Basic Trope: Someone is thought to be a different nationality than they actually are.
- Straight: Viktor is Ukrainian, but Alice thinks he's Russian.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice can't tell what nationality anyone is, and always guesses wrong when she tries to make a guess.
- Even after Viktor tries to correct her, Alice still doesn't get it, and she keeps thinking that he's Russian anyway.
- Downplayed:
- Viktor is Ukrainian-Russian, but Alice thinks he's only Russian.
- Alice wonders if Viktor might be Russian, but she doesn't try to make any assumptions right off the bat.
- Justified:
- Due to Small Reference Pools, Alice has never heard of Ukraine before, and Russia is the only other Slavic country she can think of.
- As Viktor's ethnicity is 70% Russian, Alice assumed that to be his nationality.
- Alice heard Viktor speaking Russian, so she drew the logical conclusion.
- Inverted: Fake Nationality - Viktor is intentionally trying to be seen as a different nationality.
- Subverted: Alice was merely using Russian to mean Soviet. note
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Alice never assumes what nationality anyone is.
- Alice correctly guesses where Viktor is from.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice asks Viktor where he's from instead of trying to assume for herself.
- Discussed: "Why do you think I'm from Russia?"
- Conversed: ???
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