Basic Trope: Member of demographic B exhibits loyalties, stereotypes, and characteristics of demographic A, aside from belonging to demographic B.
- Straight: Anthony Kettlesworth is an African-American man who is part of the upper class. He owns a summer and winter home, enjoys golfing with his brother Charles Kettlesworth and his business partner Alfred, and is always seen with a top hat.
- Exaggerated: Anthony is so "White" that he is knowingly prejudiced against fellow blacks. He is considered by straw racists a credit to his race, and is married to a white woman. Not that it's wrong, but given he's stiffed countless lower and upper class black women for their race alone, and the fact his white wife is a no-name French farm girl who can't even speak English is worth noting.
- Downplayed:
- Anthony Carter is a member of the middle class exhibiting stereotypically white traits
- Anthony Carter grew up in a more black community while still living upper class, therefore internalizing more "Black" traits along with white traits.
- Justified:
- Anthony's father worked extremely hard in a hostile environment to get from the lower class to the upper class. He internalized stereotypically-white norms to survive there, and raised his sons to do the same because he thought acting "White" was necessary to be successful.
- Anthony was adopted by a white family where he was raised since infancy.
- Inverted: Pretty Fly for a White Guy
- Subverted: Anthony is introduced as a stuck up rich guy, but once he’s alone with our two black lead characters he drops the British accent, reveals his name as Aaron Carter, explains he’s only acting to secure a white collar job to provide for his family, and starts behaving more “Stereotypical” around the lead characters.
- Double Subverted: ... It turns out Aaron is really an affluent Afro-American.
- Parodied: An entire episode is dedicated to the town of Blackwood, an organization of Afro-Americans, British, Japanese, French, Italian, and native Africans from Nigeria and South Africa who own 40% of the world's wealth, make economic and political decisions for the world, and are responsible for World War 3.
- Zig-Zagged: Anthony is a snobby, rich, black man who has both stereotypical and non-stereotypical traits.
- Averted: Anthony is a black man who acts like most peoples' conceptions of black people.
- Enforced:
- A show about snotty rich people is forced to fit a diversity quota.
- The creators are obligated to add more black people, but have no idea how to write them accurately. To compromise, they created a black character who doesn't act "black" so that they can write a character arc they're more familiar with.
- The creators were earlier criticized for stereotypical black characters, and now they're writing a very non-stereotypical black character to make up for it.
- The creator believes culture is not equatable to race.
- Alternatively, the creator wanted to portray the negativity behind assimilation into other cultures that would not usually accept you.
- Lampshaded: "Did God paint you the wrong color, boy?"
- Invoked: Anthony grew tired of his race's culture and wants to learn about other cultures.
- Exploited: Anthony not acting "black" enough endears him to his whiter peers, which is exactly what Anthony wanted—now by socializing with them he can get information he would have never been privy to as a "normal" black guy.
- Defied: Anthony's father drove him to his family down south every 2 months to be with his Sassy Black Woman grandmother, Uncle Tom Foolery uncle, the rest of his cousins and other black kids. All ranging from The Whitest Black Guy, intellectual, athletic, religious, looking like thugs, and actually being thugs.
- Discussed: "My son Anthony is an upperclassman. You can consider him an 'Honorary white'".
- Conversed: "What is he, British?"
- Implied: Anthony is not given too much characterization, but his dress sense seems unusual for the stereotypical black man.
- Deconstructed: Anthony has a strained relationship with his family. While he loves them and is willing to spend time with them (Even if they ruin his favorite carpet) they aren’t willing to accept him due to his differing behavior.
- Reconstructed: Eventually his younger sister starts spending more time with him, his brother wants to learn how to become well off like him, and his parents decided they ought take a vacation. The family finally comes to the realizatioin that Anthony might not act like the rest of them, but he's still their relative and deserves the same amount of respect. Eventually, they all get back together.
- Played for Laughs: Anthony visits his grandmother's house and refuses the curry chicken she made since it's too spicy for him.
- Played for Drama: Anthony's family relationships are strained to the point where he suffers from depression and later commits suicide.
- Intended Audience Reaction: The creator intentionally wrote Anthony to behave this way to draw criticism about Anthony "Not acting black" to expose the bias that both blacks and non-blacks have that black people are supposed to behave a certain way, and wants his audience to see blacks as individuals rather than part of a group.
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