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Dirty Foreigner
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One of the easiest ways to look down upon another person is to make fun of their lack of personal hygiene. This extends sometimes to entire nationalities. Thus, the Dirty Foreigner trope was born. This trope is strange in that it, in particular, unlike the Funny Foreigner, is a Discredited Trope at best, possibly verging on a Dead Horse Trope, 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. The French are a particularly common target for this trope, though it is by no means exclusive to them. In science fiction, this may be extended to aliens. In fantasy and fairy tales with talking animals, animals may say this about a certain species. See also The Pig-Pen, Stink Snub. Filthiness Tropes. |
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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. | |
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A Brighter Dark: Hoshidans tend to have this opinion of anyone who isn't Hoshidan. Nohrians especially, but also non-humans and tribals. | |
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Historical downtimers are treated this way in Time Scout. | |
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In Spitting Image, the I Never Met A Nice South African song refers to the old slur the British threw at the Boers - that the Dutch-descended half of the nation are either wholly innocent of what soap is, or else actively shun it, leading to an unpleasant physical smell. note The song dates from the middle of The '80s, when apartheid was still a going concern, lots of protesting black people had been shot dead at Soweto, and white minority rule in SA was giving every South African a bad reputation regardless of whether they were racist or not. Things have changed since. | |
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In Jingo, this is discussed and averted; Colon says that a sign of the good Morporkian way of life is "washing regular", and Nobby (who probably doesn't wash regular himself) mentions that he's never seen Mr. Goriff and his family with dirty clothes. | |
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This appears in various iterations of Star Trek as a stereotype of Klingons; Starfleet crewmen make racist jokes about Klingon hygiene and body odor in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Q makes similar barbs about Worf in The Next Generation, even in Worf's presence (he's a god, what could Worf do to him?). | |
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The very first line in The Drew Carey Show was an Orphaned Punchline about this. | |
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Borat portrays Kazakhs this way. | |
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This American Life: in a bit by David Sedaris that takes place while he's living in France, on the French subway he overhears an ugly American Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist 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. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Anya punishes a philanderer. When his girlfriend wishes he was a frog, Anya makes him French. Now he smells. | |
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