History Main / AcceptableEthnicTargets

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* During the USA-USSR "cold war" it was hard to find a promotion that didn't have an evil Russian or three preaching about the perfection of Soviet Communism. Most of these were inspired by the top "Russians" of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance Wrestling/IvanKoloff, Wrestling/NikitaKoloff and [[Wrestling/BarryDarsow Krusher Khrushchev]], who were World TagTeam Champions by way of the [[PowerTrio Free Bird Rule]] and famous for their feud with Wrestling/LegionOfDoom. They made a HeelFaceTurn after Nikita Koloff's rival Wrestling/MagnumTA was [[AntagonistInMourning injured in a traffic accident]] but that just opened the door for bigger, eviler communists to feud with them.
* Subverted by "Legit" Leyla Hirsch, [[WrestlingDoesntPay a wrestling good will ambassador of Russian culture]], but her [[{{Foil}} arch rival]] Masha Slammovich more than makes up for it, by pretending whichever country she's passing through doesn't exist, for example speaking English with a northern California accent but [[BadLiar insisting]] she had no love for USA until getting stuck in the country during the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic.

** The skit in the middle of "Criminal" parodies racist white social mores by Dre send Slim into a bank they're robbing (implicitly because his white skin will draw less attention). Slim's a deranged killer, so he caps the cashier in the head, but he's white so he makes sure to cheerfully say "thank you!" in the style of a checkout Karen.
** In "Just Don't Give A Fuck", he ends a list of disses to other white rappers with a joke about white people not using spices in their food:

* The public defender in ''Film/MyCousinVinny'' stutters through his opening statement, and is promptly dropped as legal counsel in favor of the title character. (Though it should be clarified that the public defender was dropped mostly because he was a sucky lawyer, while Vinny, despite his inexperience, was able to discredit the first witness with simple logic.

* The public defender in ''Film/MyCousinVinny'' stutters through his opening statement, and is promptly dropped as legal counsel in favor of the title character.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' where Hayley takes up a career as a pole dancer and stripper satirizes American attitudes towards female bodily hair. When she takes a twirl on the pole and her wig falls off -- she has lost all her natural hair earlier in the episode -- the general atttiude from watching men is one of disgust and repulsion. One man sums it up --

** The same show, and its stablemate ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' also lampshade the ValuesDissonance between American and Europe on the desirability or otherwise of female bodily hair. [[HairyGirl European women]] who don't care or don't bother about shaving armpits, et c, are pilloried as somehow being unclean and certainly less desirable.[[note]]Europeans can find the perceived American mania for women to shave and depilate virtually everything to bejust as weird and un-natural[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Bordertown'' has a bunch of honest and hardworking Hispanic immigrants vs. the chubby white guy who mistrusts immigrants. The rest of the town, whether they support immigration or not, tend to rush to appeal to a broader market to cash in on the growing immigrant population.

* [[Wrestling/TheaTrinidad Divina Fly]] has feuded with Taylor Made and her manager, April Hunter. She stomped on Made's {{groin|attack}} and said she was [[ToThePain putting out]] a fire crotch(Made was a fake red, Hunter a natural).

* The "filthy Filipina" Shotzi Blackheart tries to prove her Asianess by diving headfirst into Far East culture, but as such gets accused of being a DragonLady, Japanophile or WesternAnimation/{{Samurai Pizza Cat|s}}.

* The "filthy Filipina" Shotzi Blackheart tries to prove her Asianess by diving headfirst into Far East culture, but as such gets accused of being a DragonLady, Japanophile or WesternAnimation/{{Samura Pizza Cat|s}}.

* Wrestling/NikkiStorm from Pippa L'vinn's Wrestling Factory fits the inflated ego stereotype, as she antagonizes ''everyone'' of every other ethnicity about Scotland's superiority. Downplayed in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} and its spinoffs, where she also antagonizes fellow Scots like Kay Lee Ray and Viper for [[NoTrueScottsman not being Scottish enough]]. L'Vinn herself has a bit of a Scottish accent, and is perhaps a dirtier heel than Storm, though preferrs to be reffered to as ''British''.

