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Outside/Inside Slur
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In case you're wondering, this trope isn't about acquiring N-Word Privileges just to be able to insult another group from "within". The "inside" and "outside" here refer to individuals, not groups. Alice tells Bob: "Outside you're X, but inside, you're (really) Y!" This means that Bob belongs to, claims to belong to, or at least seems to belong to group X but behaves like someone from group Y. This usually implies that Y is evil, intolerant of X, or at best mutually exclusive with X. Ultimately, this is a way to call Bob a phony. Very often, especially when it's about race, this involves a comparison to a food item which is one color on the outside and another inside. Someone who's "Asian outside, white inside" might be called a banana (yellow skin, white inside), for example. Often used to accuse someone of being a Category Traitor. Like N-Word Privileges, these can be applied teasingly between friends or toward oneself, but they're heavily context-dependent and can cause great offense if misused. Compare The Whitest Black Guy, to whom such slurs are often addressed (see the Real Life tab for examples). Contrast Pretty Fly for a White Guy in which a member of group X considers himself to be a part of group Y though members of Y disagree. |
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In Dragon Age, the nomadic Dalish elves call the elves who live among humans "flat ears" (denying their Pointy Ears and hence their elvishness) as they believe them to be little different from their human overlords. | |
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Through Black Spruce: Annie calls Jesse a fake Indian, as he's living in the city with white friends in a modern, urban style, but she apologizes for it later (he doesn't care). | |
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When The Baby-Sitters Club went to summer camp, one of Jessi's cabin mates referred to her and Mallory as "Oreos." It may not have been meant as a racial slur (although Jessi took it as one), given that the insult was clearly supposed to include Mallory, who isn't black. | |
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In Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold (who is East Asian) talks about being referred to as a twinkie — yellow outside, white inside. | |
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A close variant in Rusty and Co.: Rue Lily, a snotty elf, calls Roxanne (also an elf, but who was reared by humans) a "pilinyarro". Roxy describes it as elvish slang for porcupine, meaning "pointy on top, but round underneath", while gesturing at her own Pointy Ears. | |
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In an episode of Scrubs, Dr. Cox derides Turk for being whiter than he is. | |
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King of the Hill: In "Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana?", Kahn's idol, Ted Wassonasong, calls him a "banana" (yellow skin, white inside), after which Kahn tries to get in touch with his Laotian culture. | |
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In one scene in Crazy Rich Asians, Peik Lin remarks to Rachel that the old-money Singaporean families see the latter as "a banana, yellow on the outside, white on the inside." | |
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A The Hero of Three Faces strip based on Angel had Gunn in his season 5 lawyer suit worrying that he was turning into an Oreo. | |
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In Prime Suspect 2, the black British police officer Bob Oswalde is also called a coconut. | |
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Black Lagoon: Shenhua calls Chinese American Revy a Twinkie (yellow on the outside, white on the inside). | |
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Look to the West: The Empire of North America's Liberal Party is symbolised by yellow, while the Mentian Party (i.e. socialists) use purple. In the 1920s, the cobrist faction (left wing) of the Liberals is known as the "Overripe Aubergines", because they look yellow, but they're really purple. In the following decade, the Supremacist party (right-wing radicals symbolised by a buff colour) is largely taken over by right-wing establishment types who see the Patriots (sybolised by blue) as a lost cause. Traditional Supremacists call them "New York firemen", probably because that fire department wears buff protective coats over blue uniforms. |
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In the Star Trek novel Spock's World, when a Vulcan points out that Spock is halfblood, Kirk spends a good few words pointing out his real meaning — namely, that because Spock is a halfblood, he's "a fake Earth person", not a Vulcan. | |
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On Vida, the protagonists, Mexican-American sisters Emma and Lyn Hernandez are frequently referred to as "coconuts" or "White-inas" because they previously left their neighbourhood, and later return to make major changes to their late mother's bar. Played for Drama, as the show addresses the many issues in the US Latino community, including racism, as is shown with the aforementioned slurs. Season 3 trailers show residents painting actual coconuts over Emma and Lyn's painting on the community mural to further protest the changes they made to Visa's bar. | |
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The Cleveland Show: Freight Train complains that cops won't help black people, in reference to two cops who are both black. In another episode, Cleveland calls Federline a "lame inside-out Oreo." |
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"Chickenhawk" for a War Hawk who avoids military service. | |
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The Boondocks: Uncle Ruckus praises Tom DuBois for being an outstanding Oreo: black on the outside, white on the inside. | |
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Top 10 has a robot deriding Joe Pi as being too human by calling him "Spambo", both referencing the real world "Sambo" -slur, and signalling "metal on the outside, meat on the inside". | |
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In Men at Arms, Big Fido, the A Nazi by Any Other Name leader of the Dog Guild confronts Gaspode and Angua and says "There's always an enemy. Everywhere. They look like dogs but, inside, they're not dogs." Of course, in Angua's case, this is literally true. | |
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Mystery Road: Jay gets insulted more than once for being a "coconut" (i.e. not really Aboriginal, but white on the inside) and related insults because he's a police detective who's accused of locking up his own people (most suspects in fact are white). | |
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On All in the Family Lionel Jefferson calls a real estate agent an "Oreo cookie", explaining to the Bunkers that it means "black on the outside, white on the inside." The insult backfires with Archie, who says, "Yeah, he seemed like a decent guy to me, too." | |
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Gentefied: The Morales family calls their Latino landlord Roberto a "coconut" and a "potato"note brown on the outside, white on the inside, as they consider him a Sell-Out to rich, non-Latinx landlords. | |
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RINO (Republican In Name Only) and DINO (Democrat In Name Only), which also cross into No True Scotsman. | |
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Variation in Wild Wild West. Here, Loveless is using "yellow" to refer, not to race, but cowardice. | |
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On Veronica Mars, Hispanic students who excel in school are called Coconuts: brown outside, white inside. | |
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In Double Happiness, the (Chinese-American) protagonist complains that he's "such a twinkie" (yellow on the outside, white on the inside). | |
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In the UWF, Iceman King Parsons once called Savannah Jack an "Oreo" for teaming with "Gentleman" Chris Adams. (Adams had been Parsons' tag team partner until Parsons had a Face–Heel Turn.) | |
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In the Drawn Together episode where Ling-Ling gets his "Asian eyes" fixed, Godzilla shows up and accuses him of being a "Twinkie": yellow on the outside, white on the inside. | |
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In Seveneves, Ivy Xiao, who commands the International Space Station, succinctly sums up her PR problem: | |
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