History Main / CultureBlind

* Similarly to Gino, Louise from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' knows just as little about civilian life, as she comes from a noble family and lived either on their estate or attended a WizardingSchool which is also exclusively for nobles who show little to no interest in the non-noble parts of the staff. This actually does come back to haunt her when she blows all her traveling money in a casino and has to take up a job as a waitress in a not-entirely-clean café/bar - and fails miserably at it.

* Ash Ketchum from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' knows surprisingly little about Pokémon during the [[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries Kanto]] and [[SoftReboot Unova]] seasons, considering that the entire world is obsessed with them, and he's more obsessed with them than anybody else. Notably, Iris calls him out on this quite a bit during his stay in Unova.

* Ash Ketchum from ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' knows surprisingly little about Pokémon during the Kanto and [[SoftReboot Unova]] seasons, considering that the entire world is obsessed with them, and he's more obsessed with them than anybody else. Notably, Iris calls him out on this quite a bit during his stay in Unova.

* ''Literature/TheBoyInTheStripedPajamas'' is about a nine-year-old German boy growing up in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany who is so naive, he doesn't even know who Hitler is.

*** Brennan's cultural blindness could be explained by her AmbiguousDisorder... which was eventually revealed to be an ''actual'' disorder, with her having UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome.

** The novels were eventually {{justified|Trope}}. Apparently Brennan is so Culture Blind that she didn't realize people were reading her books for the sections of them that Angela wrote rather than her [[{{Irony}} rigorous]] [[TheCSIEffect scientific]] [[DanBrowned accuracy]].

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* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': While two park workers are discussing the tastefulness (or lack there-of) of basing a haunted house attraction on the real-life crimes of InUniverse [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]], the other states that [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity that's only making people talk about it more]], and says a hashtag about the attraction is blowing up on [[Website/{{Twitter}} Tweezer]].
* ''Film/GhostNote'': When [[TheProtagonist Mallory]]'s grandma asks her what she likes to do, Mallory comments she likes watching movies on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Her grandma states she likes the idea, and they go to do that. As they walk, Mallory's grandma asks...
-->'''Grandma:''' What's Netflix?
* ''Film/WerewolvesWithin'': Emerson Flint, the guy who lives out on the edge of Beaverfield, doesn't know who [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Mr. Rogers]] is.
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* ''Film/GhostNote'': When [[TheProtagonist Mallory]]'s grandma asks her what she likes to do, Mallory comments she likes watching movies on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Her grandma states she likes the idea, and they go to do that. As they walk, Mallory's grandma asks...

Of course, people like this do exist in RealLife, although probably not to the extreme degree that they do in fiction; some people, for whatever reason, just don't get out much, listen to the radio, or watch the news. In addition, [[UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} autistic]] [[UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome people]] may not understand socially acceptable forms of behaviour due to the very nature of their conditions.

** Worf, as well, should act as human as Riker. He's raised among humans, knows human values and ethics, but acts as if he's fresh off the boat from Quonos most of the time. While it doesn't excuse outright ignorance, a lot of his failing to fit in is implied to be overcompensation for just that. He is described as having spent much of his time growing up embracing his heritage and trying to be as Klingon as possible in Human society. That combined with his formative years being among Klingons, makes it pretty reasonable. Guinan [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this in one episode, telling him outright that most Klingons [[BoisterousBruiser do not]] act as [[TheStoic stiff and stoic]] as he does.

* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': While two park workers are discussing the tastefulness (or lack there-of) of basing a haunted house attraction on the real-life crimes of InUniverse [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]], the other states that [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity that's only making people talk about it more]], and saya a hashtag about the attraction is blowing up on [[Website/{{Twitter}} Tweezer]].

* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': While two park workers are discussing the tastefulness (or lack there-of) of basing a haunted house attraction on the real-life crimes of InUniverse [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]], the other states that [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity that's only making people talk about it more, and saya a hashtag about the attraction is blowing up on [[Website/{{Twitter}} Tweezer]].

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Of course, people like this do exist in RealLife, although probably not to the extreme degree that they do in fiction; some people, for whatever reason, just don't get out much, listen to the radio, or watch the news. In addition, [[[UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} autistic]] [[UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome people]] may not understand socially acceptable forms of behaviour due to the very nature of their conditions.

Of course, people like this do exist in RealLife, although probably not to the extreme degree that they do in fiction; some people, for whatever reason, just don't get out much, listen to the radio, or watch the news. In addition, people with UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} or UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome may not understand acceptable forms of behaviour due to the very nature of their conditions.

* Averted in ''ComicStrip/AlleyOop.'' The titular caveman has been time traveling between his prehistoric world and the present day for years, and by now he is completely fluent in modern culture. This gets lampshaded whenever one of his caveman friends ends up time traveling ''with'' him and sees the modern world for the first time.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', Jaune Arc is completely ignorant of things every warrior should know, like [[BattleAura Aura]]. [[spoiler:It turns out that he lied about his past and has had ''no'' warrior training at all before he arrived at Beacon Academy.]]

* A rather fatal example comes from the series ''Literature/TheTamuli'' by Creator/DavidEddings. The church of Elenia continuously sends missionaries to the Rendors in order to try to convert them to their beliefs. Mind you, the Rendors aren't bad people, but they take their religion ''very'' seriously, and while they usually don't go around slaughtering nonbelievers, they are very easily angered, especially when it comes to religion. And unfortunately, the missionaries that the Elenes send tend to be the screaming zealot type, and go around ripping the veils off of women, and screaming that they're all heretics and damned to burn in hell. The end result is a small riot, and a lynched missionary, for very obvious reasons.