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[quote=Anonymous]My thought is there is no self-hating Christian trope because Christians are considered the default in US culture still.  I think it's probably an outgrowth of majority "privilege" to just be a self-hating person and not have it attached to other descriptors.

I guess that the concept you are curious about may link to the age of the Jewish diaspora in America, the long-ago nature of the heavy immigration period, and the connection to tropes such as East Coast neurosis, NYC, and therapy culture.

Also consider the interweaving of Christianity and Judaism through shared European heritage, religious conversion, the history of the Holocaust, etc.

I am a white person from a Christian background with some experience living near and working with peers who are immigrants from India and Buddhist Asian countries.  In general, I find that white peers know very little about the cultural practices and religious practices of people from these countries.  So that's my guess as to why there aren't tropes about self-hating Hindus, etc.  There just aren't enough stereotypes circulating for people to have assimilated this kind of point.  There are of course other stereotypes circulating but just with different topics.

I feel that stereotyping about high-achieving Asian-American students today is highly reminiscent of what was going on re: Jewish students long ago.[/quote]

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