History Main / GoingNative

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': After surviving the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Sarlacc pit]], Boba Fett is stripped from his armor by Jawas and [[MadeASlave enslaved]] by a Tusken raiders tribe. One day he saves the life of a Tusken child by killing a sand monster, and the tribe starts integrating him. He helps them getting rid of a heavily armed Pyke Syndicate train crossing their territory, and in turn they teach him their gaderffii staff-based martial art, dress him like them and have him build his own staff (he had to go through a [[JunkieProphet ritualistic]] MushroomSamba first).
* In one episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'', Michael jokingly accuses the security chief for the Pakistani consulate of going native after finding him in an Indian restaurant. May be a subversion, as the cultures of India and Pakistan are almost indistinguishable.
-->'''Waseem:''' Oh, I like the chicken tikka.

** In the first half of season 3, [[spoiler:the Plantars end up going to Earth with Anne, where they start adapting to the ways of humans. After returning to Amphibia and displaying human-like charcteristics, Sasha notes that being on Earth "made them soft".]]

** In the first half of season 3, [[spoiler:the Plantars end up going to Earth with Anne, where they start adapting to the ways of humans. After returning to Amphibia and displaying human-like charcteristisc, Sasha notes that being on Earth "made them soft".]]

* ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'', like the book, features an Arab who goes native amongst Vikings although he also keeps his traditions and ultimately returns home.

* What Renzi does in the latter parts of ''Artemis'' on a Pacific island the crew visits. Luckily, {{Literature/Kydd}} is there to (literally) knock him out of it before the [[Main/ImaHumanitarian cannibalistic]] rival tribe of the islanders hosting them can get there.

* In Literature/{{Dune}}, protagonist Paul Atreides and his mother Lady Jessica, after being rescued by the desert-dwelling Fremen, are assimilated into the culture. Paul takes to it very strongly, and is a feared leader and eventually becomes the Fremen's [[MessianicArchetype messiah]].
* ''Literature/EatersOfTheDead'' features an Arab going native amongst Vikings. It's a rare example of an Eastern character going native amongst Westerners.

* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''His Last Command'' from the series Literature/GauntsGhosts, [[spoiler: Gaunt's 'forced' Junior Commissar Ludd betrays his trust by reporting him in the eve of battle]] even though Gaunt fully expects him to do so.

* The trope codifier, ''Literature/AManCalledHorse'', is about a white man captured by Native Americans who eventually assimilates into their culture. It is taught in many grade school literature classes in the US.
* ''Literature/LightAndDarkTheAwakeningOfTheMageknight'': Human [[spoiler:Doug]] is so taken by elfin culture (and one member in particular) that he chooses to [[spoiler:spend the school year studying abroad in the elfin capital.]] In the sequel, he'll likely come back with a penchant for very bland tea.

* Quite a few of Creator/RudyardKipling 's India stories are an exploration of the concept.
* In Creator/GeorgeOrwell's early novel, ''Burmese Days'', Flory admires Burmese culture more than he does his own, and despises the British Empire. It looks like he might be going this route, but the trope is subverted when [[spoiler: he takes command of the police and breaks up a riot intent on destroying the Club and killing Ellis]].
** The literary critic V. S. Pritchett once described the period Orwell spent living as a tramp as "going native in his own country."
* ''Literature/GoodOmens'':
** Aziraphale and Crowley, an angel and a demon respectively, end up going native towards humanity as a result of having been on Earth since the very beginning. Neither are happy to learn about the imminent apocalypse and try their best to hamper its progress.
** [[TheAntiChrist Adam]] ends up becoming an AntiAntichrist as a result of this, refusing to start the apocalypse due to his time on Earth having left him neither evil nor divine, but fundamentally ''human''.
* Amusingly inverted in Creator/NeilGaiman's Franchise/SherlockHolmes pastiche, ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'', where the [[EldritchAbomination Great Old Ones]] returned to Earth centuries ago, but instead of wiping us out or forcing us to adapt their ways, they assumed leadership in human terms. This resulted in a pseudo-Victorian world where most people lead entirely normal lives despite the fact most crowned heads of Europe have an unpleasant number of tentacles under them, and even consider their existence a blessing that makes the civilization possible at all.
* Jacob Wheeler does this in ''Series/IntoTheWest'' after marrying a Lakota woman. They and their children shift between Native and white society as the series progresses. Jacob's cousin, Naomi, also goes native when she marries a Cheyenne chief, Prairie Fire.
* One of the characters in ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' [[spoiler:is actually an EldritchAbomination known as the Eater of Souls who was stuck in a human body and trained to pass as an Englishman. The ones doing the training ended up doing too good a job of it.]]
* Basil Fotherington-Thomas (from the ''Literature/{{Molesworth}}'' books) fills the Kurtz role in ''Literature/TeddyBearsPicnic'', a bizarre AlternateHistory retelling of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' by Creator/KimNewman. ''Literature/JustWilliam'' also fits as the soldier sent to kill Fotherington-Thomas who ends up joining him.
* In ''Literature/TheOverstory'', the [[TheCynic cynical]] Adam Appich surveys a group of environmental activists fighting deforestation in order to explore their psychology and understand why some people choose to [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman hold non-humans as so much more morally important than others do.]] He ends up [[TookALevelInIdealism Taking a Level In Idealism]] and joining forces with them instead.
* In ''Literature/PrincessHolyAura'' this is how Stephen Russ plans to handle the problem of finding the rest of the Apocalypse Maidens.
* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Literature/RedHarvest''. Protagonist detective, The Continental Op, comes to city of Personville (also known as [[WretchedHive Poisonville]]) and soon in process of trying to rid the city of organized crime he becomes involved with several gangsters, kills many people directly and indirectly, and shoots a cop. In books probably most famous quote, when talking about it, he compares his situation of slowly becoming corrupted by the town to this trope.
--> This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.
* One of the protagonists of Creator/DianeDuane's ''Literature/TheRomulanWay'' is Terise Haleakala-[=LoBrutto=], a Starfleet DeepCoverAgent tasked with improving the Federation's understanding of the secretive Romulans. By the end of the book she openly admits to Bones [=McCoy=] that she's come to love living on ch'Rihan, and refuses his offer to be extracted with him.
* Author [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassie_Edwards Cassie Edwards]] wrote over 100 bodice ripper romance novels, particularly the ''Savage'' series, all of which feature a white woman hooking up with a Native American man and adopting the ways of his tribe. And while she's the most prominent example, she's not the only author to employ this scenario.
* In ''Literature/{{Seraphina}}'' Dragons are discouraged from this, and punished with a memory-wipe if evidence comes to the Censors.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

* On the planet Avalon in Literature/TechnicHistory this Humans and Ythrians Going Native with each other is a minor local tempest in a teapot. As relations between Humans and Ythrians on the planet are good it is usually less the disapproval of the other species, but simply uneasiness at mixing and worrying that those Going Native won't have time for their own.

