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1	->'''Darryl''': So, what are you?\
2	'''Elaine''': I'm white.\
3	'''Darryl''': So, we're just a couple of white people?\
4	'''Elaine''': I guess.\
5	'''Darryl''': Oh.\
6	'''Elaine''': Yeah. So, do you want to go to the Gap?\
7	'''Darryl''': Sure.
8	-->-- ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''
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10	A [[DeadHorseTrope Dead Horse]] if not a completely ForgottenTrope.
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12	A pair of characters (or one of a pair of characters) is in love, but because they are of different ethnicities, they don't actually pair up, out of fear of a MalignedMixedMarriage. Then it's revealed or discovered that they aren't of different ethnicities after all, and everything is fine and they happily get together.
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14	FauxInterracialRelationship is to MalignedMixedMarriage as NotBloodSiblings is to BrotherSisterIncest.
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16	!!Examples:
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21	* In the 1920 film ''Film/TheSymbolOfTheUnconquered'', Hugh Van Allen is afraid to confess to Eve because he thinks she's white. When she reveals that she's a light-skinned black woman at the end of the film, Hugh is elated and kisses her.
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25	* ''Literature/ExemplaryNovels'', by Creator/MiguelDeCervantes: Preciosa, the heroine of ''The Little Gipsy Girl'', is described several times as being more refined than the other UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} girls she is raised alongside. When a young Spanish nobleman falls in love with her, he soon discovers her Spanish heritage and that she was kidnapped and raised by a Roma woman as her granddaughter.
26	* The novel ''Literature/TheSheik'' by E.M. Hull. Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan isn't Arab after all.
27	* Also appears in the sequel, ''Literature/TheSonsOfTheSheik'': Yasmin, the LoveInterest, is actually French.
28	* ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' by Creator/VictorHugo: The Phoebus/Esmeralda relationship is this as Esmeralda is revealed near the end to be a French girl by birth swapped for Quasimodo.
29	* FantasticRacism example in ''Literature/FiveHundredYearsAfter''. Khaavren, the main protagonist, has a MeetCute with his future wife, and toward the end of book mentions that while he loves her, he regrets that their relationship won't work because she is of a different House (basically a race) than he is. She then reveals that while [[CultureEqualsCostume she dresses like a member of one House]], she actually belongs to the same House as him. [[DeliberateValuesDissonance The fictional narrator then comments how great it was that this impediment was cleared up.]]
30	* In ''Love in Translation'' by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, white American Celeste falls in love with the son of her host family whilst on a foreign exchange in Japan. His family doesn't approve, but it later emerges her mother had an affair with a Japanese man and Celeste is actually half-Japanese (although very white-looking.)
31	* In ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheTala'' by Jeffe Kennedy, Rayfe is one of the Tala, magical shapeshifters who are called "demons" by King Uorsin's people. The princess Andromeda's deceased mother, however, passed her Tala lineage and magic on to her daughter [[spoiler:(which coupled with the blood of her father's ancient Tala ancestors),]] making Andromeda qualify as one of the same.
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35	* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
36	** In one episode, Elaine thinks the guy she's going out with is black, but she's not quite sure, and spends the episode trying to find out without directly asking. It turns out he's white and had ''also'' been thinking they were in an interracial relationship-due to mistaking Elaine for Hispanic.
37	** In another episode, Jerry falls for a woman named Chang over the phone, believing that she's Chinese - but it turns out she's Jewish. The family name was originally "Changstein."
38	* ''Series/ColdCase'' had at least one example of the PassFail variation.
39	* A common source of humor in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' is Turk (Black) and Carla's (Hispanic) relationship which is considered interracial, but in certain episodes it's pointed out they are technically both Black (Carla is Dominican, thus Black Hispanic).
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43	* In ''Theatre/TheDesertSong'' the mysterious rebel leader, supposedly an Arab turns out to be the son of the new governor.
44	* The operetta ''Theatre/TheBohemianGirl'': TheIngenue Arline, raised Roma, is really a Polish countess. This operetta was inspired by ''Literature/LaGitanilla''.
45	* The 1930 musical ''Whoopee!'' The heroine believes TheHero Wananis to be a Native American. It turns out he was abandoned as a baby [[RaisedByNatives and is a White guy raised by Native Americans]].
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