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‘What Does Hollywood Get Wrong About Your Home Country?’: 35 People Expose Lazy Writing Stereotypes
We’ve all heard about unrealistic Hollywood beauty standards, impossible-to-attain expectations spilled by the actors, and unrealistic film portrayals that sell fiction for the price of reality.
When you think of it, Hollywood is fueled by cinematic stereotypes that often include race, gender, and social status. Think of Asian characters shown as nerdy, super rich people played by almost exclusively white older men, and women characters used as a pillar for main male characters to grow. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Speaking of the other side of Hollywood's pathological deficiency in accuracy, we see many bold stereotypes about life and people of other countries. Like, that Irish people constantly drink beer or that Italy is one huge vineyard. And you may guess how annoying it is for people who actually come from there. So when someone asked “What does Hollywood get wrong about your home country?” people across the world had a whole lot to say, so you'd better watch out, Hollywood, and take notes.
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#1
That the Americans are always the heroes in an alien invasion. We can't even handle putting a cloth on our faces during a pandemic how tf are we supposed to handle aliens.
Coleonema 4 years ago (edited)
Also, if aliens declare war on the whole planet, they aren't just gonna attack one country
Daria B 4 years ago (edited)
Americans the heroes in alien invasions?! Pffff.... Please! Everyone knows it's huge ass robots from Japan that will save the Earth! Or destroy it. Depends. ♡
CultOfBambi 4 years ago
Attack the Block (UK) and District 9 (South Africa) are two great examples of films where alien invasions are focused in countries other than the US. Both are awesome.
Carpeton 4 years ago
No rule without exception. Thanks for indicating them
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Julie C Rose 4 years ago
Meanwhile my Kiwi ass is like “bet Jacinda hopes the alien invasion will be in the next election year” (she’s excellent at handling stuff like Christchurch and covid but noticeably suckier at the day to day stuff).
David Muench 4 years ago
And I wouldn't think that laptops are magically compatible with alien technology.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Not just that. For some reason the aliens always decide to invade Earth in the US. Which is actually fine by me. Less aliens where I live!
Mary Veltri 4 years ago
Or one side of the government would say the aliens were fake news put out by the other side of the government. Because science means nothing
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
To be fair, we Americans do have the most alien sightings and abductions. Mostly in the southern and/or western portions of the country.
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#2
Americans are Not actually the voice of reason during a global crisis
surprised pikachu 4 years ago
Hey, before you insult someone's country, how about go there first?
#3
That all us Irish people are alcoholics. I am actually having a beer at the moment but that's just coincidence. I actually know a guy that doesn't drink, but he is a bit of a weirdo. Bloody Dave
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Nor do we speak in high pitched sing song accents, say "faith and begorra", or Top of the mornin' to ya".
surprised pikachu 4 years ago
"we don't say top of the mornin to ya" jacksepticeye would beg to differ
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Natalie Bohrteller 4 years ago
Are you coincidentally listening to jigs and reels too while having your beer? 😂
Ludwig Michiel 4 years ago
This reminds me of the bus tour me and my wife made around Ireland and how the driver introduced himself the first day: "Hi, I'm Ron and I'm an alcoholic." 😄
Billy Maguire 4 years ago
I'm Irish. Actually, many of us ARE alcoholics and drink constantly. I haven't had a drink for over 19 years, but there certainly are those who consider me a weirdo - but my name's NOT Dave.
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
This is as funny as "f*****g Chucky." Bloody Dave! My new saying.
#4
If it’s summer in the US, then it’s summer in Russia. I’m not a stickler for truth in movies, but dammit, if you’re showing a sunny summer day in a green-as-can-be Central Park in New York, then there can’t be a blizzard over Red Square in Moscow. Come on people... this is like pre-school level science.
F. S. Leinad 4 years ago
I'm homeschooled, and I don't see how anyone could not know this.
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Mark Schilling 4 years ago
If the earth is flat then Australia doesn't exist.
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Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
you'd think basic education would be available for use everywhere eh?
Parmeisan 4 years ago
I think they might be referring to those montages in disaster movies where the earth starts shaking, or the aliens come down, or the sun winks out, or whatever, and then we see a 5-10 second shot of a dozen places reporting on the event.