* The Ente Islans from ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' warm up quite quickly to living in the real world, to the point where the person who is supposed to be ''Satan''[[note]]He's not actually the biblical one, though he is at a similar level of power[[/note]] places "taking over the world" second to "getting a promotion at [[WcDonalds MgRonalds]]".
* The dragons in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' all adapt very well to life on Earth as time passes (Kanna attends school, Fafnir becomes an {{Otaku}}, Elma gets a job as a programmer, etc.). This gets discussed when Tohru helps Fafnir find an apartment and he mentions that she's becoming too much like a human.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comics ''The Broken Ear'' and ''Tintin and the Picaros'', the titular reporter comes across Ridgewell, an English explorer who ended up living with natives in the South American rain forest.

* The early ''Franchise/AliensVsPredator'' comics featured a woman who ended up becoming a Predator warrior. And sucked horribly at it, to the comics' credit.

* Swedish comic ''Johan Vilde'' (Johan Savage), is about a Swedish boy in 17th century west Africa, who is raised as the son of a prominent merchant from one of the larger tribes/nations in the region.
* Nolan, ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'s father, originally came to Earth to blend in and [[spoiler: slowly take over. He hated his assignment at first but found himself actually liking Earth]] and ended up with a wife and son.
* Many, ''many'' examples in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest''. Leetah becoming a Wolfrider to be with Cutter is the most prominent one. Any of the Sunfolk or Gliders that join the Wolfriders, the Jackwolfriders, or the Forevergreen group count; Suntop taking on a Wavedancer appearance to be with Brill; Shuna (a medieval human) being adopted by Wolfriders; Little Patch, Winnowill, and later Mender exploring human society (since the elves consider humans savages, and vice versa); Lehrigen becoming a woodland stalker to hunt elves; Rayek living as a Go-Back for a while; and last but not least, the Jackwolves living around Sorrow's End mating with the Wolfriders' wolves.
** Shuna decides to become part of the elf tribe. A few years later, puberty really kicks in and she goes looking for a husband in nearby indigenous human tribes - a whole new world compared to her previous medieval city life.
* Franchise/{{Superman}} was a baby at the time of his emigration to earth and hardly had a choice in the matter, but still applies, since even after he learns about and accepts his Kryptonian roots, he refuses to define himself as a Kryptonian instead of a human.
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', Thundercracker is explicitly referred to as having "gone native" on Earth. During the War, he was a NobleDemon Decepticon Seeker. Now he has a dog and writes fanfiction, and is much happier.
* In ''ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan'', Mr. Lee constantly insists that his family speak English and act obediently to the people in downtown Metropolis after moving there from Chinatown. His insistence on being "normal" and living up to positive stereotypes gets him to try to reason with TheKlan to stop them from burning his house down. His wife admonishes him for this and tells him in Cantonese, "To Hell with your English!"

* In ''FanFic/{{Sluagh}}'', Neville, working undercover as an enforcer for the Real IRA, starts to accept their tactics and goals.

* ''{{Film/Tron}}: Endgame Scenario'': ZigZagged a bit with [[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Jet Bradley]]. Being mistaken for a game fighter turned security monitor and assimilating to Program customs is a lot less headache than being up front about his [[ThankTheMaker User]] status, [[StopWorshippingMe especially given how Jet]] [[AGodIAmNot views the whole idea of being worshiped]]. Even with the Programs who do know what he is, he makes great effort to follow their customs, even when he disagrees with it personally because ''"your world, your rules."'' However, he sometimes inverts it with Tron and Yori; Programs do not have the same concept of family as humans do, but Jet can't come up with a better honorific than the User ones of "brother" and "sister."
* Following a dimension hop in ''Fanfic/TheDifferenceOneManCanMake'', Harry ends up in Westeros, more precisely North of the Wall. When Benjen Stark explains to him the Seven Kingdoms and the Land of Eternal Winter, he decides he likes more the freedom enjoyed by the wildlings and stays amongst them.

* The ''Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty'' adventure in Tau space features a former Inquisitor who has adapted a number of Tau customs and is heavily hinted to be the villain behind it all. [[spoiler:He remains loyal to the Imperium.]]
* ''FanFic/AnAnthemForShelteredBays'' has Eren assimilate into human society with the help of Levi and Hanji after he is forced to become human to save his life.
* LonelyRichKid Tommy Marshall (aka the Kangaskhan Kid from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}})'' ends up this way in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' when he becomes lost in the Safari Zone. At first, he tries to adapt as best as he can only to survive, but despite missing his parents, soon he finds himself enjoying his new lifestyle more than his old one.
* When the Dursley family moves to New Orleans in ''Fanfic/LeCommencementDuDiableBlanc'', young Harry enjoys his new life so much he learns French, gains a respect for Cajun culture, and ultimately cuts every tie to his past life when he's adopted and renamed "[[ComicBook/{{Gambit}} Remy]]" by the native Jean-Luc [=LeBeau=].
* Jon Snow in ''Fanfic/ADovahkiinSpreadsHisWings'' found himself lost in Skyrim at fourteen years old, and assimilated so well in the local cultures that he suffers CultureClash when he goes back to Westeros in order to visit his family. His father and older brother are shown to be rather upset over his growing apart from them.

* In ''Fanfic/TheMoonsFlashPrincess'' it is noted that [[Manga/SailorMoon Minako Aino]] lived for years in Europe, and France in particular, and is culturally more [[FunnyForeigner an eccentric Frenchwoman]] than Japanese.
* Hilariously alluded to in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5858012/7/Sibling-Revelry Sibling Revelry]]" when a group of technicians try to escape the ''Executor'' to flee from Vader's ire and are shot down by an Ensign. The shuttle crashed on Endor and the survivors are adopted by Ewoks.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' is about two Spaniards who wind up discovering El Dorado [[GodGuise and masquerade as gods]]. One is only in it for the gold, but the other grows attached to the people, and ultimately protects them from the Cortez expedition.
* The Zoosters grew accustomed to the circus life in ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted''.
* Milo, the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' does this at the end of the film and chooses not to return to the surface with his companions (he's got a pretty sweet gig as interpreter/royal consort for the new queen). They fake his death by telling the authorities that he drowned when the submarine exploded, and they NeverFoundTheBody.
* Sunset Shimmer in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' films and specials is a unicorn who ran away from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the source show]]'s setting to the human world, and spends years plotting revenge on her PhysicalGod mentor. Even after being defeated she's forced to stay behind, but later rejects an offer to return to her home dimension, as that would mean abandoning the friends she's made.
* Zac is transformed into a mini-sized man in a fairy community in ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest''.