* Before becoming [[SmurfettePrincipal Moondog Fifi]], the blonde German Diane Von Hoffman worked a Nazi gimmick when turning pro. Even while not working as a Moondog she eventually "mellowed" into into simply hating "small" or "rookie" wrestlers, but not before taking the Nazi gimmick back into Germany!

* Initially this was the case with "The World's Ugliest Man" French Angel. He became [[EnsembleDarkhorse such an attraction]] however that "[[FoutainOfExpies Angel]]" gimmicks [[FollowTheLeader started to be used for men of all sorts of different ethnicities]] and his appearance became more accurately attributed to acromegaly than Frenchness.

* Subverted by "Legit" Leyla Hirsch, [[WrestlingDoesntPay a wrestling good will ambassador of Russian culture]], but her [[{{Foil}} arch rival]] Masha Slammovich more than makes up for it, by pretending whichever country she's passing through doesn't exist, for example speaking English with a northern California accent but [[BadLiar insisting]] she had no love for USA until getting stuck in the country during the UsefulNotesCovid19Pandemic.

* Vince [=McMahon=] Sr. was famous for insisting on having a representing for every ethnic group in New York City. Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Jr. was famous for offending every ethnic group in New York City ''except'' the Irish. However, they finally got their "turn" with the introduction of Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}}, who had the truly unique [[TheGimmick gimmick]] of being [=McMahon=]'s bastard leprechan son granted the ability to speak English through Santa Clause. This was later {{retcon}}ned however into Hornswoggle being Fin Finlay's bastard son, bringing his "Irish ''American''" roots into question.

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] in ''VideoGame/WatchDogs''. The main antagonists of the game are the [[TheIrishMob predominantly Irish Chicago South Club]] led by [[EvilOldFolks Dermot "Lucky" Quinn]], who not control the Windy City but are responsible for the large human trafficking auction since 2003. On the other hand, the main protagonist Aiden Pearce is an Ulster/Northern Irish immigrant living in America.

* Downplayed with La Familia stable in westside Xtreme wrestling. While they were an out of the blue and fairly stereotypical "Latino" group, it turned out that under the {{mask|edLuchador}}s none of them acutally were Latino.
* The Mexicools were not this as individuals. Super Crazy, Wrestling/{{Pscicosis}} and Juventud Guerrera are all fan favorites with long successful careers. But their repacaking for the group involved turing them into [[WrestlingDoesntPay wrestling landscapers]] who ride to the ring on lawn mowers while promising a revolution that will never come.
* LAX in Wrestling/{{TNA}} were supposed to be an evil group of Latinos. [[Wrestling/NelsonErazo Homicide]] went so far as to kidnapp a "snowflake"(lilly white interviewer Lauren) for not "liking Latinos" enough. Thing is, fans thought a group representing Latin Americas across the nations was ''cool'', so they became [[DesignatedHero faces by default]]. TNA would try again with "Mexican America", an group of Mexican supremecists who wanted to launch {{a Nazi|byanyothername}} style takeover of the United States Of America(or at least Florida) while spouting rhetoric about the boarder crossing them first and superiority of their race.

* WWE ran an angle where Wrestling/{{Tatanka}} became a vengeful ghost warrior against the [[MisplacedRetribution completely]] blameless Wrestling/BobbyLashley and against WWE officials(who were merely [[HanlonsRazor incompetent rather than outright malicious]]) for their discrimination against him. The problem was fans thought this was "badass" and [[DracoInLeatherPants cheered him]]. It doesn't help that Tatanka is a Lumbee, which are one of the USA's most discriminated tribes by virtue of the government refusing to acknowledge their existence[[note]]they tend to get lumped in with "Blacks" due to having sort of dark skin and a tendcy for curly hair. Apparently there is no way a group of people with such features could get to the Americas before European colonists.[[/note]].

* In Wrestling/{{ECW}} the joke about the FBI(Full Blooded Italians) was that for all of their posturing, most of them actually were not and some of them probably were not even Italian at all. This simple joke was far too complex for WWE however, who basically turned them into Italian GangBangers with mafioso delusions.

