| 1 | Tropes about race and ethnicity, racial stereotypes, and ethnic conflict as depicted in the media. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Also see PrejudiceTropes. Not to be confused with TheBigRace. The StandardFantasyRaces and LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces are categories of fantasy creatures rather than human ethnic groups. |
| 4 | ---- |
| 5 | !!Tropes: |
| 6 | [[index]] |
| 7 | [floatboxright: |
| 8 | '''Main topic:''' |
| 9 | + Analysis.RaceTropes |
| 10 | |
| 11 | '''Related indexes:''' |
| 12 | + BarbarianTropes |
| 13 | + EvilRaceTropes |
| 14 | + FantasticRacism |
| 15 | + ImmigrationAndDiasporaTropes |
| 16 | + InterracialAndInterspeciesLoveIndex |
| 17 | ++ RaceFetish |
| 18 | + MagicalMinorityPerson |
| 19 | + MediaDiversityTropes |
| 20 | + NationalStereotypes |
| 21 | + PositiveStereotypeTropes |
| 22 | + TokenIndex |
| 23 | |
| 24 | '''Specific categories:''' |
| 25 | + AsianIndex |
| 26 | ++ StereotypesOfChinesePeople |
| 27 | + BlackIndex |
| 28 | + HispanicAndLatinoIndex |
| 29 | + NativeAmericansTropes |
| 30 | + ANiceJewishIndex |
| 31 | + WhiteIndex |
| 32 | ] |
| 33 | * AffirmativeActionLegacy: If involving the white hero gaining a non-white successor. |
| 34 | * AfricaIsACountry |
| 35 | * AllAsiansKnowMartialArts |
| 36 | * AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu |
| 37 | * AllJewsAreAshkenazi: The stereotype that all Jews are ethnic Ashkenazis from Central/Eastern Europe. |
| 38 | * AllMuslimsAreArab: The stereotype that all Muslims are ethnic Arabs or speak Arabic. |
| 39 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: A character has brown skin but unknown ethnicity. |
| 40 | * AngryBlackManStereotype |
| 41 | * AngryWhiteMan |
| 42 | * AnimeChineseGirl |
| 43 | * BadassNative: Aboriginal/indigenous/native tribespeople are depicted as being more brave and tough than members of more "civilized" foreign nations. |
| 44 | * BalkanBastard |
| 45 | * BigotWithABadge: Nothing noble about this racist cop. |
| 46 | * BlackRepublican |
| 47 | * BlackVikings |
| 48 | * {{Blackface}}: A racist performance involving non-black people wearing makeup to look like black people. |
| 49 | * BlackfaceStyleCaricature: Exaggerated cartoon depictions of black people that resemble blackface. |
| 50 | * {{Brownface}}: A racist performance involving non-brown people wearing makeup to look like "brown people" (anyone with a brownish skin tone that's not black or white). |
| 51 | * CaptainEthnic: A superhero whose theme is their ethnicity or nationality. |
| 52 | * TheChiefsDaughter |
| 53 | * ChildOfTwoWorlds |
| 54 | * ChineseLaborer |
| 55 | * ChineseLaunderer |
| 56 | * 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. |
| 57 | * CircassianBeauty |
| 58 | * ColorMeBlack: A racist gets turned into the very ethnicity they despise. |
| 59 | * CultureEqualsCostume |
| 60 | * DashingHispanic: A Hispanic man who is very handsome. |
| 61 | * DehumanizingInsult |
| 62 | * DivineRaceLift: A deity is depicted with a different ethnicity than they are usually depicted as. |
| 63 | * DragonLady |
| 64 | * DubNameChange: A translation of a work changes a character's name. |
| 65 | * ElectricBlackGuy: A black person with [[ShockAndAwe electrical superpowers]]. |
| 66 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: The villains are willing to hire anyone as their minions, regardless of their race or ethnicity. |
| 67 | * EthnicGod |
| 68 | * EthnicMagician |
| 69 | * EthnicMenialLabor |
| 70 | * EthnicScrappy: A character is disliked for being an offensive racial stereotype. |
| 71 | * EthnicityMonarch |
| 72 | * {{Eurabia}}: Xenophobic fears over (mostly brown) immigrants from Muslim countries "replacing" or subjugating white people in Western countries. |
| 73 | * EuropeansAreKinky |
| 74 | * EverythingIsRacist: Anything and everything can potentially be misconstrued as racist or otherwise offensive. |
| 75 | * EvilColonialist (not always but quite often related to race and racism) |
| 76 | * FacialProfiling |
| 77 | * FailingATaxi |
| 78 | * FakeMixedRace: A mixed-race character is played by an actor who isn't really mixed race. |