* ''Film/DancesWithWolves'', in which a U.S. officer joins the Sioux and ultimately fights with them against the U.S. army.
** Stands With a Fist is a white woman who was taken by the Pawnee as a small child and later grew up with the Lakota Sioux.
* ''Film/AManCalledHorse'', in which a white man joins the Sioux. It's considerably more honest about less pleasant aspects of Sioux traditional life, such as the torture of captives and the Sun Dance[[note]]One of the supreme sacred acts of Native life, associated mostly with the Lakhota but not limited to Plains tradition, the Sun Dance is [[http://www.thespiraljournal.com/2012/06/you-mean-like-in-a-man-called-horse/ a ceremony of thanksgiving, self-offering, and commitment]] and portrayed fairly accurately here.[[/note]] than ''Dances With Wolves''. However, it was criticized for still having a white main character,[[note]]It's certainly not that Native tribes including the Lakhota didn't adopt Anglo men and women: they did, quite frequently, and there was plenty of intermarriage.[[/note]] with practices attributed to the Sioux actually alleged to be a mix of Mandan and Crow tradition (the Crow were ''enemies'' of the Sioux, ironically). American Indian activist Music/BuffySainteMarie called it "the whitest of movies [she had] ever seen."
* In ''Film/TheLastSamurai'', an American Civil and Indian War veteran is taken captive by samurai and goes native during the Meiji Restoration.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Stargate}}'', Daniel Jackson happily settles down, on another planet, with Sha'ri.
* The titular character from ''Film/WhoAmI1998'' is the SoleSurvivor of a mission in the African wilderness, where he's was rescued by an African Tribe and spends most of the film uncovering his past, looking for all sorts of clues from South Africa to Netherlands. By the time he defeated all the bad guys, though? The first thing he's going to do is returning to Africa.

* ''Film/{{Doomsday}}''. With the slightly unusual variant that, thanks to YouKillItYouBoughtIt, [[spoiler:the hero]] ends up going native as ''leader'' of an [[ImAHumanitarian army of Glaswegian cannibals]].
* Dr. Rae Crane does this at the end of ''Film/MedicineMan''.

* Harvey Keitel's character shows signs of this in ''Film/ThePiano''.

* T.E. Lawrence in ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''; originally sent as an envoy to negotiate an alliance with various Arab leaders, he begins to be more interested in their own revolution than how he can get them to fight for the British. See the RealLife entry.
* Lampooned in ''Film/TropicThunder'', where Tugg Speedman tries to stay behind with the heroin smugglers who he's grown attached to but quickly discovers that they're less than pleased about his role in helping the team escape.
%%* The movie ''WesternAnimation/BattleForTerra''.

* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' does this -- [[HalfHumanHybrid in a more futuristic way]]: the researchers interact with the Na'vi indirectly, via the remote-mind-controlled "Avatar" bodies. One of them literally goes native after transferring his brain into the Na'vi body. Another attempts to upload her brain entirely into her Avatar after being shot, but dies before it can happen.
** More traditionally played by Trudy, who lacks an avatar of her own, but sympathises with the Na'vi [[spoiler:after the ruthless destruction of the Na'vi home]] and provides a lot of valuable help in the FinalBattle by turning up in her gunship coated with Na'vi warpaint. [[spoiler:Sadly, she doesn't make it]].
* ''Film/{{Outlander}}'' ends with [[spoiler: Kainan choosing to destroy his rescue beacon in favor of remaining on Earth]].
* In ''Film/TheSearchers'', when the kidnapped girl is found she has completely assimilated into the society of her captors. Both searchers knew this could happen when they set out to find her: one wants to rescue her, the other [[TragicBigot wants to murder her because he can't stand miscegenation.]] This is based on the real story of Cynthia Parker, see below.
* ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'', like the book, features an Arab who goes native amongst Vikings although he also keeps his traditions and ultimately returns home.

* How the title character in ''Film/JohnCarter'' becomes "John Carter of Mars".

%%* ''YakuzaGraveyard''
* ''Film/TheEmeraldForest'': Subverted because Tommy was forced to go native and his dad Bill did not go native. But the movie did do a fair compare and contrast between the natives and the city dwellers showing both had advantages and difficulties. (This was VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory involving a Peruvian worker's search for his son who had been stolen and adopted by a forest tribe.)
* ''Film/LittleBigMan'' goes native early in the film but he doesn't get to stay that way. He spends the rest of his life bouncing back and forth torn between two cultures that are often at war with each other until his Native American identity is symbolically "killed" when his former childhood friend knocks him unconscious at the battle of the Little Big Horn, sparing his life but effectively expelling him from the tribe.
* In ''Film/TheChargeAtFeatherRiver'', Archer rescues the two white woman captured by the Cheyenne, only to discover the younger one, Jennie, has gone native: becoming a full Cheyenne and now engaged to their war chief Thunder Hawk.
* ''Film/BirdOfParadise'' has a young student, Andre, visiting a Polynesian island on the invitation of his native college friend Tenga, and falling in love with Tenga's sister Kalua. Intending to go completely native, he marries her. However, when the local volcano goes off, the ''kahuna'' proclaims that Kalua is the one to AppeaseTheVolcanoGod. Devastated, Andre returns to Europe.

* ''Film/{{Instinct}}'': In a way, as Powell was once an anthropologist studying gorillas who eventually joined a gorilla group and had lived with them for years. He himself says this was an extraordinary and unprecedented event.

