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+ PositiveStereotypeTropes
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* MultinationalTeam: A team of heroes has members from different countries.

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* MultinationalTeam: A team of heroes has members from different countries.countries, race or ethnicity.
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* MultinationalTeam: A team of heroes has members from different countries.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: A character has brownish skin, but it's not clear whether that should indicate their ethnicity.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: A character has brownish skin, brown skin but it's not clear whether that should indicate their unknown ethnicity.
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* WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: An OddCouple consisting of a straight-laced white guy and a streetwise black guy.
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* {{Yellowface}}: A racist performance involving people who are no East Asian wearing makeup to look like they are.

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* {{Yellowface}}: A racist performance involving people who are no not East Asian wearing makeup to look like they are.
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* SaltAndPepper

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Renamed trope


* GentileJewChaser



* MatzoFever
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Also see PrejudiceTropes. Not to be confused with TheBigRace. The StandardFantasyRaces are categories of fantasy creatures.

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Also see PrejudiceTropes. Not to be confused with TheBigRace. The StandardFantasyRaces and LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces are categories of fantasy creatures.creatures rather than human ethnic groups.
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* AcceptableEthnicTargets: Ethnic/racial groups that are widely considered okay to make fun of.
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Not a race trope


* {{Macekre}}
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* PlayingUpTheStereotype: A character pretends to have the stereotypical traits of their race.
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->''"Everyone's a little bit racist sometimes.\\
Doesn't mean we go around committing hate crimes.\\
Look around and you will find\\
No one's really color blind.\\
Maybe it's a fact we all should face:\\
Everyone makes judgments based on race."''
-->-- ''Theatre/AvenueQ''
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* InterracialAdoptionStruggles
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* UglySlavicWomen: The opposite counterpart to the above stereotype.

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* UglySlavicWomen: The opposite counterpart to the above stereotype.Eastern European women are portrayed as ugly.
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* SizableSemiticNose: Jews, Arabs, and other Semitic peoples are depicted with large, hooked noses.
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* MixedAncestryIsAttractive: Being mixed race is considered exotic/attractive InUniverse.
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* AngryBlackMan

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* AngryBlackManAngryBlackManStereotype
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Fixing descriptions.


* {{Brownface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with "brown people" (anyone with a brownish skin tone that's not black or white).

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* {{Brownface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with A racist performance involving non-brown people wearing makeup to look like "brown people" (anyone with a brownish skin tone that's not black or white).



* {{Yellowface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" or "brown people" with "East Asian people".

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* {{Yellowface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" or "brown people" with "East A racist performance involving people who are no East Asian people".wearing makeup to look like they are.

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** AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu

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** * AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu



** {{Brownface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with "brown people" (anyone with a brownish skin tone that's not black or white).
** {{Yellowface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" or "brown people" with "East Asian people".



* {{Brownface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" with "brown people" (anyone with a brownish skin tone that's not black or white).



* DivineRaceLift: A deity is depicted with a different ethnicity than they are usually depicted as.



* HumansAreWhite: Most human characters in a sci-fi/fantasy setting are all members of the exact same race or ethnicity, especially the majority group in the region that the work originated from (such as white people in Western countries).



** MistakenForForeigner: Someone is mistakenly assumed to not be a native citizen of their own country, often because they're members of an ethnic minority group full of recent immigrants.
** MistakenNationality: Incorrectly guessing someone's country of origin.

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** * MistakenForForeigner: Someone is mistakenly assumed to not be a native citizen of their own country, often because they're members of an ethnic minority group full of recent immigrants.
** MistakenNationality: Incorrectly guessing someone's country of origin.
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* MistakenNationality: Incorrectly guessing someone's country of origin.



** HumansAreWhite: Most human characters in a sci-fi/fantasy setting are all members of the exact same race or ethnicity, especially the majority group in the region that the work originated from (such as white people in Western countries).



** DivineRaceLift: A deity is depicted with a different ethnicity than they are usually depicted as.



** UglySlavicWomen: The opposite counterpart to the above stereotype.



** SlaveRace


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* SlaveRace


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* UglySlavicWomen: The opposite counterpart to the above stereotype.


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* {{Yellowface}}: The same as above, but replace "black people" or "brown people" with "East Asian people".
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* RacialTransformation: A character's race is changed permanently, or at any rate in a manner more long-term than make-up, using some kind of fantasy or SF mechanism.

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* InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace


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* IntimidatingWhitePresence
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* FarEastAsianTerrorists
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* MistakenEthnicity
* MistakenForForeigner
** MistakenNationality
* MistakenForRacist: A character accidentally says or does something that can be interpreted as racist.

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* MistakenEthnicity
* MistakenForForeigner
MistakenEthnicity: Incorrectly guessing someone's ethnic/racial heritage.
** MistakenNationality
MistakenForForeigner: Someone is mistakenly assumed to not be a native citizen of their own country, often because they're members of an ethnic minority group full of recent immigrants.
** MistakenNationality: Incorrectly guessing someone's country of origin.
* MistakenForRacist: A character accidentally says or does something that can be interpreted (mis)interpreted as racist.being racist.
* MistakenForTerrorist: Most variations of this trope involve someone who is of North African / West Asian / South Asian (or otherwise AmbiguouslyBrown) ethnicity being mistaken for some sort of {{Middle Eastern Terrorist|s}}, regardless of actual racial heritage or ideological beliefs.

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* OutsideInsideSlur


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