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* Priscilla Kelly, one of the stars of the afformentioned ''My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding'' entered the professional wrestling business with her baggage from the show but was otherwise portrayed as an inquisitive, sexually curious and ambitious woman who fell in with some [[PowerStable bad crowds]]. However, in EVOLVE she basically became a [[HornyDevils succubus]] out to [[TheCorrupter control]] and [[GayBravado mo]]le[[AllWomenAreLustful st]] anything that moves, which once again had people questioning if that was really the impression people should be getting. Her functional HeelFaceTurn in SHINE(she was always "[[DesignatedHero supposed]]" to be a face in that promotion) sought to address that she wasn't trying to make Romani or any other race look bad.

* During the USA-USSR "cold war" it was hard to find a promotion that didn't have an evil Russian or three preaching about the perfection of Soviet Communism. Most of these were inspired by the top "Russians" of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance Wrestling/IvanKoloff, Wrestling/NikitaKoloff and [[Wrestling/BarryDarsow Krusher Khrushchev]], who were World TagTeam Champions by way of the [[PowerTrio Free Bird Rule]]. They made a HeelFaceTurn after Nikita Koloff's rival Wrestling/MagnumTA was [[AntagonistInMourning injured in a traffic accident]] but that just opened the door for bigger, evilier communists to feud with them.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' gives us Heavy weapons guy; a huge, loud berserker who's been described as 'a big shaved bear that hates people.' He's… a little unhinged, with the habit of [[CompanionCube talking to inanimate objects]] and [[ICallItVera naming]] his monstrous weapons. To be fair, all the characters in [=TF2=] are outwardly dysfunctional and fill stereotype of some sort or another, revolving around RuleOfFunny. Interestingly, Heavy is made to sound a lot more intelligent in the Russian dubs, and he is said to have a [=PhD=] in Russian literature, which implies he may not be stupid at all, [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue he just doesn't speak very good English]], which is also implied by his bio.

* Initially this was the case with "The World's Ugliest Man" French Angel. He became such an attraction however that "Angel" gimmicks started to be used for men of all sorts of different ethnicities and his appearance became more accurately attributed to acromegaly than Frenchness.
* Colonel Ninotchka's HeelFaceTurn in Wrestling/{{GLOW}} involved defecting from the Soviet Union and settling in France. The audience treated this as a face turn anyway but everyone else on the show all but called her a smelly frog.

* Wrestling/NikkiStorm from Pippa L'vinn's Wrestling Factory fits the inflated ego steroetype, as she antagonizes ''everyone'' of every other ethnicity about Scotland's superiority. Averted in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} and its spinoffs, where she also antaognizes fellow Scotts like Kay Lee Ray and Viper.

Note that this type of [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecative]] humor can apply to more than just ethnicity, as people usually have a "free pass" to poke fun at their own profession/religion/politics/place of residence, and those in the same group who are no StopHavingFunGuys will often laugh alongside them.

* Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} subverted this, as the Australian Pink Ladies began as goofy {{jobber}}s but gradually TookALevel in Badass, and were generally well rounded enough to offset the overthetop Kellie Skater. Pretty much every Australian has also been a champion of some kind in SHIMMER or at least a frequent contender. In the {{spinoff}}s SHINE and RISE, however, all the Australian wrestlers are Goofy {{paper tiger}}s, to the point Evie muttered "Thank God!" when Maddison Eagles made it clear Evie was in fact from New Zealand.

In the Americas, most countries mock the European potencies who colonized them, and the colonists ensure there the joke goes both two ways. Stereotyping is a cheap source of laughs, particularly emphasizing the other's CulturalPosturing. Examples include UK and US (less so with Canada), Portugal and Brazil, and Spain with basically all the other Latin Americans.

* Manager turned valet Jade Chung is one of professional wrestling's most infamous {{butt monkey}}s. She tried her hand at being a wrestler but mainly became a measuring stick for how much anyone else who wanted to be one [[{{jobber}} was progressing]], with Candice LeRae in particular using Chung as a stepping stone to a serious career. However things started turning around for her, in a way, during her stint in Wrestling/RingOfHonor's incarnation of The Embassy, where her demotion from manager to valet and valet to footstool of Jimmy Rave gave her a HeelFaceTurn as Wrestling/PrinceNana's abuse was so over the top people couldn't help but [[TheWoobie sympethesize with her]].

