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-->'''Osaka:''' In American homes.. (...) You can go inside with your shoes, right?\\

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'', a foaming at the mouth rabid dog enters Britain through the then recently opened Channel Tunnel, followed shortly by its French owner, who explains that the dog isn't rabid but ate some soap having mistaken it for cheese, because we do not have soap in France.

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* ''FanFic/ABrighterDark'': Hoshidans tend to have this opinion of anyone who isn't Hoshidan. Nohrians especially, but also non-humans and tribals.

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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.
* Historical downtimers are treated this way in Literature/TimeScout.

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-->'''Osaka''': In American homes.. (...) You can go inside with your shoes, right?\\
'''Yukari-sensei''': Yes..\\
'''Osaka''': [[FridgeHorror Then what if they step on dog poop and go back inside home without noticing? What if the American dad, mom, brothers and sisters step on dog poop and go inside without noticing?]]

-->'''Lewis''': ...and that's why the French don't wash.

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.

* In {{Viz}}, a foaming at the mouth rabid dog enters Britain through the then recently opened Channel Tunnel, followed shortly by its French owner, who explains that the dog isn't rabid but ate some soap having mistaken it for cheese, because we do not have soap in France.

'''Osaka''': [[FridgeHorror Then what if they step on dog poop and go back inside home without noticing. What if the American dad, mom, brothers and sisters step on dog poop and go inside without noticing?]]

* The very first line in ''TheDrewCareyShow'' was an OrphanedPunchline about this.

* This appears in various iterations of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' as a stereotype of Klingons; Starfleet crewmen make racist jokes about Klingon hygeine and body odor in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' and Q makes similar barbs about Worf in ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'', even in Worf's presence (he's a [[PhysicalGod god]], what could Worf do to him?).

* ''ThisAmericanLife'': in a bit by David Sedaris that takes place while he's living in France, on the French subway he [[BilingualBackfire overhears]] an ugly American HawaiianShirtedTourist and his wife talking loudly about (among other things) how much French people stink. Including Sedaris, who (a) isn't French, he's only living there and (b) just took a bath.

* In {{Tom Sharpe}}'s novels, the mutual respect with which the two kinds of white South Africans look upon each other... both British-descended and Dutch-descended Afrikaaners will use the trope of soap-innocence to describe each other...

See also ThePigpen.

NoRealLifeExamples, please. There is a reason that the character who implements this trope is usually looked upon in a negative light.

** 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 had to go back to using communal bathrooms on Earth.

-->'''Osaka''': In American homes.. (...) You can go inside without your shoes, right?\\

* {{Borat}} portrays Kazakhs this way.

* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''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.

See also ThePigpen.

* In IsaacAsimov's ''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.

This trope is strange in that it, in particular, unlike the EvilForeigner and 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.

* This appears in various iterations of ''StarTrek'' as a stereotype of Klingons; Starfleet crewmen make racist jokes about Klingon hygeine and body odor in ''StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' and Q makes similar barbs about Worf in ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'', even in Worf's presence (he's a [[PhysicalGod god]], what could Worf do to him?).

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.

This trope is strange in that it, in particular, unlike the evil foreigner and 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.

* [[CloudCuckoolander Osaka]] begins wondering along the lines of this trope at one point in ''AzumangaDaioh!''.

This trope is strange in that it, in particular, unlike the EvilForeigner and 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.

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