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Janet Van Dyne: What about me?
Nick Fury: Heck, who else but miss Lucy Liu?
Janet Van Dyne: Oh, naturally. Even though she looks absolutely nothing like me, she'd be great because all Asian people are basically identical, right? Who'd be your back-up choice, general? Bruce Lee?

The Doctor: Don't I know you?
Li H'sen Chang: I think not.
The Doctor: Yes, I've seen you somewhere before.
Li H'sen Chang: I understand we all look the same.

Reagan: That's the kicker: my mom's getting married to herself.
Myc: (looking at the wedding invitation) Oh, that's two Tamikos on the invite. I just thought your mom was a lesbian and I was racist.
Inside Job, "My Big Flat Earth Wedding"

"Oh, like y'all can tell these moderately attractive white men with beards apart."

Amy: Oh, is that her over there, by the tree?
Jonah: No, that doesn't look anything like her, either. Do you just think all white women look the same?
Amy: No. I think all these white women look the same.

I can’t understand how you manage to tell all those foreigners apart. To me they all look alike!
Judge Dee on the Arabian population, "Murder in Canton"

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