This one probably has its roots in racism. Afro-textured hair has the most stigma attached to and it's often referred to as [[UnfortunateImplications "nappy"]] hair. Characters with QuirkyCurls are usually played up as comic relief and rarely are considered attractive. Averted with EightiesHair, RegalRinglets, and OjouRinglets.

Even though the Jamaican stereotype of a dread-locked pot-smoking Rastafarian on the beach, mon, is usually PlayedForLaughs, it does get extremely annoying. It is quite common for someone from Jamaica to go abroad and be asked if they live on the beach, have air-conditioning, or if they use knives and forks. Really. Also these stereotypes even spread to other Caribbean countries, due to Americans ([[NotSoDifferent and many others]]) not knowing much about countries other than Jamaica and maybe the Bahamas.

Except, ironically, just after the 9/11 attack (then again it was sadly a case of swapping one stereotype [obnoxious and/or oil tycoons] for another [zealous terrorists]). Nowadays, the Arabian peninsula (and a lot of the land around it which is lumped in with it because it is A: Muslim (never mind what branch), and B: looks a bit sandy) seems to be a rich source of terrorists and people burning American flags. Ironically, before the 9/11 attacks, Arabs were still acceptable targets in a lot of Western media, being stereotyped as obnoxious ''nouveau riche'' oil sheikhs with appalling design taste - for instance, this quote from [[Series/TopGearUK Jeremy Clarkson's]] ''Motorworld'': "The Arab is a bit flash - he'll buy a Sierra Cosworth and replace the headlamps with chandeliers. He has absolutely no taste whatsoever." Even before that, they were stereotyped as thieves, plunderers, and rogues, and the phrase "You cheating Arab!" (now confined to period pieces and racist grandparents) was a British idiom for someone having an unreasonable run of good luck at a game of chance. The association of Muslims with terrorists started in the 1970s, and other bad news coming out of the Middle East (Khomeini, UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, the fatwa against Creator/SalmanRushdie,...) only made these ideas more widespread. Combine this with the rise of Muslim immigrants in Western countries around the same time and its becomes more clear why both the jokes themselves and the caution to make them have risen.

* ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' has a brief reference to the "Persian mafia" - a poke at Los Angeles Persians, which would be a subset of Iranian/Persian Acceptable Targets. (The stereotype of Los Angeles Persians is often an Acceptable Target for Iranians as well, so a lot of Iranians thought the ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' reference was hilarious.)

* While "colored" wrestlers were always highly promoted special attractions on professional wrestling cards, they were rarely more than that, and aside from being filmed eating watermelons for shits and giggles were never portrayed too prominently, or offensively for that matter, for fear of sparking riots. In the event a black wrestler did become too popular to suppress, such as Wrestling/BoboBrazil, they were still pigeon holed into whitebread baby face roles. Ernie Ladd was an acception, as his fame as a professional football player allowed him to get away with being a {{heel}} even against white wrestlers.

* Russell Peters gets away with all sorts of race jokes because he - despite his name - is East Indian.

** It's worth noting that most of the "shots" eventually end with a punchline about Middle Easterners (Ahmed Ahmed's "Jews yell into the phone" is part of a long riff on how Jews and Arabs are the same, Maz Jobrani's AsianDrivers reference ends with a punchline that's ultimately on Middle Easterners), so there's a lot of overlap with NWordPrivileges. Interestingly, Jobrani has claimed that he receives complaints after shows when he ''doesn't'' tease other ethnic groups - by people from those ethnic groups who feel ignored!

New Zealanders and Australians treat each other as {{acceptable targets}}, as mentioned on that page. Both have more in common with each other than either are prepared to admit - even if Australia is thought of as a wannabe USA but without the dignity and refinement, and New Zealand's national sport is thought to be emigration to Australia. In each other's popular media, Australians are slightly dim, and New Zealanders aren't to be found beyond bludging off the taxpayer while sunning themselves on the Gold Coast.

