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This trope comes into dramatic composition when an soul is cast for a portrayal in a historical environment who would appear to be of the wrong ethnicity to portray specified a role, usually because the population of any given vicinity tended to be kinda ethnically homogenous at that period of time period. This is especially plausible to happen once the writers don't acknowledge the actual ethnicities available, don't care some ethnicity, impoverishment to add diversity, soul reckon problems, or a large indefinite quantity other reasons. Depending on the time and place, this can in reality be realistic.