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Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
I recommend you to watch Rasputin (1996). A great film with Alan Rickman. But at the end you see the execution of the Russian tsarist family, which took place in JULY 1918. And there is snow in the film. COME ON!!!
#5
American: Our high school students aren't in their mid to late twenties.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
That's because there are laws and restrictions when you hire underage people! it's easier to hire adults
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Genuinely, growing up, I thought that Americans went to school until at least their mid-twenties. Other stuff is different to our education system, so I just accepted it.
Broken Angel 4 years ago
okay no but SAME. I thought they stayed in primary school at least until they were sixteen, then went to high school when they were twenty.
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Monday 4 years ago
This one makes sense though, fewer legalities you have to worry about when you're casting adults instead of minors.
స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 4 years ago
It's interesting that they always forget to show the metal detectors at the entrance to the schools too... something which is completely foreign to all other countries (unless I'm missing something).
white_shadow 4 years ago
SaME fOr MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!! THE GIRLS DON'T ALWAYS WEAR MAKEUP, AND THEY DON'T ALWAYS HAVE A BOYFRIEND. THEY AREN'T HIGH SCHOOLERS EITHER, NEITHER DOES THEIR BODY LOOK LIKE IT. SAME FOR THE GUYS; NO GUYS HAS A SIX-PACK AND BIG ARMS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND MOST OF THE TIME HIGH SCHOOL EITHER.
Melia Janssen 4 years ago (edited)
There seems to be a recent trend arguing about the ages of the actors and actresses playing teenage roles and there is one simple reason why legal adults are preferred over underaged actors i.e. they don’t need legal consent to work and they can work as much as they want whereas underaged actors can only work a certain no. of hours and they HAVE TO be accompanied by a supervising adult. The studios have to sometimes pay for the adult guardian to be there and he/she is allowed to intervene on behalf of the underaged actor/ actress if they feel that the scenes aren’t suitable for the (underaged) actor/ actress to perform. And they could take somebody is just over the legal age or they could take somebody who is right for the role and more often than not, those 2 things aren't the same thing.
Anita Gaffney 4 years ago
Hilarious!....I remember watching the film "Easy A" and one of the best friends looks like she's in her mid-thirties. It's based in an American highschool btw.
#6
Not every Russian is a gangster, an alcoholic, a sex worker, or a Babushka. MOST are but not everyone.
Random Panda 4 years ago
This applies to all Eastern Europeans, really. Most of us are normal people with normal jobs and the representation we get in American movies is so annoying.
StormWolf 4 years ago
Definitely! I'm South African born and now a British citizen. Both these cultures can only be bad guys/thugs according to Hollywood...🙄
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Also, Eastern Europe is not all horror movie tropes, gray skies, and dark forests. The sun shines in Eastern Europe. And there's open areas. And cities. And people wearing clothing that wasn't made in 1940.
Vorknkx 4 years ago
Also - being East/Southeast European does NOT mean you are perfectly fluent in Russian.
Wanderlust 4 years ago
Hollywood even created an image of how European Asian should look like.. I'm Russian but not a freaking Victoria secret model Russian
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Biljana Malesevic 4 years ago
"Most are?" No, they are not. People everywhere are just people. Stop generalization.
#7
That my world changes to sepia once I enter my country
JessG 4 years ago
(3) The yellow can give off a feeling of uneasiness or show something different than what you are used to see. When you look outside, hopefully, you don't see everything in yellow, so the forced yellow tint can give you(the audience) a sense of uneasiness since it's not what they are used to seeing. Yellow, like the color of sand and sun and -well you get the point, give off the feeling of heat and humidity. Since places like India and Mexico are hot places, they give a bit of yellow. Really, it all depends on what the show is trying to convey.
Mohammad Azhaan 4 years ago (edited)
Who told you India is hot? Lady, India has such a frigging varied climate they teach us for four long years about it and we still get it wrong. All in all, though, the country has quite a mild climate. I mean it is getting a bit extreme nowadays because of global warming but it's happening everywhere. We have far less heat than southern America and far less cold than the northern part. I realize I went on a rant but am feeling too lazy to delete it and too (something, i ain't that familiar with this emotion) not to post it. But yeah, sorry for the rant and rudeness (if present, like I said too lazy to read it again).
