History Main / CulturalStereotypes

** For the ultimate example of this for Conservatives: AlGore. Conservatives argue that Gore has never really bothered to explain why people should take him seriously when he tells everyone else to conserve resources despite his own massive wastes, other than to say that it's okay because he bought carbon credits... from himself. It's little wonder he's the favorite (and "acceptable") target of nonbelievers in human-caused climate change. Gore's defenders would argue that Gore's line of work, environmental advocacy, inevitably require resource-intensive travel, and that Gore is being held to an impossible standard by those who are just trying to shut him up. They would argue, also, that Gore's investment in, profiting from, green technology is an ideal and practical strategy in a capitalist economy - the same ethos most of Gore's opponents claim to lionize.

* Clint Eastwood does it hilariously and memorably in GranTorino when he successfully intimidates a group of black gangsters and a "wigger" nearby cheers, Clint growls "These guys don't want to be your brothers, and I don't blame them!"

* MichaelMoore is often accused of this.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub''. The members of the Host Club (especially [[UpperClassTwit Tamaki]]) are depicted as well-meaning, but [[ShelteredAristocrat hopelessly out of touch]] with the middle- and lower-classes. For example, they regard instant coffee and instant ramen as interesting novelties, and the Hitachiin brothers mistake Haruhi's description of a kiddie pool for that of an inflatable raft.

* Camden, the setting of ''MyNameIsEarl'' started off as a typical rural-south town. Although it ''did'' have a trailer park (and a few zany characters therein), it wasn't too over the top. By Season 4, it underwent {{Flanderization}} into a bizarre and backwards CloudCuckooland.

* On ''MyNameIsEarl'', Earl is solving an item on his list related to this: taking advantage of [[NaiveEverygirl young women]] from a nearby Amish-like village (which is now facing a shortage of women, seeing as Earl and Randy showed them what they were missing!) The village is described as being ''so'' extremely Luddite that even ''the wheel'' is looked upon as an abomination.

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'''Cultures That No Longer Exist'''

** Originated in Al Capp's ''LilAbner'' newspaper cartoon during the Cold War as "Lower Slobbovia", a parody of Siberia, as being worse than the hillbilly town of Dogpatch.

* While AccentuateTheNegative is his general style, [[http://joshreads.com/ Josh Fruhlinger]] (a.k.a. Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon) seems to reserve a special level of contempt and disdain for the newspaper comic ''{{Pluggers}}'', which typically chronicles the exploits of older, more rural individuals. Each one is rephrased as a way to say that such individuals are, among other things, alcoholics, abusers, morons, or occasionally racists.
** And don't forget all the meth labs and cross burnings in [[SnuffySmith Hootin Holler]]!
** As well as the denizens of [[MarkTrail Lost Forest]] -- which is rather bizarre, since these days, [[GreenAesop over-the-top environmentalism]] is more generally associated with elitist, middle-to-upper-class liberals.

* And turned on its head in ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode 'Funny, You Don't Look Rhennish'. The reason why the LawyerFriendlyCameo Rhennish are rural poor? [[spoiler:They're ''not'' living on a pile of valuable minerals.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' {{DLC}} [[DeepSouth 'Point Lookout']], one branch of enemies are... Well, [[RefugeInAudacity grossly exaggerated]] hillbilly stereotypes. They live in run-down wooden shacks. They dress in torn workers' jeans. They are hideously deformed by inbreeding. Their mental capacity has devolved to the point where they can only speak short sentences (in thick dialects, of course) and [[DumbMuscle attack everything that moves]], wielding double-barrel shotguns, [[AxCrazy axes]] and {{shovel|Strike}}. They brew moonshine. [[IAmAHumanitarian They eat people.]] Also, they are registered in the games programming as creatures rather than NPC's

* While AccentuateTheNegative is his general style, [[http://joshreads.com/ Josh Fruhlinger]] (aka TheComicsCurmudgeon) seems to reserve a special level of contempt and disdain for the newspaper comic ''{{Pluggers}}'', which typically chronicles the exploits of older, more rural individuals. Each one is rephrased as a way to say that such individuals are, among other things, alcoholics, abusers, morons, or occasionally racists.

** LexLuthor, Derrick Powers, and a handful of others from various DC properties, not so much.

* Pretty viciously portrayed in one of the faux-documentary interviews in OtakuNoVideo.

* ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon'' takes everything about dragons and deconstructs it in front of you. And Hiccup himself deconstructs this for everyone in the film not named Hiccup.

* For the most part, the "old money" crowd is treated as a bunch of inhumane, amoral [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]] who don't give a fig for the rest of humanity in the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''. One of the regular themes was a heroic scientist creating some amazing breakthrough that made him "new money" wealthy, and then having to deal with the "old money" types sneering at them.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan: Both the anime and manga go to exceptional lengths to paint absolutely everyone with any semblance of income as selfish, vile or sadistic. The series gets more and more aggressive in this portrayal, with a chief example being that [[spoiler:the heroes purposely allow and even encourage the deaths of thousands of the inner-wall rich folk by releasing a dangerous titan among the populous in the hopes that they will be taken more seriously. This is presented as a heroic act to the reader/watcher.]] And it only gets worse.

* FamilyGuy: Carter Pewterschmidt

* DungeonsAndDragons players have been known to use kobolds as AcceptableTargets for pseudo-ethnic jokes. (Q: What do the kobold invaders arm their siege catapults with? A: Volunteers. Twang-zoom-splat, another one bites the dust ... )

* Florin and Guilder in ThePrincessBride, whatever WilliamGoldman may say.

* Hell, JeffFoxworthy has based his ''career'' around this joke!

* [[{{Ruritania}} Non-existent Eastern European countries]] are a particular favorite, including Latka Gravas's home country on ''{{Taxi}}'', Balki Bartokomous's Mypos on ''Perfect Strangers'', and ''Borat'' 's fictitious Kazakhstan, which shares its name with an actual country. ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s Elbonia is at one extreme with inhabitants who are barely human, while Genovia in ''The Princess Diaries'' seems to be a prosperous, modern duchy except for its antiquated laws of inheritance.

** Or, in the case of the person saying it, because a toon killed his brother.

* {{Attack on Titan}}: Both the anime and manga go to exceptional lengths to paint absolutely everyone with any semblance of income as selfish, vile or sadistic. The series gets more and more aggressive in this portrayal, with a chief example being that [[spoiler: the heroes purposely allow and even encourage the deaths of thousands of the inner-wall rich folk by releasing a dangerous titan among the populous in the hopes that they will be taken more seriously. This is presented as a heroic act to the reader/watcher.]] And it only gets worse.

* ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' we really aren't spoiling anything by pointing out the traitor here....
* ''ThePunisher'' a lackey with long hair is singled out for the most brutal death, despite having almost no screen time.

* Averted in the movie ''MeetJoeBlack,'' wherein Anthony Hopkins' character is fabulously wealthy with a huge mansion on an enormous estate, but is portrayed as a morally upright, likable family man who worked hard for everything he has.
* Averted with Sir Anthony again in TheEdge. He saves the life of the man who was sleeping with his wife and trying to kill him in the wild.

** The positive portrayal of the wealthy is very intentional, the original author [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Orphan_Annie#Controversy was highly conservative]] and consequently a huge fan of the self-made businessmen. He used his spite instead on things like labor unions and [[FranklinDRoosevelt New Deal programs]].