Such women are pretty much the DistaffCounterpart to the above. While fat men are not exempt from being bashed, in the media - and sometimes in RealLife - it's fat women who get the brunt of said bashing, often called 'whales' or 'hippo-ladies' and considered the epitome of ugliness, which is an inexcusable and unacceptable flaw for a woman, InAWorld where MenActWomenAre. Not to mention that positive portrayals in the media are almost non-existent.

* The basic point of the ''Funny Or Die'' ''Series/TrueDetective'' parody "Tiny Detectives," with Creator/KateMara (5'2") and Creator/ElliotPage (5'1") as cops whose work is constantly hampered by their lack of height - being too short to see blood splatters on walls, Page's feet being unable to reach the car pedals, Mara being asked if she sleeps in a shoebox, the two going undercover as a man with Page on Mara's shoulders until the latter's head pokes out ("That's my face-penis..."), etc.

** House actually treated both of them as he would anyone else--he's abrasive and demeaning with everyone he encounters, so while he made a few dwarfism remarks, they were similar to things he's said about any other group besides "people who are Greg House". Usually hyper-sensitive Dr. Cameron came off as something of an InnocentBigot though.

* Aversion: In ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', one of Kramer's closest friends aside from the other three main characters is a dwarf named Mickey. In one episode, his height becomes important: The child actor he doubles has grown, so he uses insoles - which the other dwarfs don't like.

* ''Series/PushingDaisies'''s fifth episode, "[[Recap/PushingDaisiesS1E5Girth Girth]]", may as well be renamed "CHENO IS SHORT", given that it consists almost entirely of reminders that Kristin Chenoweth is 4'11" - ranging from a {{backstory}} involving a stereotypical short person's profession of horse jockey to a scene where she can't use a spade as a lever because she can't get traction on the ground. And deliberately shooting her from high angles to make her look even shorter.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' halfway-subverts this - {{Goth}} 'lab rat' Abby dates an intelligent, charming fellow science geek with a love for bowling, who just happens to be a dwarf. The one time the script calls for a joke about it, it's at the expense of Abby - who says something rather thoughtlessly in her typical way that comes across as a jab about his height, and apologizes. However, the relationship doesn't last - the actor playing her love interest committed suicide, and it's implied she was dumped due to her differing height.

** The jokes were made by Dan Fielding, who taunted Daniels mercilessly about his height-- but got his punishment when Daniels turned out to be his ''supervisor.''

* Possibly averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles,'' in which there are two characters short enough to potentially be the butt of dwarf jokes, but both characterizations are based on something else entirely--Mr. Huph is defined by his callous indifference to human suffering, and the humor of Edna Mode's character stems from her artistic temperament. It is only a possible aversion because the cartoony style of the film makes it uncertain whether their shortness is supposed to be indicative of dwarfism, or just a quirk of character design. Most likely it's to contrast them with Mr. Incredible. Mr. Huph because it's thus more humorous that this tiny little guy is ranting and ordering around a massive, superpowered dude because of his authority, and Edna because she smacks the same guy around and bends him to her will with far more style and good humor. And many of the characters are physical exaggerations, including Mr. Incredible, to augment the movie's "morning cartoon" style.

* More subversion: ''Series/CSIMiami'' has Calleigh Duquesne who is not only blonde, but fairly short, with a rather "little-girl" sort of voice - absolutely none of which affects her ability as an investigator.

* Played with in ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin''; the movie also revealed the REAL reason for waxing your anything. It's not to look good for anyone- it's to entertain your friends, who are standing there watching.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' where Hayley takes up a career as a pole dancer and stripper satirizes American attitudes towards female bodily hair. When she takes a twirl on the pole and her wig falls off - she has lost all her natural hair earlier in the episode - the general atttiude from watching men is one of disgust and repulsion. One man sums it up -

* Also averted with Ted Hoffman in ''Series/MurderOne'' - who comes off as the greatest and coolest defense lawyer ever, as well as being incorruptible and a loyal husband and father.

Generally portrayed as either AlwaysMale sex objects, slow talking[[MagicalNativeAmerican wise mystics in tune with the earth]] who can only speak in broken language, or [[CorruptCorporateExecutive greedy]] [[NativeAmericanCasino casino owners]]. They also like to assert themselves as the true Americans and call other Americans intruders.

