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Ethnicity in fiction table
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| x Ainu people |
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Horohoro |
Ainu (アイヌ) IPA: [ʔáinu] (also called Ezo in historical texts) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaidō, the Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin. There are most likely over 150,000 Ainu today; however the exact figure is not known as many Ainu hide...
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| x Silvan Elves |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the best known Silvan Elves are the Elves of northern Mirkwood and Lothlórien. In the First Age the Elves of Ossiriand, or Laiquendi, were also referred to as wood-elves.
Silvan Elves (more...
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| x Noldor |
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Fëanor |
In the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Noldor (meaning those with knowledge) were those of the second clan of the Elves, the Tatyar, who came to Aman. According to legend, the clan was founded by Tata, the second Elf to awake at Cuiviénen, his spouse...
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| Finwë | |||
| Finarfin | |||
| Fingolfin | |||
| Turgon | |||
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| x Sindar | Legolas |
In the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, the fictional Sindar (meaning Grey People, singular Sinda, although the latter term was not generally used by Tolkien) are Elves of Telerin descent. They are also known as the Grey Elves. Their language is Sindarin....
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| x Lebanese American |
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Maxwell Klinger |
Lebanese Americans are American citizens of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States as well as Lebanese immigrants to America. The vast majority of them are Christians, in particular Maronites. Lebanese...
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| x African American |
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Bubbles |
African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan...
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| Geraldine | |||
| Avery J. Johnson | |||
| Keith Anderson | |||
| Gravedigger | |||
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| x Indian American |
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Asok |
Indian Americans are Americans who are of Indian ancestry. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with "American Indian".
In North America the term Indian has an ambiguous meaning. Historically, Indian was...
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| Kumar Patel | |||
| Kelly Kapoor | |||
| Lawrence Kutner | |||
| Karamchand Baidwan | |||
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| x Asian American |
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Harry Kim |
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. They include ethnic groups such as Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, Japanese Americans and others whose national origin is from the Asian...
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| Mr Wong | |||
| Gehenna | |||
| George Huang | |||
| Adam Park | |||
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| x Canadian-American |
A Canadian-American is an American of Canadian descent. The term is particularly apt when applied or self-applied to people with strong ties to Canada, such as those who have lived a significant portion of their lives in, or were educated in, Canada...
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| x White |
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Jesse Custer |
White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin. However, rather than a straightforward description of skin color, the term white functions as a color terminology...
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| Biggles | |||
| Jay | |||
| Silent Bob | |||
| Ali G | |||
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| x Jewish |
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Tevye |
A Jew (Hebrew: יְהוּדִי, Yehudi (sg.); יְהוּדִים, Yehudim (pl.); Ladino: ג׳ודיו, Djudio (sg.); ג׳ודיוס, Djudios (pl.); Yiddish: יִיד, Yid (sg.); יִידן, Yidn (pl.)) is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group originating in the...
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| Sam Clay | |||
| x Scottish people |
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William Wallace |
The Scots people (Scots Gaelic: Albannach) are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.
Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Picts, Gaels, Brythons, Bernician Angles and Norsemen, among others.
In modern...
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| Robert the Bruce | |||
| x British Asian |
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Kash Karib |
South Asians in the United Kingdom or British South Asians are British citizens who descended from South Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. Immigration of South Asian people to the United Kingdom began with the arrival of the East India Company to...
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| Chesney Karib | |||
| Meena Karib | |||
| Umi Karib | |||
| x Black British |
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Norma Starkey |
Black British is a term which has had different meanings and uses as a racial and political label. Historically it has been used to refer to any non-white British national. The term was first used at the end of the British Empire, when several major...
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| Martha Jones | |||
| x Vietnamese people |
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Mayko Tran |
The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt or người Kinh) are an ethnic group originating from what is now northern Vietnam and southern China. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population as of the 1999 census,...
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| x Caucasian race |
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William Bush |
The term Caucasian race (also Caucasoid or Europid) has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the indigenous populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. Historically, the...
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| Major Edrington | |||
| Horatio Hornblower | |||
| Robin | |||
| Sherlock Holmes | |||
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| x Black |
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Stephen Franklin |
The term black people usually refers to a racial group of humans with a dark brown skin color, but it has also been used to categorise a number of diverse populations into one common group. Some definitions of the term include only people of...
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| Alfred King | |||
| x Minbari Warrior Caste | Lenonn |
In the fictional Babylon 5 universe, the Warrior Caste is one of three castes in Minbari society. Members of this caste primarily serve as members of the military and protectors of the Minbari. The members of the Warrior Caste are the most...
