceLift: The adaptation changes a character's ethnicity.



* RacistGrandma

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* RacistGrandmaRacistGrandma: An elderly character who is bigoted and may not understand that it is no longer acceptable to discriminate against people.



* StereotypeReactionGag

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* StereotypeReactionGagStereotypeReactionGag: A minority character gets angry at another character suggesting a stereotype about them before confirming it themselves.



* TokenEnemyMinority

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* TokenEnemyMinorityTokenEnemyMinority: The single member of a hero team who belongs to a species the team is usually against.



* TokenWhite

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* TokenWhiteTokenWhite: The only Caucasian in a cast of ethnic characters.



* UnfortunateImplications

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* UnfortunateImplicationsUnfortunateImplications: A work is criticized for featuring content that comes off as unintentionally offensive.



* YouAreACreditToYourRace

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* YouAreACreditToYourRaceYouAreACreditToYourRace: A bigot gives a backhanded compliment to a minority by saying that they are better than the rest of their kind.
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%%* * HalfBreedAngst
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* UsefulNotes/GermanRussians
* GoodFlawsBadFlaws

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%%* GoodFlawsBadFlaws
* UsefulNotes/GermanRussians
* GoodFlawsBadFlaws
GorgeousGaijin
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* HalfBreedAngst

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* %%* HalfBreedAngst
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* HalfBreedAngst
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* RoguishRomani
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+ HispanicAndLatinoIndex
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* MoreDiverseSequel: A sequel can have more racial or ethnic minorities than its predecessor.

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++ RaceFetish



* {{Brownface}}

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* {{Brownface}}** {{Brownface}}
** {{Yellowface}}



* MistakenNationality

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* ** MistakenNationality



* RaceFetish



* {{Yellowface}}
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* EthnicityObscuringMutation
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* MagicalJew
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* AfricaIsACountry

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correcting place of Barbarian Tropes


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* BarbarianTropes
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++ StereotypesOfChinesePeople



+ StereotypesOfChinesePeople
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This is a sub-category of Black Index.


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