| 79 | * FakeNationality: An actor plays a character of an ethnicity or nationality that they are not. |
| 80 | * {{Fauxreigner}}: An apparent foreigner is actually someone pretending to be a non-native or a different nationality from the one they actually are. |
| 81 | * FauxInterracialRelationship |
| 82 | * FiveTokenBand |
| 83 | * FlawlessToken: A minority character who never does any wrong and gets better treatment than the other characters. |
| 84 | * ForeignCultureFetish |
| 85 | * ForeignRulingClass |
| 86 | * FrenchJerk: A French person who is very mean. |
| 87 | * FunnyForeigner: 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. |
| 88 | * GentileJewChaser |
| 89 | * GermanicDepressives |
| 90 | * GermanicEfficiency |
| 91 | * GorgeousGaijin |
| 92 | * GorgeousGreek |
| 93 | * HalfBreedAngst |
| 94 | * HalfBreedDiscrimination: Racism against people who are multiethnic or multiracial. |
| 95 | * HeelRaceTurn |
| 96 | * HeritageDisconnect |
| 97 | * HidingYourHeritage |
| 98 | * HollywoodNatives: Stereotypical aboriginal/indigenous/native tribespeople. |
| 99 | * HotGypsyWoman: Romani women are stereotyped as being beautiful in a very sensual way. |
| 100 | * 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). |
| 101 | * InterchangeableAsianCultures: 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. |
| 102 | * IndianMaiden |
| 103 | * InscrutableOriental |
| 104 | * InterracialAdoptionStruggles |
| 105 | * InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace |
| 106 | * IntimidatingWhitePresence |
| 107 | * IrishmanAndAJew |
| 108 | * LatinLover |
| 109 | * LatinoIsBrown |
| 110 | * LikeGoesWithLike |
| 111 | * LostTribe: An extremely isolated ethnic group which lives separately from the rest of global human society. |
| 112 | * MagicalAsian |
| 113 | * MagicalJew |
| 114 | * MagicalNativeAmerican: Indigenous American people are stereotyped as having magical powers or greater spiritual awareness. |
| 115 | * MagicalNegro |
| 116 | * MagicalRomani: Romani people are stereotyped as having magical powers, often acting as {{Fortune Teller}}s who can also put {{gypsy curse}}s on their enemies. |
| 117 | * MalcolmXerox |
| 118 | * {{Mammy}} |
| 119 | * MightyWhitey |
| 120 | * MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow |
| 121 | * MinorityPoliceOfficer |
| 122 | * MinorityShowGhetto |
| 123 | * MinstrelShows |
| 124 | * MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome |
| 125 | * MistakenEthnicity: Incorrectly guessing someone's ethnic/racial heritage. |
| 126 | * MistakenForForeigner: Someone is mistakenly assumed to not be a native citizen of their own country, often because they're members of an ethnic minority group full of recent immigrants. |
| 127 | * MistakenForRacist: A character accidentally says or does something that can be (mis)interpreted as being racist. |
| 128 | * MistakenForTerrorist: Most variations of this trope involve someone who is of North African / West Asian / South Asian (or otherwise AmbiguouslyBrown) ethnicity being mistaken for some sort of {{Middle Eastern Terrorist|s}}, regardless of actual racial heritage or ideological beliefs. |
| 129 | * MistakenNationality: Incorrectly guessing someone's country of origin. |
| 130 | * MixedAncestryIsAttractive: Being mixed race is considered exotic/attractive InUniverse. |
| 131 | * ModernMinstrelsy |
| 132 | * MoreDiverseSequel: A sequel can have more racial or ethnic minorities than its predecessor. |
| 133 | * MonochromeCasting: (Almost) every single character looks to be the same race as one another. |
| 134 | * {{Mukokuseki}} |
| 135 | * MultinationalTeam: A team of heroes has members from different countries, race or ethnicity. |
| 136 | * TheNativeRival |
| 137 | * TheNativesAreRestless |
| 138 | * NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: When a {{time travel}}er from the future who happens to be a member of some historically persecuted ethnic group visits the wrong time and place (i.e. a black American at the height of Jim Crow segregation), well needless to say they're going to get the [[DeliberateValuesDissonance complete historical racism experience]]. |
| 139 | * NorseByNorsewest |
| 140 | * NoWomansLand |
