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* '''Straight''': [[PreppyName Clarice Victoria Preston IV]] is the only British character on the show and is more uptight than any of the other characters.

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* '''Straight''': [[PreppyName Clarice Victoria Preston IV]] Preston]] is the only British character on the show and is more uptight than any of the other characters.
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* '''Enforced''': "We have to make Clarice act stuffy [[ViewersAreMorons because that's what an American audience would expect]]."

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* '''Enforced''': "We have to make Clarice act stuffy [[ViewersAreMorons because that's what an American audience would expect]].expect."
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Clarice only hugs or kisses her friends and family if she won't see them again for a very long time, and sometimes speaks in intentional {{understatement}} to avoid sounding overemotional.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''': Clarice is unable to adjust to a more open culture. She dies alone and unloved.
* '''Reconstructed''': Clarice's StiffUpperLip helps her get through a life or death situation.



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* '''Deconstructed''': Clarice is unable to adjust to a more open culture. She dies alone and unloved.
* '''Reconstructed''': Clarice's StiffUpperLip helps her get through a life or death situation.



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* '''Inverted''': Clarice is more open and free-spirited than any of the other characters.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Clarice is more open and free-spirited than any of the other characters.



* '''Subverted''': Everyone assumes Clarice is uptight because she's British, but she actually has a FreudianExcuse.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Everyone assumes Clarice is uptight because she's British, but she actually has a FreudianExcuse.



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** Clarice is an American pretending to be British.
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** Alternatively, Bob (an American) [[StereotypeFlip is more uptight]] than any of the other characters (all British).

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* '''Double Subverted''': But she only responded to her problem by becoming uptight because she was raised to keep a StiffUpperLip.

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* '''Double Subverted''': But she only responded to her problem by becoming uptight because she was raised to keep a StiffUpperLip. By a distant British relative.

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