Basic Trope: The continent of Africa is generalized to the point of undermining its diversity compared to other broad continents.
- Straight: Alex talks to Jordan about their countries of origin. Jordan (Black American) opens with a discussion of Germany's culture and cities. Alex (White American) talks about Africa as if it were one huge country with Jordan just as ignorant as Alex.
- Exaggerated: Alex and Jordan write a report about 5 different countries and their cultures. They describe each country in great detail including a timeline for each town and tradition. Africa, the 5th country, only takes up 3 pages and describes a large savannah country.
- Downplayed:
- Alex and Jordan try to talk about the whole of Africa without calling it a single country, but they barely know about specific cultures aside from South Africa.
- Africans Alex and Jordan are stated to be Nigerian and Ugandan respectively, but no cultural differences are noted, or misattributed to another, and they are both treated as generically African.
- While more well-known African countries like Egypt and Kenya are differentiated between in some manner, more little-known countries are merely treated as part of a larger whole.
- Alex and Jordan refer Francophone, Anglophone, Lusophone, and Arab African countries as four collective countries, other countries (Like Ethiopia) are ignored.
- Africa is treated as a one huge country, in a Space-Filling Empire setting.
- Justified:
- Alex and Jordan are just not aware of Africa being a continent just like Europe.
- Alex and Jordan grew up in an ignorant community that didn't teach them these things.
- Alex and Jordan live in an Alternate Universe or future where the entire continent of Africa becomes a United Republic, becoming simultaneously a country and continent like Australia.
- Alex and Jordan tend to conflate the sub-continent of South Africa with the nation of South Africa.
- Inverted: Alex and Jordan are having a conversation about Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Uganda along with their contributions to Bollywood. Jordan also believes he/she is mostly Nigerian. Alex decides to shift their conversation to the country of Asia and Europe.
- Subverted:
- Alex starts talking to Jordan about Africa, but shifts the conversation to South Africa and their culture.
- Alex and Jordan talk about Africa in terms of broad regions. This is because they are talking about geography and ecology and lines on maps aren't relevant.
- Double Subverted: ... turns out he was referring to "South Africa" as a region rather than a country.
- Parodied: Humans are shown being offended at aliens making overbroad statements about earth which resemble infamous statements about Africa.
- Zig-Zagged: The country of Sierra Leone is mentioned a few times, but most of the discussion refers to it as "Africa", including the exact same context in which non-African countries are referred to as their country name, not what continent they are from.
- Averted: African countries are clearly delineated.
- Enforced: The executives think Viewers Are Morons and won't want to hear about African countries they didn't know about.
- Lampshaded: "Nigeria? Botswana? Seychelles? Is It Something You Eat? in a country called Africa?"
- Invoked: Alex and Jordan are pan-Africanists, so they refer to Africa as a country to promote their ideas.
- Exploited: During a game show, Alex and Jordan's opponents, who know that they don't know Africa is a continent, pick a category of questions about Africa, knowing Alex and Jordan won't be able to answer them.
- Defied: Alex and Jordan do their research about each African countries to ensure no misattribution occurs.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Alex and Jordan are UpperClassTwits who conflate Africa so completely they cannot agree if Africa has jungles, savannas, or deserts but both agree that having all three would be impossible..
- Played for Drama: At least one countries in Africa colonizes all of the other African countries to take over a whole continent, and forces the civilians to follow their tradition and speak only government-recognized language(s).
- Played for Horror: Similar to the "Played for Drama" above, but genocide also applies.
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... wait a sec, that’s the entire website, use Africa Is a Country instead.