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(2) Yellow became synonymous with analog and the colour of the “past”… flashbacks, memories, slavery days and open fields… anything that does not feel part of the newer city landscape. Its not very different from how we auditorily associate an old song with tinny voice and vinyl scratches… or acoustic guitar to country music. These associations are very powerful, and more importantly highly resistant to change. They communicate a lot of information within a very short span of time.
#8
My country is A COUNTRY in Africa
StormWolf 4 years ago
When I moved to the UK from Cape Town, I stg I was asked if we have indoor toilets and lions and elephants roaming the streets. To make it worse, this was in 1998 ffs lol
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Uchman 4 years ago (edited)
Once got talking to a freelance video/photo journalist who was based in Africa for most of his career in the 80's & 90's. He explained that images showing modern cities and people don't sell as the various agencies deem it not "African enough". This is how the stereotypes keep being perpetuated 🙄
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
I could name 10 countries but not their capitals :(
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#9
No one says, "Oh what a jolly good job mate, splendid show, absolutely spiffing." It's more like, "Oh you're a funny little w*nker aren't you?"
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
# Profanity # Actually, it's more like "Why the c**ting f**k did you do that captain c**t monkey?!"
Remi Flynne 4 years ago
You can't use a time travelling victorian MP as a good example. He needs to be sent back.
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Mark Schilling 4 years ago
Americans understand that the average Brit doesn't speak posh. It's just that British media perpetuates the upperclass stereotype in shows like Downton Abbey. Plus, that type of English accent is the easiest to emulate. Far different than Scouse or Geordie or Welsh or Scots.
Uchman 4 years ago
Downton Abbey is about posh people,si they're in character. There's a hell of a lot of British shows where people speak normally
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grey galah 4 years ago
I've travelled in the UK. There's a least a dozen countries in those islands
#10
Not every window have a view on the Eifel Tower. And it's painfully obvious when they go to shoot a vineyard scene in California to pass for French countryside.
Saint Thomas 4 years ago (edited)
Appartments in Paris are also f**** expensive. A flat with such a view to the eiffel tower would never be in such a shabby state, and (EDIT, thx Glowworm2, not Remy but) Linguini would never never never ever be able to afford the rent (let alone buy it).
glowworm2 4 years ago (edited)
Keep in mind, Remy is the rat. Linguini is the human.
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Sheena Catalina 4 years ago
By the choice of the picture, I assume that in Paris the view is more improbable than the talking and cooking rat?
Dynein 4 years ago
If you took away the talking rat, you'd take away the story. But you could remove the obligatory Eiffel tower with no problem. People are okay with improbable things in a story - it allows for more and more interesting stories - but they tend to get annoyed with lazy storytelling and unnecessary inaccurate details, such as a view of the Eiffel tower from a cheap shabby room.
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Grace Skerp 4 years ago
And every window in San Francisco has a view of the Golden Gate Bridge.
#11
In italy, there isn't mafia in every city. Only 80% of them.
Pervinca 4 years ago
Ahahahahah. To be honest Italian mafia hides in a lot of places all over the world, the only difference is that in South Italy they have a more gangster related behaviour, their presence is more showy. While in other part of Italy or of the world they are much less gangster and much more business men.
jevais 4 years ago
There are all sorts of mafias from every country worldwide. There's no place on earth that doesn't have some sort of mafia. Governments are sometimes ran like mafias
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Nubis Knight 4 years ago
The other 20 % of Mafia is selling pizza in my German hometown I think (only logic reason the pizza can be this cheap is someone is laundering money). %-)
#12
Im australian and i swear every movie I see where a person from america or anywhere else travels to australia they land in sydney or melbourne and its just a few hours drive to “the outback”.
It would take you a day and a half to drive from those places to the outback and that's only if you don't stop to eat/get petrol
Friday 4 years ago
This is debatable. If you are talking about outback in NT, sure. But Sydney to somewhere like Broken Hill could be done in half a day.
Jo Morris 4 years ago
Google Maps show it's 12 hours 25 minutes to drive from Sydney Airport to Broken Hill, so could not be done in half a day.
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Downunderdude 4 years ago
She's still a big country, though. It's always amazed me that Brisbane to Cairns (1042 mi, 1678 km)is nearly twice as far as Sydney to Brisbane (574 mi, 924 km)
Andy Clara 4 years ago
When I visited America a few years ago, someone asked me if we had cities in Australia, or if it was all desert.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
Americans faking Australian accents is so cringe!