* The trope codifier, ''Literature/AManCalledHorse'', is about a white man captured by Native Americans who eventually assimilates into their culture. It is taught in many grade school literature classes in the US.
* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''His Last Command'' from the series Literature/GauntsGhosts, [[spoiler: Gaunt's 'forced' Junior Commissar Ludd betrays his trust by reporting him in the eve of battle]] even though Gaunt fully expects him to do so.
* Creator/MarionZimmerBradley's ''Literature/{{Darkover}}'' novels are full of Terran citizens going native on Darkover; Andrew Carr and Magdalen Lorne are notable examples. There are also Darkovans who try to go Terran.
* ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' by Joseph Conrad (which would later have a famous adaptation in the Vietnam movie ''Film/ApocalypseNow''). Kurtz is sent to Africa as an ivory-procurement agent and suffers a spectacular back story breakdown. The narrative either plays the trope straight or subverts it, depending on the reading, though the latter seems more likely. According to the first reading, Kurtz possibly goes native in horrifying ways, inverting the European life he came from. In the [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation alternate reading]], while he has shed his civilized persona, he still hasn't gone native in a meaningful way. Instead, an unnatural and immoral co-dependent relationship has formed, where the [[MightyWhitey natives worship him as a god]], while he in return treats them with utter ruthlessness, much like an unloving god would. The title of the paper Kurtz had been working on was "Suppression of Savage Customs": it is ended with the sentence, handwritten at a later date, "Exterminate all the Brutes!" Not quite the typical going native.
* Stanislaus Grummann from ''[[Literature/HisDarkMaterials The Subtle Knife]]'' spent the rest of his days as a Siberian shaman.
* In the ''Literature/LiadenUniverse'' books by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, this is an occupational hazard for the Scouts, whose task of exploring new worlds often results in them spending long periods immersed in alien cultures. Many an experienced scout, even among those who resisted the temptation, has retained traits from a culture where he or she felt particularly at home.

* In Creator/StephenieMeyer's adult novel ''Literature/TheHost2008'', the alien invaders, the so-called Souls, are physically inserted into a host body and take control of the host's body. In the titular character's case, the host's mind is still present, and they both think inside Melanie's body, with the Soul eventually coming to identify with the humans around them and help them work against the Soul invasion. Later, the ragtag group of human survivors finally finds another group of survivors with their own dual-minded alien/human, who literally refers to the situation as "going native."
* In Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** The Black Númenóreans who escaped the destruction of the island-realm often ended up living in cultures loyal to Mordor, and becoming their leaders. At least some of the Nazgûl belonged to this group of people, as did the Mouth of Sauron. [[note]]Black is used in the BlackMagic sense, not a racial sense.[[/note]]
** Also in the back story, one of the Kings of Gondor does this when sent as a prince to the ancestors of the Rohirrim. His son's ascension to the throne leads to civil war, and the death of most of the royal line (hastening the end of the line).
** The Elven-Kings of Mirkwood (Oropher and later Thranduil) were originally Sindarin elves who came to the Woodland Realm after the sinking of the sub-continent Beleriand, and ended up adopting the more 'earthy' customs of the Sylvan elves, to the point that Thranduil's son Legolas identifies himself purely as a Sylvan elf.

* On the planet Avalon in Literature/TechnicHistory this Humans and Ythrians Going Native with each other is a minor local tempest in a teapot. As relations between Humans and Ythrians on the planet are good it is usually less the disapproval of the other species, but simply uneasiness at mixing and worrying that those Going Native won't have time for their own.
* In ''Literature/TheYearsOfRiceAndSalt'', a Japanese ronin ends up with a Native American tribe and assimilates into their culture.
* In ''Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong'' from ''Literature/TheThingsTheyCarried'', Mary Anne Bell is the girlfriend of a young medic who falls in love with Vietnam and eventually crosses over to the other side, becoming part of the land.
* Creator/CJCherryh's works:
** In ''Literature/TheFadedSun: Shon'jir'', Niun and Melein give Sten Duncan a choice: Go Native or die.
** In the ''Literature/Foreigner1994'' novels, protagonist Bren Cameron is the representative of the human LostColony to the alien ''atevi'' on whose planet they live. When the humans in charge of the colony's government begin acting like complete morons he throws his lot in with the atevi, both to protect the atevi from being double crossed by the humans and to protect the human colony from the stupidity of their own government. The human electorate eventually wises up and replaces the morons with officials who welcome Bren back, but by that time he's become so deeply enmeshed in the fabric of atevi politics that he decides he can do everyone the most good by staying there.