| 141 | * NWordPrivileges: 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. |
| 142 | * OneDropRule |
| 143 | * OperatorFromIndia |
| 144 | * {{Orientalism}} |
| 145 | * OutsideInsideSlur |
| 146 | * PassFail |
| 147 | * PeopleOfHairColor |
| 148 | * PersecutionFlip |
| 149 | * PhenotypeStereotype |
| 150 | * PissTakeRap |
| 151 | * PlayingUpTheStereotype: A character pretends to have the stereotypical traits of their race. |
| 152 | * PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy |
| 153 | * {{Profiling}} |
| 154 | * RaceLift: The adaptation changes a character's ethnicity. |
| 155 | * RaceNameBasis |
| 156 | * RacialFaceBlindness: The racist stereotype that individual people of other races are impossible to tell apart from one another. |
| 157 | * RacialRemnant |
| 158 | * RacialTransformation: A character's race is changed permanently, or at any rate in a manner more long-term than make-up, using some kind of fantasy or SF mechanism. |
| 159 | * RacistGrandma: An elderly character who is bigoted, and either doesn't know or doesn't care that [[invoked]][[ValuesDissonance it is no longer acceptable to openly discriminate against people]]. |
| 160 | * RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often a foreign-born immigrant (or descendant of recent immigrants), travels to their family's country of origin. |
| 161 | * RoguishRomani |
| 162 | * RussianGuySuffersMost |
| 163 | * SameRaceMeansRelated: Characters of the same ethnic background are assumed or revealed to be related. |
| 164 | * SassyBlackWoman |
| 165 | * ScaryBlackMan |
| 166 | * ScaryMinoritySuspect |
| 167 | * SensualSlavs: Eastern European women are stereotyped as being beautiful in a very seductive way. |
| 168 | * ServantRace |
| 169 | * SexyScandinavian |
| 170 | * ShiksaGoddess |
| 171 | * SizableSemiticNose: Jews, Arabs, and other Semitic peoples are depicted with large, hooked noses. |
| 172 | * SlaveRace |
| 173 | * SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX |
| 174 | * SonOfAnApe |
| 175 | * SoulBrotha |
| 176 | * SpaceJews: A fictional non-human species which resemble a particular stereotype of a real-life human ethnic group. |
| 177 | * SpicyLatina |
| 178 | * StarbucksSkinScale |
| 179 | * StereotypeFlip |
| 180 | * StereotypeReactionGag: A minority character gets angry at another character suggesting a stereotype about them before confirming it themselves. |
| 181 | * StiffUpperLip |
| 182 | * SuddenlyEthnicity |
| 183 | * TokenEnemyMinority: The single member of a hero team who belongs to a race that the team is usually fighting against. |
| 184 | * TokenMinority: The only character among the main cast who's a member of a minority ethnic group. |
| 185 | * TokenMinorityCouple: Two characters who are both minorities start dating. |
| 186 | * TokenTrio |
| 187 | * TokenWhite: The only person of European descent among a cast full of non-white people. |
| 188 | * TontoTalk |
| 189 | * TribeOfPriests |
| 190 | * TwoferTokenMinority |
| 191 | * UglySlavicWomen: Eastern European women are portrayed as ugly. |
| 192 | * UncleTomfoolery |
| 193 | * WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Stereotypes of black men lusting after white women and vice versa. |
| 194 | * WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant |
| 195 | * WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: An OddCouple consisting of a straight-laced white guy and a streetwise black guy. |
| 196 | * WhiteDudeBlackDude |
| 197 | * WhiteGangbangers: Because not all GangBangers are black or brown criminals. |
| 198 | * WhiteGuilt |
| 199 | * WhiteMaleLead |
| 200 | * WhiteMansBurden |
| 201 | * TheWhitestBlackGuy |
| 202 | * WhoopiEpiphanySpeech |
| 203 | * WildSamoan |
| 204 | * {{Yellowface}}: A racist performance involving people who are not East Asian wearing makeup to look like they are. |
| 205 | * YellowPeril: Xenophobic fears over East Asian people somehow "replacing" or subjugating (white) Western people. |
| 206 | * YouAreACreditToYourRace: A bigot gives a backhanded compliment to a minority by saying that they are better than the rest of their kind. |
| 207 | * YouKnowImBlackRight |
| 208 | [[/index]] |
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