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James Mills 4 years ago
That everyone says "throw another shrimp on the Barbie".. or we all drink Fosters. I mean we do ride Kangaroos to work and live with at least 10 spiders in our home but that's just normal day to day stuff.
Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
You can land in Perth airport, jump in a hire car and be in the outback within an hour or two
#13
We don’t all live in London, or talk like cockneys or royalty
N G 4 years ago
Theres a whole country outside London that almost never gets a look in! And theres the rest of the UK - Scotland at least is recognised as separate, but Wales is just England-lite (unless you watch Torchwood and then you're aware of Cardiff)
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
I loved living in London. But that was almost 30 years ago, so I concede that things might have changed a bit since then. But I still want to go back
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Bow, I’m a Slytherin 4 years ago
No, we don’t. Only a select few. But we don’t talk about.. them.
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Mark Howell 4 years ago
Nor, as I was asked often across the pond, know the Queen personally. Although Liz is a good mateand enjoys a Gin down the Coach like the rest of us ;o)
Victor Manteca Hierro 4 years ago
Every time I see the Parliament I can't help thinking of the guy in Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch.
Mark Schilling 4 years ago
But this is the same with most countries. The US isn't just New York City. Japan isn't just Tokyo. But if you don't live there, that's the impression you get.
#14
That we in Southeast Asia conveniently provide the fruit carts that people in hot pursuit can knock over because we are strategically in the way. Dudes, there is always plenty of space to play chase without crashing.
#15
Canada isn't actually just a frozen Tundra where American Heroes can escape to and live in a log cabin off the grid.
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
We also don't say "eh", although that may be a regional thing. Hollywood doesn't seem to realize that Canada is a huge country, with different terrains and cultures within it's borders. We don't apologize that much, and we really aren't that nice. I mean we do have nice manners. We do enjoy a good fight, though. We won't start them, but we do like to finish them.
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Well, stereotypes aside... Not sure about Hollywood but Americans in general view Canada as our brothers, sisters, and dearest friends
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Mark Schilling 4 years ago
Much of it is. We mostly live in the south along the US border. However, that frozen tundra isn't empty. There are indigenous people living there.
k1ddkanuck 4 years ago
It really isn't though... the Canadian shield extends for hundreds of kilometers before you get to tundra. Tundra doesn't really start till you get to the frost line. Boreal forests are not tundra.
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Henry Hagens 4 years ago
Some of us do, I even automatically apologize when people step on my feet!
Load More Replies... Mark Howell 4 years ago
They can also get cheaphealth care and benefits as well from their log cabin. So living a long and happy life ;o)
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
And please, do not bring your snowskis in July. Not going to happen. Lived in the States for awhile. When I encountered fellow Canucks visiting, we actually do say eh a lot.
#16
Everything, it seems that they think Spain is Mexico
elfin 4 years ago
All 330 million of us? Even though it's a big country and we live in a lot of different regions with different cultures?
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In Spain, we speak Spanish and we can get diferences from Scotland and Australia, but USA people don't know in wich continent Spain is....
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El muerto 4 years ago
they don't seem to realize that Spain is in Europe either...and the sick part, America is a f*****g continent not just that one country!!
Steven Burns 4 years ago
that said, some Europeans in the past have debated about whether Spain is truly part of Europe or if it should belong to Africa
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Julia Martínez 4 years ago
Or that everyone dances flamenco, the men are brunette hotties (damn you, Antonio Banderas!!) or everything is sunny or bloody hot!! (and we don't eat 100% time paella...)
Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
Just by extention, not every southamerican country is mexican, nor has a jungle, people don't use sombreros or play "la cucaracha" on every train station.
Purr·maid 4 years ago
𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒔. 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏𝒔. 𝑰𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅? 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍.
Carpeton 4 years ago
It is not "your worst citizens". It is the companies that have millions of dollars, that contract the best expertise and advisors to represent a specific environment... and they cannot distinguish Spain from Mexico or Pakistan from Irak If it were a problem of illiteracy of some (whatever they are) people, it could be understood. It is a question of the culture-makers from the US, with all their experts, technicians and so on.