* In Creator/RosemarySutcliff's ''[[Literature/TheDolphinRing The Lantern Bearers]]'', a young Roman's sister is kidnapped by the Saxons. Years later, he's captured in turn and finds her married to her kidnapper and mother to his son. She helps him escape, but refuses to go with him.
** It's a favourite theme in many of Sutcliff's novels, including ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'', ''Literature/FrontierWolf'', and especially ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheHorseLord''.
* Basil Fotherington-Thomas (from the ''Literature/{{Molesworth}}'' books) fills the Kurtz role in ''Literature/TeddyBearsPicnic'', a bizarre AlternateHistory retelling of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' by Creator/KimNewman. ''Literature/JustWilliam'' also fits as the soldier sent to kill Fotherington-Thomas who ends up joining him.
* In Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's Literature/{{Hainish}} short story "Solitude", Ren, the daughter of a Hainish anthropologist doing fieldwork on the planet Eleven-Soro, goes spectacularly native after living for years in Sorovian society, [[AfterTheEnd such as it is]]. She chooses to remain there even after her mother and brother return to Hain, meaning that [[TimeDilation she'll never see them again]].
* In ''[[Literature/{{Deryni}} King Kelson's Bride]]'', Morag, Mahael and Teymuraz think that Liam-Lajos may have done this during his four years at Kelson's court in Gwynedd, making him unfit to rule Torenth. They discuss the possibility of passing over Liam in favour of his younger brother Ronal-Rurik.
* In the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'', Damodara begins to adopt Rajput ways in the realization that they were the best warriors that the Malwa Empire could field (except for the Kushans with whom they were roughly equal) and flattering them was a way to gain military success and not coincidentally gain the throne.
* ''Literature/EatersOfTheDead'' features an Arab going native amongst Vikings. It's a rare example of an Eastern character going native amongst Westerners.
* One of the characters in ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' [[spoiler:is actually an EldritchAbomination known as the Eater of Souls who was stuck in a human body and trained to pass as an Englishman. The ones doing the training ended up doing too good a job of it.]]
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
** Daenerys Targaryen, from the sedentary Westerosi culture, is married off to Khal Drogo, a warlord of the nomadic Dothraki people, in the hopes of reclaiming Westeros with a Dothraki army. Throughout the first book, she learns the language and customs of the Dothraki people, begins to dress in their style, and develops a fierce loyalty to her new husband. Her older brother Viserys doesn't fare as well, getting offended by Dany's suggestions that he exchange his finery for more practical Dothraki clothing and becoming deeply embittered when he realizes that his sister's assimilation has given her far greater credibility with the Dothraki than he will ever command.
** Jon Snow is forced to do this to the wildlings, becoming a FakeDefector. Ultimately subverted, as he never [[BecomingTheMask becomes the mask]], running off when faced with having to kill an innocent civilian.
** Mance Rayder was raised among the Night's Watch, but abandoned the order and joined the wildlings after spending a few days with a wildling woman and tasting the freedom that they enjoy. He eventually [[MightyWhitey becomes their king]].
** In the backstory, House Targaryen slowly assimilated themselves into Westerosi culture after Aegon's Conquest. They stopped worshipping Valyrian gods in favor of the Seven, ceased practicing slavery, married local Houses, and eventually came to see themselves as Westerosi instead of Essosi. This is a major reason of the difference of opinion between Viserys and Daenerys regarding their place in Westeros. Viserys grew up in King's Landing, so his crusade to retake the Iron Throne is largely driven by [[TheresNoPlaceLikeHome homesickness]]. Daenerys was born in Dragonstone but raised in Essos all her life, so she has no memories in Westeros to cling to. Although she has plans to contest the Iron Throne, she bases it more from her birthright rather than a personal desire. Some characters even question the feasibility of someone who never spent a single day in the Seven Kingdoms wanting to rule it, unless she sees herself as Aegon 2.0 (and even then, Aegon grew up in Dragonstone, so he had far more experiences in Westerosi politics than Daenerys).
* Literature/LightAndDarkTheAwakeningOfTheMageknight: Human [[spoiler:Doug]] is so taken by elfin culture (and one member in particular) that he chooses to [[spoiler:spend the school year studying abroad in the elfin capital.]] In the sequel, he'll likely come back with a penchant for very bland tea.
* In Literature/{{Dune}}, protagonist Paul Atreides and his mother Lady Jessica, after being rescued by the desert-dwelling Fremen, are assimilated into the culture. Paul takes to it very strongly, and is a feared leader and eventually becomes the Fremen's [[MessianicArchetype messiah]].
* In ''Literature/ItCantHappenHere'', [[spoiler: [=Macgoblin=]]] goes native after fleeing to Haiti.
--> When last seen, he was living high up in the mountains of Haiti, wearing only a singlet, dirty white-drill trousers, grass sandals, and a long tan beard; very healthy and happy, occupying a one-room hut with a lovely native girl, practicing modern medicine and studying ancient voodoo.
* One of the ''Literature/NightHuntress'' books has a minor example. [[spoiler:A friend of Cat's asked her to find out what happened to a reporter of his that was investigating the existence of vampires. Turned out the woman in question had found a vampire, and subsequently fallen in love and was living with her.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Seraphina}}'' Dragons are discouraged from this, and punished with a memory-wipe if evidence comes to the Censors.
* In ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', Jason Grace is initially one of the two praetors of New Rome. However, after getting forcibly relocated to the Greek Camp Half-Blood and falling in love with a Greek demigod, he finds himself torn between the two factions until he [[spoiler: fully and officially chooses Greek in the fourth book.]] Conversely, Percy Jackson is forcibly relocated to New Rome, and after being made a member of the Legion in the wake of a massive battle, becomes more and more attracted to Rome, particularly the safe life he and his LoveInterest could live there, protected by the Legion. He has not chosen Rome yet, but it seems likely he will at some point.
* Repeatedly PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', where many barbarian armies have tried to take over Ankh-Morpork. In a matter of months they are somewhat confused to find that their weapons and horses are now property of Ankh-Morpork merchants, and that they are now just another minority with their own fast-food places and gang graffiti.
* What Renzi does in the latter parts of ''Artemis'' on a Pacific island the crew visits. Luckily, {{Literature/Kydd}} is there to (literally) knock him out of it before the [[Main/ImaHumanitarian cannibalistic]] rival tribe of the islanders hosting them can get there.
* One of the protagonists of Creator/DianeDuane's ''Literature/TheRomulanWay'' is Terise Haleakala-[=LoBrutto=], a Starfleet DeepCoverAgent tasked with improving the Federation's understanding of the secretive Romulans. By the end of the book she openly admits to Bones [=McCoy=] that she's come to love living on ch'Rihan, and refuses his offer to be extracted with him.
* ''Literature/AlienInASmallTown'' is about an alien calling himself "Paul," who opts to go native on Earth. Of course, Paul is a [[StarfishAliens completely nonhumanoid alien]] and he chooses to live with [[UsefulNotes/{{Amish}} the Pennsylvania Dutch,]] which makes it more complicated.
* In ''Literature/GunsOfTheDawn'', the armies of Lascanne and Denland are fighting through a swamp, and Mallen, the chief scout on the Lascanne side, has spent so long there that his sympathies lie more with the swamp's "indigines" than with either army. He helps his own side in the fight, but always in a way which doesn't conflict with his apparently higher priority of keeping the indigines out of harm's way.
* Happens to Hope's sister, Faith, in ''Literature/HopeLeslie''.