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| Minbari Assassin | |||
| x Minbari Religious Caste | Delenn | ||
| x Arab |
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Zara |
An Arab (Arabic: عربي, ʿarabi) is a person who identifies as such on ethnic, linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs (العرب al-ʿarab), refers to the ethnocultural group at large.
Though the Arabic language is older, Arabic culture...
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| Talia al Ghul | |||
| Ali Baba | |||
| Ra's al Ghul | |||
| Sinbad the Sailor | |||
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| x Eskimo |
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Eskimos or Esquimaux are indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia), across Alaska (United States) and Canada, and all of Greenland (Denmark).
There are two main groups referred to as...
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| x Māori |
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Jake "the Muss" Heke |
The Māori (commonly pronounced /ˈmɑːɔri/ or /ˈmaʊri/) are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand (Aotearoa). The group probably arrived in south-western Polynesia in several waves at some time before 1300. The Māori settled the islands and...
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| Greystone | |||
| x Italian American |
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Greg Wuliger |
An Italian American (Italian: Italoamericano singular, Italian: Italoamericani plural) is an American of Italian ancestry, and/or may also refer to someone possessing Italian/American dual citizenship. Italian Americans are the fourth largest...
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| Justin Russo | |||
| Max Russo | |||
| Alex Russo | |||
| Al Giardello | |||
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| x Arab American |
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An Arab American is a United States citizen or resident of Arab cultural and linguistic heritage and/or identity whose ancestry traces back to any of various waves of immigrants originating from one or more of the twenty-three countries comprising...
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| x Mexican American |
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Carmen de la Pica Morales |
Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. They account for 9% of the country's population: 28.3 million Americans listed their ancestry as Mexican as of 2006. They form the largest Hispanic group in the United States, and contain the...
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| El Muerto | |||
| Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald | |||
| Relámpago | |||
| x German American |
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Wallenquist Organization |
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are Americans of German descent. They form the largest self-reported ancestry group in the United States, outnumbering the Irish and English. They account for 50 million people, or 17% of the U.S....
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| Michael Scott | |||
| Meg Griffin | |||
| Freddy Krueger | |||
| x Polish American |
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Stanislaus Valchek |
A Polish American (Polish: Polski Amerykanin) is a citizen of the United States of Polish descent. There are an estimated 10 million such Polish Americans, representing about 3% of the population of the United States.
The first Poles in North...
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| Frank Sobotka | |||
| Stanley Kowalski | |||
| Michael Stivic | |||
| Walt Kowalski | |||
| x Irish American |
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Donnatella Moss |
Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánach) are citizens of the United States of Irish ethnicity who trace their ancestry in Ireland. A total of 36,495,800 Americans (more than 12% of total population) reported Irish ancestry in the 2006 American...
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| Jack Donaghy | |||
| Archbishop Gilday | |||
| Nina Cassady | |||
| Dr. Cox | |||
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| x Greek American |
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Rastapopoulos |
Greek Americans (Greek: Ελληνοαμερικανοί, Ellinoamerikani) are American of Greek descent. According to the 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimation, there were 1,380,088 people of Greek ancestry in the United States, while the State Department mentions...
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| Damien Karras | |||
| x Cuban American |
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A Cuban American (Spanish: Cubano americano) is a United States citizen who traces his or her "national origin" to Cuba. Cuban Americans are also considered native born Americans with Cuban parents. Cuban Americans form the third-largest Hispanic...
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| x Scots-Irish American |
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Randal Graves |
Scotch-Irish (the historically common term in North America) or Scots-Irish refers to inhabitants of the United States and, by some, of Canada who are of Ulster Scottish descent. The term may be qualified with American (or Canadian) as in "Scotch...
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| x Swedish American |
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Swedish Americans are Americans of Swedish descent, most often related to the large groups of immigrants from Sweden in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Most Swedish Americans are Lutherans affiliated with the Evangelical...
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| x French American |
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Scarlett O'Hara |
French Americans or Franco-Americans are Americans of French descent. About 11.8 million U.S. residents are of French descent, and about 1.6 million speak French at home. An additional 450,000 U.S. residents speak a French-based creole language,...
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| x Scottish American |
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Michael Scott |
Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Scottish: Ameireaganaich Albannach) are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in Scotland. Scottish Americans are closely related to Scotch-Irish Americans, descendants of Ulster Scots, and...
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| Indiana Jones | |||
| Henry Jones, Sr. | |||
| Mutt Williams | |||
| x Dutch-American |
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Henry |
A Dutch American is an American of Dutch descent.