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Lotus Flower 4 years ago
I’m Mexican and Spanish and just today was asked why I “look white” because I should “be brown”. OMG Europeans aren’t fricken all brown and there’s millions of “white” Mexicans. Sorry, exhausting.
#17
Most American high schoolers don't go to a school so small that there's a single popular group that everyone knows and cares about.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
My graduating class was 120 students.... While we didn't have 1 single popular group, everyone knew everyone.
A Head 4 years ago
Yeah, I graduated with about 100 other people, and we all knew each other, and there were definitely the "popular" kids. Now my daughter goes to a high school with about 3500 students. It's larger than either of the colleges that my wife and I went to. It's weird - there are like 10 buildings including a huge four story parking garage.
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tuzdayschild 4 years ago
I sadly had to explain this to my 13 year old nephew who was really worried about going to high school.
sylvanticx 4 years ago
and many of us in small schools still don't have a popular group. My school's graduating class is around 40 people. No one is popular.
Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
They did where I grew up . My kids have gone to way larger high schools. I don't know which is best honestly . My childhood was really happy and idyllic . Everyone knew everyone , and most of us were friends. The whole town would go to football games , we'd have parades and carnivals for the whole town . It was really nice . I think it was probably harder to fit in in that setting though. My kids' schools were so big that everyone had their groups of friends. That was good for my kids since they are autistic .
Lotus Flower 4 years ago
A lot do. There are more rural schools than urban. One third of all US schools are rural.
#18
German Here. I'll just let you guess....
Vicky Z 4 years ago
You don't walk with sandals and socks? Cause I have photos from Greek Islands😅😅😅😅
Sweet Happiness 4 years ago
Extremely punctual? Watch the clock? Organized and efficient? Speak your mind? Serve the truth in a chunk and not slice it?
Wanderlust 4 years ago
Met a German before and my mistake was mentioning the nazi history. Foolish attempt to explain that I learned it from a American school.
Remi Flynne 4 years ago
Why on earth would you ever go there in conversation?
Load More Replies... Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
NAZIS! Or other bad guys, and ugly girls. I'm german, i'm a girl, i'm not ugly! And my family and friends don't want to kill James Bond or destroy the Universe. Also, most of us learnt English in school, properly. We don't all have such a strong annoying accent. My teacher would have killed me if I spoke in that way!
#19
British films often have guns casually yet its very rare to find a gun outside of serious organised crime.
Something 4 years ago
Guns are way overrepresented in movies in general compared to how many people use them in real life.
cory harrison 4 years ago
The US has 120 guns for every 100 people. I actually think movie under represent that in movies.
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Jackie Porter 4 years ago
Only Armed Response Unit officers carry weapons and they need permission from a higher officer before getting them out and loading ammo. They're only allowed to do that in cases where there's a serious risk of harm to the public or to officers.
Hetal Vyas 4 years ago
British police and the general public do not walk about with guns! The police that have guns are usually special forces if there's a credible threat
Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
This is why Americans will be fighting off the alien invasion. We ALL have guns right? Lol.
#20
It's not all snake charmers, cows and the Taj Mahal.
Shaivya Shrivastava 4 years ago
Honestly, do not recall the last time I saw an actual snake charmer in person... always wondered where the discovery and nat geo people got them from.
Vishy 4 years ago
There are no snake charmers. They rip the fangs out and the snake moves to the movement of the hand.
Load More Replies... Victor Manteca Hierro 4 years ago
It's also overcrowded trains with people yelling nonsense and chickens running up and down.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
India is a wonderful country, I have many, many happy memories from visiting in the 80's up until the 2000's, some 'interesting ' encounters along the way but mostly good, decent people who were hospitable, kind and thoughtful. I'm seriously thinking about retiring there - Goa or Sri Lanka probably x
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Never been, but the family member who lived in India for six months said it's either "glorious or a garbage can". Guessing he must be in contact with the film people.
Just a Marine Veteran 4 years ago
I've never seen a snake charmer in my parent's neighborhood in Mumbai, but there are a lot of cows walking in the road causing problems, lol.
#21
99% of British people do not talk like they were born in the 18th Century!
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Since we have no recordings from the 1700s, gonna guess we're all just taking wild guesses on what anyone sounded like?
