QUOTE (Rasumichin @ Feb 7 2011, 02:51 AM)

Night Ones are relatively common in Europe, though.
Depending on the campaign setting, i'd let it fly, although there's metavariants that are much more common targets for prejudice (for example, all dwarven variants, giants and hobgoblins are all mentioned to face serious issues in this regard).
I mean, seriously, RC lists "lawyers" as an example of a rare target group. If it gets as specific as this, one can also argue that his character doesn't get along with elven metavariants.
Trolls only make up 1% of the population on average. In opposition to elves, who are the most common metatype after humans and orks.
In many regions, certain ork metavariants are up to 10 times as common as trolls (ogres in Europe, hobgoblins in the middle east).
SR4 has little to do with the "80% humans, 5% of everything else" approach of SR2.
Point being that trolls are a fairly rare subsection of the population already, like awakened are, and technomancers. A shadowrunner might by virtue of profession run into them more often, but this still doesn't justify a 'common' group in my book. Night ones are not relatively common in Europe, they occur in Europe, mostly in Scandinavia, the vast majority of elves will still be normal elves though. If in any country outside of Scandinavia (Germany and Russia excepted), night ones make up more than 5% of the total elven population, I'd be surprised. And 5% of a population that makes up 30ish% of the main population is still 1,5%. Rare? Yes sir.
It's not about a level of specificity though. If you want to play a character prejudiced against omnisexual Trolls (poor Bubba, he's just misunderstood), by all means go ahead, but if I don't see it coming up in play with much of any probability, and if it does, you're also just slightly biased, so that net effect is pretty much 0, I'm not going to allow you any BP for it. And if you don't see it as a way of getting some BP without consequences, I don't know what you're thinking.
Lawyers, as a rare group, I'd definitely allow. There might not be many, but a shadowrunner has a definite increased chance to run into one at some point and have to deal with him.