* ''Literature/TheGanymedeTakeover'' by Creator/PhilipKDick and Ray Nelson. An alien official is sent to rule over part of VichyEarth, and is shocked to find his predecessor (also an alien) has become a Catholic and has a hobby of collecting model WWI airplanes.
* Author [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassie_Edwards Cassie Edwards]] wrote over 100 bodice ripper romance novels, particularly the ''Savage'' series, all of which feature a white woman hooking up with a Native American man and adopting the ways of his tribe. And while she's the most prominent example, she's not the only author to employ this scenario.
* A literal example occurs in the Creator/RayBradbury short story ''Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed'', about the first colony on Mars. The Martians all died out centuries ago, but as time goes on the colonists gradually change into Martians themselves and abandon the settlement, until a follow-up expedition sent to find the vanished colonists assumes they are a previously undiscovered native tribe.
* In ''Literature/PrincessHolyAura'' this is how Stephen Russ plans to handle the problem of finding the rest of the Apocalypse Maidens.
* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Literature/RedHarvest''. Protagonist detective, The Continental Op, comes to city of Personville (also known as [[WretchedHive Poisonville]]) and soon in process of trying to rid the city of organized crime he becomes involved with several gangsters, kills many people directly and indirectly, and shoots a cop. In books probably most famous quote, when talking about it, he compares his situation of slowly becoming corrupted by the town to this trope.
--> This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.
* In Creator/FrancisCarsac's ''La Vermine du Lion'' (''The Lion's Parasites''), the protagonist is a geologist, who ends up growing fond of the primitive natives of a planet that has attracted the attention of a powerful interstellar corporation, seeking the planet's natural resources. The geologist ends up helping the locals force the Earth government to establish a quarantine around the planet, thus protecting it from exploitation.
* In ''[[Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark Envoy from the Heavens]]'', Trevelyan eventually learns that a researcher named Hugo Tasman, who is listed as MIA by the Foundation, has found a life for himself on the MedievalStasis world of Osier, where he's made himself a nobleman and married a local woman. While he can never have children with her (these HumanAliens are incompatible with humans), he is still far happier here than back on Earth. Trevelyan agrees to keep his secret, and [[spoiler:the Paraprims agree to allow Tasman to stay, as long he doesn't mess with the local culture]].
* In ''Literature/TheOverstory'', the [[TheCynic cynical]] Adam Appich surveys a group of environmental activists fighting deforestation in order to explore their psychology and understand why some people choose to [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman hold non-humans as so much more morally important than others do.]] He ends up [[TookALevelInIdealism Taking a Level In Idealism]] and joining forces with them instead.

* ''Series/TheTerror'': "Tell them we are gone." [[spoiler:One of them hadn't 'gone' as in died, he'd 'gone' as in this trope.]]

* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' has one example so far. Dr Peter Sawyer, the Hairless Warrior or Kioth-Tanied, went native after witnessing the genocide of a Venusian concordat at the hands of their traditional enemies and aggressive Earthling corporations. He now leads a band while his parents worry for him back on Earth.
* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' has the Wolf's Dragoons, a mercenary unit that was, in reality, a scouting party for the Clans from somewhere deep in the Deep Periphery to determine the strength of the Inner Sphere. Eventually, however, most of the Wolf's Dragoons abandoned their original directive and warned the Inner Sphere of the imminent Clan Invasion, known to the Clans as Operation: REVIVAL. Until the Dark Age, at least, long after the Clan Invasion was over, they have continued to serve as a mercenary unit within the Inner Sphere.

* In an "undercover cop switches sides" example of the trope, the John Woo game ''VideoGame/{{Stranglehold}}'' features Jerry Ying, Tequila's partner, who has gone undercover with Wong's Dragon Claw syndicate. The more time he spends around Wong's crew, however, the more he begins to identify with them instead of the cops he's supposed to be one of. It all comes to a head when [[spoiler: Wong orders Jerry to kill Tequila and [[OffingTheOffspring Wong's own daughter Billie]], who Tequila loves and had a daughter by. Tequila survives, but Billie is not so lucky, setting up a furious showdown between partners as Tequila seeks vengeance for Billie]].
* Many characters with MultipleEndings in the ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' games whose relationship with someone from another planet gets to a certain point will choose to live on that planet with them.
* In the ''[[VideoGame/{{Ultima}} Worlds of Ultima]]'' game ''VideoGame/WorldsOfUltimaTheSavageEmpire'', several recruitable party members are ''{{Expy}}''s from previous games who have gone through this trope, with amnesia to boot.
* In ''VideoGame/SplinterCell: Double Agent'', the NSA constantly worries about Sam Fisher going native and actively joining John Brown's Army. In the bad ending, that's exactly what he does. In the neutral ending, that's what everyone ''thinks'' he does.

** The Geth platform known as Legion assimilates somewhat into human culture by appropriating N7 human special forces armor, using the handle “n7infiltrator” while gaming, contributes a lot of money to a human charity for victims of a Geth attack, and even recognizes a Bible chapter and verse when it is named Legion.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', according to some of [[WordOfGod the writers]], after his lengthy debriefing by his Qunari superiors, Sten will likely have to go for re-education by the Ben-Hassrath to iron out all of the bad habits he's picked up during his time in Ferelden. Sten seems aware of this if he and the Dog are the ones chosen to rescue the Warden from Fort Drakon.
--->'''Sten''': And now I am ''talking'' to an animal. I have been in this country ''too'' long!
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Like Sten before him, The Iron Bull is sent by his Qunari superiors to learn about the goings-on in Andrastian society, and picks up many of their habits and worldviews. It gets to the point that he isn't sure if he's still a Qunari spy pretending to be a mercenary, or a Tal-Vashoth (deserter) pretending to still be part of the Qun. [[spoiler: Unlike Sten, the PC can tip the balance by encouraging him to either become full Tal-Vashoth, or strengthen his loyalty to the Qun.]]
* In ''VideoGame/FarCry3'', Jason Brody's growing adaptation to the native [[ProudWarriorRace Rakyat]] culture and his own latent BloodKnight tendencies drive a significant portion of the plot. [[spoiler: Towards the end of the game, he decides to stay with the Rakyat rather than leave with his friends. The player's choice to either have Jason reject their culture or accept it and stay (and murder his friends in the process) [[MultipleEndings decides the ending of the game]]]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'':
** The majority of the core members of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn are scholars of Sharlayan who grew fed up with its HeadInTheSandManagement and followed Louisoix to Eorzea to help solve the problems that plague the entire world. By the present, the Scions identify as Eorzeans for the most part and fight to defend the land against the many things that prevent lasting peace.
** The Warrior of Light is a traveler from outside of Eorzea who came to make their fortune as an adventurer. Their various escapades soon have them standing with the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and the Eorzean Alliance against the greatest threats the world has ever known, essentially making them an Eorzean in all but birth. They also never correct anyone when they're referred to as an Eorzean, showing that they've adopted the land as their own.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the PlayerCharacter is encouraged to do this as part of his/her cover story. Joining a Great House — even the most Imperialized House, Hlaalu, is still at core a Dunmer house based on Dunmer traditions — and just looking out for the interests of Morrowind's people first, prominently mentioned when [[spoiler:Caius Cosades is recalled]], leaving you the highest ranking Blade in the area. It's entirely possible to go full-blown, avoid all the non-Blade Imperial factions, and join just a Great House and the Temple (unless you go native in the Telvanni — their traditions discourage giving more than the absolute minimum of tolerance to the Tribunal).
* The whole shtick of the [[NatureHero Harmony]] affinity in ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth''. They eventually get the ability to breathe and heal in the formerly-poisonous air and tame the local creatures, and their [[InstantWinCondition victory condition]] is to integrate themselves into the [[GeniusLoci mind of the (sentient) planet]].
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/ReahFaceTheUnknown''. Several human colonists from planet Reah visited its sister version in AnotherDimension, which also keeps advanced human technology from working there, forcing these colonists to blend in with the natives and conduct first-hand observation among them. But the ones you see in-game actually want to return back to Earth.
* When a free colonist unit visits an Indian village in ''VideoGame/{{Colonization}}'', they can ordered to stay with the natives for a turn to learn useful skills, like tobacco planting.
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/{{Tribes}}'', the [[TheEmpire Earth Empire]] sent their elite Blood Eagle knights to suppress rebellions from the Order of the Phoenix. The Blood Eagles came to like life in the lawless frontier, though, and became a Tribe, themselves.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has this in the ''Heavensward'' expansion as the reveal for [[spoiler: Lucia. She was originally a [[TheEmpire Garlean spy]] sent in to infiltrate Ishgard and see if they had any means of accessing Azys Lla. Lucia became Aymeric's 2nd in command to the Temple Knights and played her part well, but once she saw how much of a good person Aymeric was and what Ishgard went through with the dragons, she grew fond of him and the nation and she willingly revealed herself as a spy. Aymeric didn't care that Lucia was a spy and was glad that not only she revealed the truth, but was also glad that she wanted to fight for Ishgard's cause.]]