#22
That every Puerto Rican woman is dark skinned with big butts, wearing hoops in our ears, lining our lips with sharpies, generally uneducated, and utterly psychotic.
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
Right. Some of us graduated college, have a great job, have little butts, are Bettie Page wannabes, light skinned with freckles (god I hate mine) and don't speak Spanish. I still wear hoops though, big ones and I'm only mildly psychotic - I'm medicated.
Chaotic-Pansexual-Gemini 4 years ago
Lol even being half- Puerto Rican, these stereotypes have been thrown at me all my life
Ambar 4 years ago
YES YES YES! my family is Hispanic but the only people who are dark-skinned are me, my father, aunts, and grandpa and we are really that dark. not all of us have big behinds, wearing hoops in our ears, none of us are uneducated, lining lips with sharpies, and not all of us are psycho nor do we all speak Spanish naturally(that is something I don't like when people are like: Oh you're from [hispainc contry] so u must speak Spanish right!" WRONG, me+my sister+my cousins first language is actually English as far as I know)
Jaime 4 years ago
Well now I’m just picturing an old grandfather with a very large butt and sharpie lined lips...
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Sista of the moon 4 years ago
Wait..... what? This is like saying not all water is wet. If this is true, my life is a LIE. /s
Remi Flynne 4 years ago
Going to make it worse for you! Liquid water is not itself wet, but can make other solid materials wet. Wetness is the ability of a liquid to adhere to the surface of a solid, so when we say that something is wet, we mean that the liquid is sticking to the surface of a material. So water is not wet. Sorry.
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Steve Wilson 4 years ago
To paraphrase another comment “not all of them. Just 80% of them”. JK....😉
grey galah 4 years ago
Oh no, this entry and the one about 20 something high school girls in the US is shaking my understanding about the Americas.
#23
Spain: we don't party all the time, we don't like bullfighting (most of us don't), we're not lazy, we're not Mexican, we like Mexicans and Mexico but we are from a different country.
Alexis Draskinis 4 years ago
OMG! Went to visit our family during the festivals & it was the best party ever!!!!! Never seem 1 community have that much fun just drinking, playing music, & dancing in the streets! The parades & fireworks cant be beat either!
Load More Replies... Scagsy 4 years ago
I am pleased to learn that most Spaniards do not like bullfighting. It is a barbaric 'sport' and I always cheer when I see a Matador get gored. Makes my day.
Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
It's not a sport anywhere in the world. It's banned in half Spain, it's not banned in other countries, for example, France. In fact, most Spanish (= people from Spain) are against bullfighting. Wtf is a "matador"? You mean "torero". Corridas de toros ( =bullfighting) and sanfermines are different things. Spain is in Europe.
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This used to annoy my grandmother. She was Spanish (born in Spain, family is still there) & people would say shes puerto rican, latin, essentially everything but hispanic & would assume they're all the same. She would kindly explain that they may be similar but they are not all the same & that even their spanish languages were not exactly alike. She had no issues with any of the other cultures/ethnicities but hated to have to explain that they're not all wound up in the same ball
Victor Manteca Hierro 4 years ago (edited)
And "flamenco" is mostly an Andalusian thing (and not all Andalusians like it at all. Mostly roma/gypsy people).
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
It is, but you still see in it in tableaus throughout Spain.
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Nick Kutzko 4 years ago
How about the siesta thing? That still common? TBH, I think I’d be a lot happier if I could crash for an hour or 2 after lunch
Frankenfrog 4 years ago
TECHNICALLY many of you are the same people, you know, 'cause colonisation
jevais 4 years ago
No that's not right, colonisations of Mexico, Central America, South America didn't erase the culture or religions of the people.
Load More Replies... Boudewijn van der Mik 4 years ago
I've learned that the SPANISH manãna actually means tomorrow. And not soms other time.
#24
Basically Italy is 90% countryside and the cities in the remaining 10% are roman ruins, old houses inhabited by septuagenarians or Venice
Nyneva Kyte 4 years ago
Pretty sure "predator" is the word you're looking for here
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JessG 4 years ago
But these are the things that tourists want to see. Again, it conveys a feeling
DogMom 4 years ago (edited)
I can think of a few bigger. Just ask Dylan Farrow or his former adopted daughter/wife.
