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.
Tropes about race and racial behaviors in Western media.
See also Prejudice Tropes, or the analysis page for more detail. Not to be confused with The Big Race. The Five Races are categories of fantasy creatures.
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.
— Avenue Q
Tropes
Categories:
- Affirmative Action Legacy
- Ambiguously Brown
- Ancient Astronauts (if used to imply that the mainly non-white ancient societies most known for their civilizations or monuments lacked the intelligence or ability to do or make those things on their own)
- Badass Native
- Brownface
- Captain Ethnic
- The Chief's Daughter
- Child of Two Worlds
- Chocolate Baby
- Color Me Black
- Culture Equals Costume
- Dashing Hispanic
- Dehumanizing Insult
- Divine Race Lift
- Dub Name Change
- Electric Black Guy
- Equal-Opportunity Evil
- Ethnic Magician
- Ethnic Menial Labor
- Ethnic Scrappy
- Europeans Are Kinky
- Everything Is Racist
- Evil Colonialist — not always but quite often related to race and racism
- Facial Profiling
- Failing a Taxi
- Fake Mixed Race
- Fake Nationality
- Fantastic Racism
- Fauxreigner
- Far-East Asian Terrorists
- Faux Interracial Relationship
- Five-Token Band
- Foreign Culture Fetish
- French Jerk
- Funny Foreigner
- Germanic Depressives
- Germanic Efficiency
- German Russians
- Good Flaws, Bad Flaws
- Half-Breed Discrimination
- Heel–Race Turn
- Heritage Disconnect
- Hollywood Natives
- Hot Gypsy Woman
- Humans Are White
- Identical-Looking Asians
- Interchangeable Asian Cultures
- In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race
- Indian Maiden
- Inscrutable Oriental
- Irishman and a Jew
- Latin Lover
- Latino Is Brown
- Like Goes with Like
- Lost Tribe
- Macekre
- Magical Asian
- Magical Native American
- Magical Negro
- Malcolm Xerox
- Mammy
- Matzo Fever
- Metro Specific Underworld
- Mighty Whitey
- Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow
- Minority Show Ghetto
- Minstrel Shows
- Missing White Woman Syndrome
- Mistaken for Foreigner
- Mistaken for Racist
- Mistaken Nationality
- Mixed Ancestry
- Modern Minstrelsy
- Monochrome Casting
- Mukokuseki
- The Native Rival
- The Natives Are Restless
- No Equal-Opportunity Time Travel
- Norse by Norsewest
- No Woman's Land
- N-Word Privileges
- Once Acceptable Targets
- One Drop Rule
- Operator from India
- Orientalism
- Pass Fail
- People of Hair Color
- Persecution Flip
- Phenotype Stereotype
- Piss-Take Rap
- Positive Discrimination
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy
- Profiling
- Race Fetish
- Race Lift
- Race Name Basis
- Racist Grandma
- Russian Guy Suffers Most
- Salt and Pepper
- Sassy Black Woman
- Scary Black Man
- Scary Minority Suspect
- Sensual Slavs
- Servant Race
- Sexy Scandinavian
- Shiksa Goddess
- Slave Race
- Some of My Best Friends Are X
- Son of an Ape
- Soul Brotha
- Space Jews
- The Stateless
- Spicy Latina
- Starbucks Skin Scale
- Stereotype Flip
- Stereotype Reaction Gag
- Stereotypes of Chinese People
- Stiff Upper Lip
- Suddenly Ethnicity
- Token Minority
- Token Trio
- Tonto Talk
- Uncle Tomfoolery
- Unfortunate Implications
- Where Da White Women At?
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
- White Dude, Black Dude
- White Gangbangers
- White Guilt
- White Male Lead
- White Man's Burden
- The Whitest Black Guy
- Whoopi Epiphany Speech
- Wild Samoan
- Yellowface
- Yellow Peril
- You Are a Credit to Your Race
- You Are What You Hate
- You Have to Have Jews
- You Know I'm Black, Right?
- You Know What They Say About X...