* The Another World Team from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' were originally from different time periods and dimensions (Nakoruru is an Ainu priestess from 18th century Japan, Mui Mui is a kungfu fighter from Ancient China and Love Heart the Sky Pirate is from another dimension where magic airships and floating islands exist) before suddenly appearing in modern day Earth. As a result, they find many things on the modern era strange like television. By the time of ''Videogame/SNKHeroinesTagTeamFrenzy'', which takes place after the team's first debut, Another World team has gotten use to living on Earth, including wearing modern clothes and using smartphones.

* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[VillainProtagonist Taylor]] finds herself becoming friends with the supervillain gang that she infiltrates, intending to betray them.
* Played with a few times in ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':
** In [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/sarkic-case-study-01-the-vas-n-a-of-sarvi An Anthropological Approach to Sarkicism]], after taking a ceremonial hallucinogenic mushroom, Dr. Desmarais denies having gone native.
** Played with in the story of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4036 Norman Taylor]], an 1850s American imperialist who became enamored with an indigenous Polynesian form of Sarkicism he finds. However, he still engages in White Man's Burden and feels a moral need to civilize the peoples he finds to save them from colonial exploitation.
* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'':
** The pilot introduces Carlos the Scientist, who has just arrived in the titular town to study its many oddities. While Carlos is initially terrified by sky-high radiation levels, the decay of space-time, and a house that doesn't exist, one year into his residency in Night Vale he comes to terms with the strangeness. Six months after THAT, he's so nonchalant about a sudden suspension of the laws of gravity that he takes it as an opportunity to clean his gutters.
** In an earlier episode, in-universe explanation for Carlos's [[TheNthDoctor new voice actor]] was that he'd put in new vocal chords in order to prevent throat spiders...and performed the procedure himself.

* Wikus in ''Film/{{District 9}}'' had this problem, although in his case it was due to a BalefulPolymorph and not a crashed ship.

** Dev Sibwarra in ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura'' was a Force-sensitive human slave of the ScaryDogmaticAliens known as the Ssi-ruuk, having been captured by them at the age of ten and groomed into becoming a fanatic adherent to their way of life. He helped them with their UnwillingRoboticisation [[TheQuisling of other humans]], and [[NightmareFetishist considered it to be the highest honor a person could receive while desiring to be made into a battle droid himself]] before a FaceHeelTurn and RedemptionEqualsDeath.

* Buzz Lightyear in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': "Even though you tried to terminate me, revenge is not an idea that we promote on my planet... but we're not ''on'' my planet, are we?"

** Dev Sibwarra in ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura'' was a Force-sensitive human slave of the ScaryDogmaticAliens known as the Ssi-ruuk, having been captured by them at the age of ten and groomed into becoming a fanatic adherent to their way of life. He helped them with their UnwillingRoboticisation [[TheQuisling of other humans]], and [[NightmareFetishist considered it to be the highest honor a person could receive while desiring to be made into a battle droid himself]].

* ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi'': Sand People occasionally use kidnapping to replenish their ranks, but on one occasion, a Jedi left the Order and willingly became a Tusken warlord. Sharad Hett's life is covered elsewhere in the Franchise/StarWarsLegends, but had an impact on A'Yark, Hett's sister-in-law. She believes Ben could be another mighty warlord for her people, and tries to convince him to join them. Ben seriously considers the idea as a way to protect Luke Skywalker covertly.
* {{Invoked}} by the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' Mandalorians. They are not so much a race as a culture, since the original Taung species died out well before their rise to galactic prominence. If there's a worthy fighter who follows their code, wears the armor, speaks the language, fights under Mandalore's banner, and an established Mandalorian adopts or marries them into the clans (and age/gender/species isn't a hindrance), then the adoptee is just as much a Mando as one born into it. They've been known to recruit orphans or captives, or to hold tournaments (like the Great Hunt) to find worthy recruits, and even a few Jedi traded their robes for ''bes'kar'' armor. They see this method as both the way to get the best warriors possible and to keep their culture alive, even though it's under constant threat from their love of war. As long as there is one Mando who can find, teach, and adopt (or sire/birth) an heir, the Mandalorians are still alive.

** In the ''Literature/{{Foreigner}}'' novels, protagonist Bren Cameron is the representative of the human LostColony to the alien ''atevi'' on whose planet they live. When the humans in charge of the colony's government begin acting like complete morons he throws his lot in with the atevi, both to protect the atevi from being double crossed by the humans and to protect the human colony from the stupidity of their own government. The human electorate eventually wises up and replaces the morons with officials who welcome Bren back, but by that time he's become so deeply enmeshed in the fabric of atevi politics that he decides he can do everyone the most good by staying there.