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#25
Bavaria is not our whole country.
Natalie Bohrteller 4 years ago
At least that's a typical stereotype about Germans, everybody wearing Lederhosen and Dirndl.
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Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
And even in Bavaria, people don't wear Trachten (Lederhosen, Dirndl,...) all the time. I know some people who wear it for festivities and stuff, waiters do it in traditional restaurants, but not everybody and not all the time!
Miss Cris 4 years ago
Typical also, present bavarians as tyroleses.... :S
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John Bayer 4 years ago (edited)
Some might claim it's the best part, though! (P.S.--"Bayer" means "Bavarian")
#26
We are TURKS not Arabs! I am not saying that Arabs are bad, I am just saying that taking Turks or Turkic people as they are Arabs are wrong
François Carré 4 years ago
Not only in Hollywood movies. Many people in Europe just think Muslim = Arab and don't even know that Turkic, Arabic and Persian cultures are completely different.
My O My 4 years ago
We, sadly, didn't learn anything about other cultures in school. In germany in the 2000s
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Frankenfrog 4 years ago
I don't get why people can't tell the difference, those three languages sound nothing alike
Robert Robi Z 4 years ago
This would be similar to say all Italians are Catholic, or that every Catholic is a European
#27
Not EVERYONE in Colombia is part of a drug cartel or mafia and not EVERYWHERE is a poor neighbourhood. We have some pretty nice f**king cities and some famous holiday locations.
Carolina Fernández González 4 years ago
Stupid Mr and Mrs Smith and their first scene about Colombia.................
#28
We don't walk around in kilts all day. And that isn't our accent.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
In real life an American once asked my Scottish mother if all Scottish men did all day was walk around the Highlands playing the bagpipes. Spoiler alert: They Don't.
Wanderlust 4 years ago
I'll be damned shammed by anyone if I ask about this. I'm honestly brainwashed by Americans
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Steve Barnett 4 years ago
N.B. THE FOLLOWING IS A PARODY! Yeah, you’re too busy deciding whether to eat shortbread or a deep-fried mars bar. Whilst knocking back scotch, in-between your next course of haggis. Getting ready for your next hit of smack, entertaining the idea of a round of golf, whilst reading Robert Burns and counting your pennies.
Lucas 4 years ago
Steve... sigh. Classic mistake. You missed out hunting for haggis. These wee beasties don't just jump on our plates by themselves.
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
When James Doohan’s son was doing the yt reboot of Star Trek original series he was worried about the Scottish accent. He asked around and apparently James Doohan’s accent wasn’t that good. Pressure off!
Vanta Black 4 years ago
Which is why Simon Pegg had his wife teach him to sound as authentic as possible when he landed the role for the newer movies.
Load More Replies... James Mills 4 years ago
well i had a tour guide who drove a bus and he says he always wears kilts everyday. he was probably in his 30s
Beth W 4 years ago
Weve never said "och aye the noo", "hoots mon"" "it's a brae bricht moonlit nicht" and the one I hate most... "Glasgee". It's Glezga ya rocket and most of us dislike Robert Burns, haggis, bagpipes and tartan.
ADHD 4 years ago
the f**k you on aboot, how do most of us dislike Burns, haggis and bagpipes, dear gods are ye a yoon?
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Potato Puffin 4 years ago
I'm from Uphall, originally. Moved to England when I was young. I'm female. I regularly got asked if I wore underwear or a kilt.
#29
Mexico isn’t 100% desert
Victor Manteca Hierro 4 years ago
Well, New Mexico is, and that's the only Mexico Hollywood really knows.
4 years ago
Texas isn't either. (Sorry, a lot of kid shows make that mistake. Only in west Texas and very west does it start becoming that dry.)
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I suspect nobody wants to try to film in the jungles. Rotten natural light and too much trouble? But I am guessing.
#30
We aren't romantic in France
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Personally, I don't think so. But I've been to France numerous times and they are particular about foreigners not trying to speak French. I speak pigeon French, even though I struggle they appreciate it when I try.
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jimmy pop 4 years ago (edited)
There's actually a mental medical condition called "Paris syndrome", which has been notibly observed among mostly Japanese tourists and is caused by a severe disparity of expectation vs. reality of visiting Paris - an extreme form of culture shock. Affected people suffer from delusions, hallucinations, derealization, anxiety, dizziness, vomiting. The French are literally traumatically unromantic.
