While the museum is a jumble of rectangular blocks stacked in seemingly haphazard ways, its defining characteristic is the plain white facade.

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Far Cry 3 goes a little bit farther, with a protagonist so deeply boring and broish that his only defining characteristic is being a white dude, and the ending throws in a few twists that manage to one up even Avatar on paternalism.

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Scott looks good in a suit, whereas the office boss in the BBC original, David Brent, had a characteristic slump highlighted by a wrinkled white shirt and a cheap tie.

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The revolt of this class, he thinks, could be the defining characteristic of the election, counting more even than the rise of the (also mostly white, but mostly more affluent) tea-party movement.

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