** T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), as an archaeologist in Arabia, went native long before the war. He was chosen as a liaison to the Arab rebels because he knew their ways so well and could speak most of their dialects. Particularly, he was one of the few British officers who didn't speak Arabic with an Egyptian dialect, which gained him the respect of the (peninsular) Arab leaders. He was sent to organize the Arabs against the Turks to weaken the German-Turkish-Austrian alliance but felt very conflicted about the whole process because he knew that the British and French were not going to keep their wartime promise of a free, united Arab state. He asked for a transfer to get out of leading a fake revolution--when his request was denied, he attempted to make the revolution successful enough to stick. He failed. After the war, he left Arabia for good, changed his name to Shaw, and joined the RAF as a mechanic, and lapsed into anonymity. The famous {{Biopic}} ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' more or less dealt with his failure to fully cross the line.

* When UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte conquered much of Europe, he put many of his brothers on the thrones of client kingdoms, seeking to establish an international Bonaparte dynasty rivaling that of the Habsburgs. This backfired when he made his younger brother Louis the King of Holland. Instead of acting as a PuppetKing like he'd hoped, Louis made genuine attempts to care for his new subjects and endear himself to them, styling himself as ''Lodewijk I'', learning the Dutch language (during a speech he memorably called himself ''Konijn van 'Olland'' instead of ''Koning van Holland'', i.e. the Rabbit of Holland), turning a blind eye to smugglers who traded with the English, and rebuffing his brother's demand to draft 30,000 men for his ''Grande Armée''. Napoleon eventually became so fed up with him that he just annexed the Netherlands outright so he could rule it directly.

* The movie ''WesternAnimation/BattleForTerra''.

** The same thing happened in District 5, where every

* Anne Boonchuy in ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' starts out understandably reluctant to eat the local cuisine of mostly bugs, but within a month is fine with it, much to her own horror. By season 2, she starts using the local euphemisms.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Cossacks}}'', a young early [[TheCavalierYears 17th century]] Lithuanian Hussar from the UsefulNotes/PolishLithuanianCommonwealth who deserts the Polish army to join a group of UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} and live among them, learning their ways.

** While Victorian and Edwardian British administrators and soldiers in British India were very derogatory about the native culture --[[WhiteMansBurden partly to justify their rule]] -- --their 18th-century predecessors were much more complimentary -- sometimes to the point of worshipfulness. The early years of the East India Company had many so-called "White Mughals" who adopted local customs and languages and marrying local women, and even took to {{Polygamy}} and conversion. (You can read about this in ''White Mughals'' by William Dalrymple; he says this was a time of widespread interracial sexual exploration, cultural assimilation and hybridity, and that nearly all Englishmen in India at that time did this.) The later Company generals nixed this hard, ostracizing many of these men. The British Raj and other colonies instituted a kind of apartheid to avoid mixing too much with the locals, or identifying with them too much. But the "white Mughal" tradition lives in the plethora of words, items, habits and tropes in modern British culture that stem from Indian culture.[[note]]Read ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' with this in mind. Sara is described as having heavy, lustrous black hair and dark skin ("little brown hands"). Author Frances Burnett would have been aware of the existence of children like Noor un-Nissa, later known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Kirkpatrick Kitty Kirkpatrick]], from these once-sanctioned unions. Sara, who is convinced she is a princess no matter what her circumstances, may well be the granddaughter of an actual Mughal princess.[[/note]]

* There also exists inversions of this trope, where instead of someone assimilating into the local culture, [[RussianReversal the local culture assimilates into that someone]]:

* ''Film/AManCalledHorse'', in which a white man joins the Sioux. It's considerably more honest about less pleasant aspects of Sioux traditional life, such as the torture of captives and the Sun Dance[[note]]One of the supreme sacred acts of Native life, associated mostly with the Lakhota but not limited to Plains tradition, the Sun Dance is [[http://www.thespiraljournal.com/2012/06/you-mean-like-in-a-man-called-horse/ a ceremony of thanksgiving, self-offering, and commitment]] and portrayed fairly accurately here.[[/note]] than ''Dances With Wolves''. However, it was criticized for still having a white main character,[[note]]It's certainly not that Native tribes including the Lakhota didn't adopt Anglo men and women: they did, quite frequently, and there was plenty of intermarriage.[[/note]] with practices attributed to the Sioux actually alleged to be a mix of Mandan and Crow tradition (the Crow were ''enemies'' of the Sioux, ironically). American Indian activist Buffy Sainte Marie called it "the whitest of movies [she had] ever seen."

* Amusingly inverted in Creator/NeilGaiman's Franchise/SherlockHolmes pastiche, ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'', where the [[EldritchAbomination Great Old Ones]] returned to Earth centuries ago, but instead of wiping out the humanity, or forcing us to adapt their ways instead assumed leadership in human terms, resulting in a pseudo-Victorian world where most people lead entirely normal lives despite of that most of the crowned heads of Europe have an unpleasant number of tentacles under them, and even consider their existence a blessing that makes the civilization possible at all.

This is also what can happen to a ForeignRulingClass: they could take more and more of their subjects' culture until becoming entirely assimilated.

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* Following a dimension hop in ''Fanfic/TheDifferenceOneManCanMake'', Harry ends up in Westeros, more precisely North of the Wall. When Benjen Stark explains him the Seven Kingdoms and the Land of Eternal Winter, he decides he likes more the freedom enjoyed by the wildlings and stays amongst them.

* When the Dursley family moves to New Orleans in ''Fanfic/LeCommencementDuDiableBlanc'', young Harry enjoys so much his new life he learns French, gains a respect for Cajun culture, and ultimately cuts every tie to his past life when he's adopted and renamed "[[ComicBook/{{Gambit}} Remy]]" by the native Jean-Luc [=LeBeau=].
* Jon Snow in ''Fanfic/ADovahkiinSpreadsHisWings'' found himself lost in Skyrim at fourteen years old, and assimilated so well in the local cultures he suffers CultureClash when he goes back to Westeros in order to visit his family. His father and older brother are shown to be rather upset over his growing apart from them.
* ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'': Two dozen District 4 peacekeepers side with the Rebellion, stepping aside for them to take the armory, led by the deputy head, whose noted as this specifically.

* In ''Fanfic/TheMoonsFlashPrincess'' is noted that [[Manga/SailorMoon Minako Aino]] lived for years in Europe, and France in particular, and is culturally more [[FunnyForeigner an eccentric Frenchwoman]] than Japanese.
* Hilariously alluded in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5858012/7/Sibling-Revelry Sibling Revelry]]" when a group of technicians try to escape the ''Executor'' to flee from Vader's ire and is shot down by an Ensign. The shuttle crashed on Endor and the survivors are adopted by Ewoks.