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Where a character displays a complete lack of understanding about culture, behaviour, social norms or other things that they should, by their own backstory and the world they live in, know. They don't have a plausible Fish Out of Water excuse like Time Travel into the past or future, or just arriving on a different planet, or even another country -- they should know this stuff already. However, due to the Rule of Perception, if the audiences don't know about it, someone has to explain it. May be used when Deliberate Values Dissonance would be far more plausible.

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  • Culture Blind
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  • Where a character displays a complete lack of understanding about culture, behaviour, social norms or other things that they should, by their own backstory and the world they live in, know. They don't have a plausible Fish Out of Water excuse like Time Travel into the past or future, or just arriving on a different planet, or even another country -- they should know this stuff already. However, due to the Rule of Perception, if the audiences don't know about it, someone has to explain it. May be used when Deliberate Values Dissonance would be far more plausible.
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  • Where a character displays a complete lack of understanding about culture, behaviour, social norms or other things that they should, by their own backstory and the world they live in, know. They don't have a plausible Fish Out of Water excuse like Time Travel into the past or future, or just arriving on a different planet, or even another country -- they should know this stuff already. However, due to the Rule of Perception, if the audiences don't know about it, someone has to explain it. What's particularly odd about these characters is that they tend to never really absorb much culture even in-show. It's almost a form of Negative Continuity to keep them stuck there. Like Ping-Pong Naivete, except instead of back-and-forth, it's stalled completely except when the character's in front of a camera. The alternative to As You Know; since it's bizarrely "As You Don't Know." See also Genre Blind, which is similar to Culture Blind except that it extends to a character's entire reality. May be used when Deliberate Values Dissonance would be far more plausible. Of course, people like this do exist in Real Life, although probably not to the extreme degree that they do in fiction; some people, for whatever reason, just don't get out much, listen to the radio, or watch the news. In addition, people with Autism or Aspergers Syndrome may not understand acceptable forms of behaviour due to the very nature of their conditions. Examples of Culture Blind include:
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