All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX

[GethN7]

Topic change.

Somebody please explain to me why we have this, this, and this as separate tropes.

Especially considering that the first two play to bigoted stereotypes.

Well, while current-day media tries to shy away from these tropes, they are prominent in a lot of older media and media that parodies such tropes.

Dumb Blonde is very commonly lampooned in a lot of 90's and early 2000 media especially, and Asian Airhead is not as common, but is used as a comedic subversion of Asians all being stereotyped as nerdy at times (which can also be bigoted depending on your perspective).

Thing is, as long media has existed, so has the humanity being portrayed in it, and like it or not, various races have been stereotyped both in good, bad, or unusual ways all over the planet at one point or another. Our noting this does not cast approval or disapproval of such, we simply note how and when such a portrayal was used for the purposes of information and scholarship.