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Kind of a passive variant of [[Fantastic Racism]]. A character who does this because he's pretending to be what he constantly proclaims he is (such as a gnome trying to blend in as a dwarf) is acting under the [[Most Definitely Not a Villain]] clausule.
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== Multiple Media ==
* Scottish characters in many sources seem to have a strange need to use phrases such as "what the haggis" which are hard to picture anyone ever uttering unironically.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Gimli in the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* In ''[[
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** Klingons are obsessed with their Klingon-ness. Worf in ''The Next Generation'' is exceptionally bad, even annoying his fellow Klingons with his inability to speak like a normal person and irritation over not following every old tradition to the letter. Hinted to be justified in that he was raised by humans and therefore has an idealized vision of his race and a need to be more Klingon than Kahless.▼
** Cardassians also make it a habit to remind everyone of the superiority of their race and explain that everyone just misunderstands their superior culture. But then, [[Recycled in Space|Space]] [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Nazi]] is [[Planet of Hats|their hat]].▼
** You could make a drinking game out of how often Spock (the [[Proud Scholar Race Guy]]) says, "I am a Vulcan." Once again, this could be over-compensation at work - Spock is only ''half''-Vulcan, and the few full-blooded Vulcans we meet in TOS stray surprisingly far from his ideals, and he acts even more stereotypically Vulcan when his father is around.▼
▲* Played with on the [[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]:
** Corporal Carrot does this, as a 6-foot-tall human who was raised by dwarves and therefore still identifies as one.
** And then there's Nobby Nobbs. He has to carry a card around certifying that Lord Vetinari, having examined all available evidence including testimony from the ''midwife herself'' believes that the balance of probability leans ''slightly'' towards him being human.
** Lance-Constable Cuddy<ref>Who is unquestionably a dwarf, just in case you're not keeping up</ref> of ''[[
* Klingons are like this in the ''[[Star Trek Novel Verse]]''. In the ''[[Star Trek: Klingon Empire]]'' series in particular, a great many characters are somewhat obsessed with "being Klingon", and make a point of it routinely. It's relatively justified, in that Klingon society has recently undergone tremendous upheaval and is now trying to reaffirm a sense of what being Klingon means. Characters evaluate their own behaviour, and that of their fellows, against the expected conduct of the ideal Klingon. This is particularly true of Toq (who grew up ignorant of his heritage and now embraces it enthusiastically – perhaps a little too enthusiastically), and Klag (who takes his obligations to the [[Knights Templar|''Order of the Bat'leth'']] extremely seriously).
* In ''[[The Secret of Platform 13]],'' one character is a water nymph who repeatedly notes that she's not a mermaid, pointing out her feet. It's [[Lampshaded]] at one point that nobody knows why being mistaken for a mermaid would upset her so much (especially since nobody actually does it).
* While not especially smug about it, the thranx from the [[Humanx Commonwealth]] series constantly make mention of their insectoid traits, either commenting on the physiological differences between themselves and humans or voicing perplexity at how humans cope without insect-like bodies (too few limbs, skin not hard enough, etc).
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* ''[[
▲** Klingons are obsessed with their Klingon-ness. Worf in ''The Next Generation'' is exceptionally bad, even annoying his fellow Klingons with his inability to speak like a normal person and irritation over not following every old tradition to the letter. Hinted to be justified in that he was raised by humans and therefore has an idealized vision of his race and a need to be more Klingon than Kahless.
▲** Cardassians also make it a habit to remind everyone of the superiority of their race and explain that everyone just misunderstands their superior culture. But then, [[Recycled in Space|Space]] [[A Nazi
▲** You could make a drinking game out of how often Spock (the [[Proud Scholar Race Guy]]) says, "I am a Vulcan." Once again, this could be over-compensation at work - Spock is only ''half''-Vulcan, and the few full-blooded Vulcans we meet in TOS stray surprisingly far from his ideals, and he acts even more stereotypically Vulcan when his father is around.
== Machinima ==
* Simon from [[Yogscast Minecraft Series|The Yogscast]] frequently reminds the audience that he is a dwarf.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'': "I am KROGAN!"
== Web Comics ==
* In the "Federation" arc of [[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]], Groonch the G'norch makes a point of emphasizing his warrior-race pride (his hat, given by Captain Pidorq, is "token noble savage")--- only to have it brutally subverted when it's pointed out that his "race" has dozens of languages and hundreds of cultures, and "noble warrior" isn't even in the top ten....▼
== Real Life ==
* Many comedians, including Jay Mohr, point out that their Jewish friends seem to be unable to get through a conversation without referencing the fact that they're Jewish.
* Comedians whose schtick revolves around some aspect of their identity, be it female, gay, Latino, redneck and so forth, must inevitably talk about this aspect of their identity quite a lot.
▲* In the "Federation" arc of [[Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger]], Groonch the G'norch makes a point of emphasizing his warrior-race pride (his hat, given by Captain Pidorq, is "token noble savage")--- only to have it brutally subverted when it's pointed out that his "race" has dozens of languages and hundreds of cultures, and "noble warrior" isn't even in the top ten....
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