* The 2006 documentary ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_Bad_Arabs Reel Bad Arabs]]'' is an in-depth look at the stereotyping of Arabs and other Middle Eastern peoples, such as Iranians (see below), in mainstream media, particularly films, and all the UnfortunateImplications coming from it. [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped It makes the point that such stereotyping is, in fact, extremely harmful]].

* Subverted in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (see Literature above). In-universe, virtually no one respects or likes Tyrion Lannister, but the show itself does not make him a joke; on the contrary, he is arguably the most intelligent and competent character on the show. [[Creator/PeterDinklage Three guesses who plays him, in what is probably his biggest role ever]].

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* Another subversive example is Karrin Murphy from the ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' books, tiny, blonde, cute, generally far more intelligent than Harry and can kill you six different ways before you hit the ground.
* Major subversion in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': House Lannister, aka The Blonde House, is arguably the most cerebrally dangerous House in Westeros. Biggest example of the subversion is [[TheDreaded Tywin Lannister]], who managed to administer Westeros to amazing levels of prosperity and order for two decades despite being handicapped with [[TheCaligula The Caligula]] as a superior. Also notable is Tyrion (see "Dwarves" on this very page), and Kevan. The family member who most fits the physical stereotype, Cersei, is even more of a subversion: She has [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen serious, serious personality flaws that throw major blinders over her judgement]], but she's also clearly intelligent and is an excellent political intriguer[[spoiler: Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark find this out the hard way]]. Even the family member who arguably fits the stereotype the most, Jaime, is far from stupid.

During the 1980s era when international revulsion against [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid]] was at its height, there was a brief tendency in British and American works to have white South Africans, especially Afrikaners, turning up as villains, even in stories with nothing particularly to do with South Africa. If they weren't the BigBad, they were usually [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]], and visually portrayed in a manner bordering on that of albinism (which isn't even accurate, since many Boers have fairly swarthy complexions from having lived for centuries in a semitropical climate). Even if the story wasn't about apartheid, they had a strong tendency to [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain be particularly nasty to any non-white character]] who crossed their path.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' nonstop, it takes every single Irish stereotype and turn it UpToEleven. Creator/SethMacFarlane is Irish American himself, so this is a humorous SelfDeprecation.

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* In fairness, there are a lot of other Slavs and Eastern Europeans (Hungarians/Magyar and the Estonians aren't Slavs but get mistakenly lumped in with them) who don't have very positive views of Russians, either.
** But on the other hand, there are quite a lot of Russians who don't have very positive views of the other Slavs, especially the Baltic ones. There's that "Estonians are slooo-ooo-oo…oow" joke, and all that business with the demolition of Red Army monument (UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is a very [[UnacceptableTargets touchy]] subject in Russia). And the words "хохол" and "москаль" respectively are what Russian and Ukrainian [[LowestCommonDenominator lowlifes]] use to refer to each other.
* The Canadian Prairies had a huge influx of Ukrainian immigrants during the 1890s onward and received discrimination early on, but since then are merely the butt of jokes. It's now to the point where nearly everyone in rural Alberta and Saskatchewan has some Ukrainian descent and whenever someone does something stupid people will say "That's the Ukrainian in them.".
* All the countless "Dumb Pollock" jokes. Even more so in that "Pollock" is an ethnic slur for Polish people, and Polish-Americans, but rarely are people called on it the same way as if they had made "Nigger" jokes.

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* There are several different Arab stereotypes: most obviously, the terrorist stereotype, but there's also the barbaric savage stereotype, and the oppressed woman stereotype.

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* Even more ironically lumped in with Arabs, because they really look down on Arabs. Many Iranians strongly identify themselves as Caucasian (the whole "Aryan=Iranian" thing); and some Iranians stereotype Arabs as "lazy, violent hicks" in much the same way that New York Italians view Southerners (or British Protestant attitudes toward Irish Catholics). The stereotype of "civilized Persians" versus "desert-dwelling Arabs" is in fact a ForgottenTrope. To complicate this further, Arabs make up one of Iran's minorities.
* In Finland, the stereotype is that they own a pizza or kebab place with broken Finnish in their speech and menus. To be honest, many pizzerias and such are run by immigrants.