In 1613, the first Dutch settlers arrived and founded a number of villages and a town called New Amsterdam on the East Coast, which would become the future world metropolis of New York. According to...
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| Rip Van Winkle | |||
| Milhouse Van Houten | |||
| x Dominican American |
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A Dominican American (also Dominican-York) is any American who has origins in the Dominican Republic. (Not to be mistaken for Dominicans from the Commonwealth of Dominica).
Immigration records of Dominicans in the United States date from the late...
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| x Russian American |
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Moose Mason |
Russian Americans are Americans whose ancestors were born in Russia. Non-ethnic Russians in this group could be Jews, Ukrainians, Armenians, or any other ethnicity who were born and grew up in Russia.
The Russian American population is reported to...
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| x English American |
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Michael Scott |
English Americans (occasionally known as Anglo-Americans, although this may have a wider cultural meaning) are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. According to 2000 U.S census data, Americans claiming...
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| x Bengali people |
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The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal (now divided between Bangladesh and India) in South Asia. They speak the Bengali (বাংলা Bangla), a language of the eastern Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European...
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| x Latvian-American |
Latvian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Latvian ancestry. According to the 2000 US census, there are 87,564 Americans of full or partial Latvian descent. The states with the largest Latvian-American populations are:
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| x English |
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Sherlock Holmes |
The English (from Old English: Englisc) are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn.
The largest single...
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| Adele Cecil | |||
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| Jack Aubrey | |||
| Captain Harte | |||
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| x Hispanic |
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Matt Santos |
Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico) is a term that historically denoted a relationship to the ancient Hispania (geographically coinciding with the Iberian Peninsula). During the modern era, it took on a more limited meaning, relating to the...
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| x Russian |
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Vadim Maslennikov |
The Russian people (Русские, Russkiye) are a worldwide diaspora from the East Slavic ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.
The English term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their...
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| L | |||
| Sergei Dragunov | |||
| Sergei Vladimir | |||
| Billy Boss | |||
| x Japanese |
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L |
The Japanese people (日本人, Nihonjin, Nipponjin) are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry...
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| Misato Katsuragi | |||
| Tricia Takanawa | |||
| x European American |
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Norman Bates |
A European American (Euro-American) is a person who resides in the United States and is either from Europe or is the descendant of European immigrants or founding colonists. The German (25.5%), Irish (18.1%) and English Americans (14.3%) alone are...
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| Shrieky | |||
| Eddie Heartson | |||
| Liey Heartson | |||
| Auntie Freeze | |||
| x Hamish | Suranoviremblastiran | ||
| x Gaian | Suranoviremblastiran |
Beings of the fictional planet Gaia, in the Foundation universe.
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| Blissenobiarella | |||
| x Irish people |
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James Dillon |
The Irish people (Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies),...
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| Patrick Wade | |||
| x Ancient Greek | Kalos | ||
| Musides | |||
| x Italian |
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Angelo Ricci |
Italians can refer to either:
They are one of the Latin European peoples.
As a people, there are 56.2 million Italian citizens in Italy, about 350,000 Italian Swiss in Switzerland, and about 28,000 in San Marino. There is also a large but undefined,...
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| Fortunato Carneglia | |||
| Don Abbondio | |||
| Lorenzo Tramaglino | |||
| Lucia Mondella | |||
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| x Mexican | Juan Romero | ||
| x Bear |
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Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a...
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| x Melnibonéan | Elric of Melniboné | ||
| Yyrkoon | |||
| x Gauls |
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Asterix |
The Gauls were a Continental Celtic people of classical antiquity, the inhabitants of Gaul (roughly corresponding to modern France, Belgium, Switzerland and northern Italy), and speakers of the Gaulish language.
Archaeologically, they were the...
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| x Genetic Superman | Khan Noonien Singh | ||
| x Tlingit |
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Cookie Monster |
The Tlingit (pronounced /ˈklɪŋkɪt/ or /ˈtlɪŋɡɪt/ in English; sometimes spelled Tlinkit) are an Indigenous people of northwestern America. Their name for themselves is Lingít "people" (pronounced [ɬɪŋkɪt]). The Russian name Koloshi (from an Aleut...
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| x White American |
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Horatio Caine |
White American (often used interchangeably with "Caucasian American" and within the United States simply "white") is an umbrella term officially employed by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget and other U.S. government...
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| Charlotte York | |||
| x Icy Blue | |||
| x European American | |||
| x Monster | Beastly | ||
