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* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'', protagonist Elijah Baley notes that the Earth rhyme against the foreign "Spacers" (people who settled worlds besides Earth) always seems to include "Dirty Spacers", and that "dirty" seems to be a common insult against those you hate. Ironically, the Spacers consider Earth people as dirty, and are correct, as the Spacers have eliminated most communicable diseases and compared to them, Earth people are bags of disease and a danger to Spacers due to a mostly unused Spacer immune system. In addition, when Elijah Baley visits a Spacer world in the sequel, the bathroom is so clean it gleams (because it is cleaned by robots after every use and uses advanced materials) that he wonders how he will adjust when he has to go back to using communal bathrooms on Earth.
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* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'', protagonist Elijah Baley notes that the various Earth rhyme rhymes and insults against the foreign "Spacers" (people who settled worlds besides Earth) always seems seem to include "Dirty Spacers", and Spacer". This is a deliberate reversal of the Spacer idea that "dirty" seems to be a common insult against those you hate. Ironically, the Spacers consider Earth people as ''Earthmen'' are dirty, and are correct, as since the Spacers have eliminated most communicable diseases among themselves and compared to them, Earth therefore view the people are bags of disease Earth as diseased and a danger to Spacers due to a mostly unused Spacer immune system. In addition, when inherently unclean. When Elijah Baley visits a Spacer world in the sequel, the bathroom is so clean it gleams (because it is cleaned by robots after every use due to robot cleaning, and uses advanced materials) that he wonders how he will adjust when he has to go back to using communal bathrooms on Earth.
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See also ThePigPen, StinkSnub. Filthiness Tropes.
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This trope is strange in that it, in particular, unlike the FunnyForeigner, is a DiscreditedTrope at best, possibly verging on a DeadHorseTrope, and is most often used today in subversion, as a quick and easy way to tell that a character has a prejudice against another group, and that character is usually painted in a negative light. The French are a particularly common target for this trope, though it is by no means exclusive to them.
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This trope is strange in that it, in particular, unlike the FunnyForeigner, is a DiscreditedTrope at best, possibly verging on a DeadHorseTrope, and is most often used today in subversion, as a quick and easy way to tell that a character has a prejudice against another group, and that character is usually painted in a negative light. The French are a particularly common target for this trope, though it is by no means exclusive to them.
them. In science fiction, this may be extended to aliens. In fantasy and fairy tales with talking animals, animals may say this about a certain species.
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One of the easiest ways to look down upon another person is to make fun of their personal hygiene. This extends sometimes to entire nationalities. Thus, the Dirty Foreigner trope was born.
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One of the easiest ways to look down upon another person is to make fun of their lack of personal hygiene. This extends sometimes to entire nationalities. Thus, the Dirty Foreigner trope was born.
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* In ''Series/SpittingImage'', the ''I Never Met A Nice [[AmoralAfrikaner South African]]'' song refers to the old slur the British threw at the Boers - that the Dutch-descended half of the nation are either wholly innocent of what soap is, or else actively shun it, leading to an unpleasant physical smell.
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* In ''Series/SpittingImage'', the ''I Never Met A Nice [[AmoralAfrikaner South African]]'' song refers to the old slur the British threw at the Boers - that the Dutch-descended half of the nation are either wholly innocent of what soap is, or else actively shun it, leading to an unpleasant physical smell. [[note]]The song dates from the middle of TheEighties, when apartheid was still a going concern, lots of protesting black people had been shot dead at Soweto, and white minority rule in SA was giving ''every'' South African a bad reputation regardless of whether they were racist or not. [[FairForItsDay Things have changed since]].[[/note]]
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* In ''Series/SpittingImage'', the ''I Never Met A Nice [[AmoralAfrikaner South African]]'' song refers to the old slur the British threw at the Boers - that the Dutch-descended half of the nation are either wholly innocent of what soap is, or else actively shun it, leading to an unpleasant physical smell.
-->I've never met a nice South African, and that's not bloody surprising, man!
--> As we're a bunch of talentless murderers, who smell like baboons!
-->I've never met a nice South African, and that's not bloody surprising, man!
--> As we're a bunch of talentless murderers, who smell like baboons!
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* In ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', this is discussed and averted; Colon says that a sign of the good Morporkian way of life is "washing regular", and Nobby ([[InsultFriendlyFire who probably doesn't wash regular himself]]) mentions that he's never seen [[AsianStoreOwner Mr. Goriff]] and his family with dirty clothes.
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* In ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', this is discussed and averted; Colon says that a sign of the good Morporkian way of life is "washing regular", and Nobby ([[InsultFriendlyFire who probably doesn't wash regular himself]]) mentions that he's never seen [[AsianStoreOwner Mr. Goriff]] and his family with dirty clothes.