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* The Harlem Globetrotters, famous trick basketball players, have an opponent team called a variety of names (most famously the "Washington Generals") who are "Jobbers", a bunch of players who are required to go out and be the goofy white dudes who are flummoxed and utterly shown up by the Jesters of Basketball, generally simply standing around looking stupid while the Globetrotters perform. But both the aforementioned teams were '''owned by white men.''' In the early days the focus was less on basketball and more on comedy set-pieces and clowning acts, but since the late 70's, the exhibition games have become competitive with the addition of collegiate all-stars to the Generals roster.

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* Creator/TomCruise.
* Jamie Cullum (not helped by his relationship with Sophie Dahl being a case of TinyGuyHugeGirl).
* Nicolas Sarkozy is towered over by his wife Carla Bruni, and his attempts to draw attention away from this only open him up to more jokes.
* Ryan Seacrest.
* Unless they're actual dwarfs (like ''Series/BostonLegal'''s Meredith Eaton), women--being generally shorter than men anyway--are usually safe from this. But as Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Creator/KristenBell, Music/KylieMinogue and Creator/KristinChenoweth can attest, even some women can become the subject of comments/jokes about their height, or lack thereof.

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* RealLife Example: Creator/StephenMerchant, known for collaborating with Creator/RickyGervais on ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' and ''Series/{{Extras}}'' finds it quite unfair that being tall is apparently considered some kind of achievement and that jokes at the expense of the very tall like himself are perfectly okay while jokes about dwarfs and fat people are frowned upon nowadays. He has gone over the drawbacks to being so tall many times in the past.
** Which may be partially responsible for one of the most cringingly hilarious moments in the Merchant-written ''Series/{{Extras}}'', when Merchant's character Darren Lamb meets noted little person actor Creator/WarwickDavis and squeals, "Oh, look! A midget!" He later asks Davis, "Can I fit in your house?"
* Actor Creator/JaredPadalecki of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' gets this all the time, and not just from fans--the cast, crew, and writing team love to poke fun at his height, not the least because shots often need to be arranged around him or make use of ForcedPerspective so he doesn't stick out like a sore thumb, or make everyone else look puny. Among other things, director/producer Kim Manners has nicknamed him "Sasquatch," and his ''Supernatural'' co-star Creator/JensenAckles once claimed in an interview that Padalecki makes him look like he's 5'9". He's clearly 6'5", but he claims he's either 6'3" or 6'4" (Google thinks the latter, and he claimed "6'4" and change" in a 2019 interview), probably out of a combination of insecurity and the fact that actors taller than 6'4" or so have trouble landing roles that don't specifically call for a tall person, and he also has a tendency to hunch when he walks.
** It has affected him negatively in the past as well. He mentioned once it cost him an acting job. He was auditioning for a pilot where he would play the son of the petite Creator/JaneSeymourActress. Things went well until they had to hug. When he had to almost fold in half to be able to actually hug her, it just went downhill.
* And any tall person will have heard "How's the weather up there?" a billion times. "Fair to partly stupid."
** Or if you're feeling ''really'' bitter - spit on their head/face and say "Rainy."

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* Fedor Jeftichew, better known as "Jojo the Dogfaced Boy," based his entire career on his hypertrichosis.
** In ''Transylvania 6-5000'' the wolfman is actually a man suffering from generalized hypertrichosis. Hypertrichosis has been informally called the "werewolf syndrome."
* Subverted by Creator/PierceBrosnan in… well everything.
** Averted by Creator/SeanConnery. Just look [[http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_01/bondsDM2704_468x491.jpg here]]. Can't be way [[http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/specials/sexiest_man/covers/12_18_89_300x400.jpg too bad]].
* Ryan Giggs has expressed regret about his shirt-stripping goal celebration in 1999 due to the subsequent mocking he received over the reveal of his chest rug.
* Creator/RobinWilliams was notoriously hairy and he knew this, and poked fun at it at every opportunity in his stand up.
* Jon Stewart, especially earlier in his career (and on ''Series/TheDailyShow'', before GrowingTheBeard), relied on SelfDeprecation when losing comedic momentum. He often brought up his height (about 5'6") and body hair, with the essential point of, "I'm a monkey." This was also a go-to defense when interviewees brought up his fame/sex appeal, walking the line between [[HumbleHero "Aww, shucks"]] and [[HollywoodHomely "You're wrong."]]
* Jeffrey Hunter was no more than moderately hairy, but when he starred in the 1961 movie ''King of Kings'', the crucifixion scene had to be re-filmed because test audiences were repelled by the idea of a Jesus with any body hair at all.
* Music/{{Rammstein}} frontman Till Lindemann is known for possessing a pretty hairy chest. Many female fans that weren't into body hair have admitted that they make an exception for him and even consider it an ''enhancement'' on his MrFanservice status.

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* Another notable exception is Creator/JasonStatham.
* Averted by Creator/YulBrynner.
* Ditto for the Wrestling/DwayneJohnson a.k.a. The Rock. His hairline had been receding for years, but rather than trying to fight it or hide it, he instead shaves his head and looks far more badass for it.
* Same goes for [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Steve Austin]]. After he noticed that his hairline was receding, he went to a hair loss clinic to try and fight it. He decided that the effort wasn't worth it, so he buzzed it short and later shaved it all off. The bald-headed tough-as-nails SOB "Stone Cold" is agreed to be far cooler than the long-haired, blond, pretty boy wanna-be "Stunning" Steve Austin.

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* Among the younger generations, many girls straighten their hair day after day after day, and are probably going to damage their hair until that particular section of their hair grows out.
** It's because many curly-haired women are rarely taught how to actually care for their own hair, with straight hair being so normalized (in the US, 65% of women have curly hair!). When these girls who straighten their hair grow up, they often get tired of straightening their hair and opt to just change their washing routines. Turns out that the cultural norm of shampooing one's hair every single day is pretty bad for curly hair, causing the knots mentioned below. Look into the "no-poo" community and you'll find a lot of people with curly hair.
** Given how fashion trends go in [[CyclicTrope cycles]], as of TheNewTens, natural textures are making a comeback, with more attention being paid to curly waves in both white and black women and more hair care products made specifically for the maintenance of curls coming out.
* Curly hair being straightened is often one of the things portrayed in an UnnecessaryMakeover. Straightening hair makes it about 500 times easier to manage. Curly, it's ''always'' knotted and frizzy, no matter what, straight it's a great deal less of both.
** Granted, but straightening in these makeovers is typically done to enhance the subject's "beauty," while the practical concerns of caring for curly or frizzy hair aren't mentioned.
* Some workplaces still require black women to straighten their hair, because natural hair is considered "off-brand."
* During the days of apartheid, there was actually a test to check whether a multiracial person was black or white by sticking a pencil in his hair. If it remained stuck, it was obviously curly hair and thus the person was black. If it just fell, the person was white. As you can imagine, this test was quite unreliable and some family members were separated from the others just on the basis of the curliness of their hair.
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* Stutterers are considered UnacceptableTargets in RealLife. Making fun of a stutterer will result in [[EatingLunchAlone ostracism and betrayal]] by your now former friends.

** The same show, and its stablemate ''westernAnimation/FamilyGuy'' also lampshade the ValuesDissonance between American and Europe on the desirability or otherwise of female bodily hair. [[HairyGirl European women]] who don't care or don't bother about shaving armpits, et c, are pilloried as somehow being unclean and certainly less desirable.[[note]]Europeans can find the perceived American mania for women to shave and depilate virtually everything to bejust as weird and un-natural[[/note]]

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* The latest addition to the Channel Fox Five Sunday night animation lineup, "Bordertown", has a bunch of honest and hardworking Hispanic immigrants vs. the chubby white guy who mistrusts immigrants. The rest of the town, whether they support immigration or not, tend to rush to appeal to a broader market to cash in on the growing immigrant population.

* The whole reason for the character of Kendra Krinklesac's existence in ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow''.