Jane Alexander 4 years ago
Maybe learn to say '"don't speak French" in French and maybe they'll cut you some slack. Je ne parle pas le Francoise. Correct this somebody please, Merci.
Cath Homer 4 years ago
Désolé, je ne parle pas français. Likewise, the first thing I learned to say in Welsh was "Sori, ond dw i ddim yn siarad Cymraeg".
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Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
And they aren't a bunch of "surrender monkeys," either. Remember Joan of Arc? Remember Napoleon? Both were French, and both kicked a lot of ass.
Dariusz M. D. 4 years ago
Hey Freya, though not a Frenchman myself I cannot agree more. Let's remember French resistance during the Second World War. If you are old enough you may remember when Republicans wanted to change the name of French fries to freedom fries because France refused to take part in Iraqi war. Always makes me laugh.
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Silvia John 4 years ago (edited)
I experienced France as a very tourist-unfriendly country. Not a good memory. They pretend they don't understand you even if you speak French. We were looking for a post office to buy postage stamps and they pretended not to know. It turned out that the post office was 200 meters away.
Daphne Williams 4 years ago
The French are actually more romantic, if my personal dating experience is any indication. Or I just met all of the romantic Frenchmen in France.
#31
That we have some sort of cursed mummy thing waiting to happen. Or happening. And that we somehow need a pretty white woman to raise Bast from the dead or something.
Tuncer Coşar 4 years ago (edited)
In movies all Egyptologists are Western. And Egyptians are only there for digging the site without any clue what they've found, probably will be killed right after the discovery.
Marco Conti 4 years ago
To be fair, everyone involved in discovering King Tut tomb is dead now. The curse ultimately worked.
#32
It's not cold all the time in Canada. I'm dying here in July it's been 40C for a long time.
albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
As a Canadian I have been several places where the days high peaked at 44C, > 110 freedumb units). The same location can drop to -40C (-40F) Also, southern part of central BC is actually northern tip of Sonora ecosystem which means rattle snakes, cacti, tumbleweeds, months without rain, all the un-Canadian stuff
kjorn 4 years ago
in canada we have really hot summer and really cold winter. we can go from -40 to +40 in few month
Me 4 years ago
I could see that as neighboring Montana has a record low of -70F and a record high of 117F.
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Caroline Seguin 4 years ago
That's right. Very long winters, but very hot summers too. In celcius we go from 40 (in summer) to minus 40 (in winter). We used to have a long Spring but not anymore.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 4 years ago
I do. And I appreciate the conversions. Saves me from googling. I can sympathize with the 44c/104f, I live in Arizona. Many days in the summer is 47c/118f!
Rattus Norvegicus 3 years ago
As a Canadian, I can confirm this. Climate can depend on where you are. And in these parts of Ontario, the temperature can reach 40 degrees celsius easily. For comparison, that's something you can expect in literal DESERTS. (Winter can be brutal though. We currently have 2 feet of snow outside my house). Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
sylvanticx 4 years ago
where i live it gets up to 44C sometimes. I can take anything up to 41.6 as long as I don't have to exercise, but 44 is just too much.
#33
Netherlands is not Amsterdam only
Ozacoter 4 years ago
And netherlands isnt weed. I lived there two years and didnt see anybody smoking.
Melia Janssen 4 years ago
Most of the weed is bought by tourists who, in the past 10 years have behaved very badly. They're considering banning tourists from the weed shops altogether if things don't improve.
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J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
Never saw somebody running in wooden shoes around either
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Arthur Waite 4 years ago
No, of course not.... the rest of it is green fields with tulips in the foreground and windmills in the background.
Melia Janssen 4 years ago
Problem is that Amsterdam is the most recognisable one so that's the one they go to for the most obvious shots.
Stephanie de Blaauw 4 years ago
Shhhhhh, don't tell them. We are trying to keep them out, just look how overcrowded Amsterdam is with tourists.. let them stay there and let us have our peace and quiet
#34
That the Amazon Rainforest is just a short car ride away from Rio de Janeiro
Something 4 years ago
In movies in general, everything is right near everything else that's important unless the plot requires it to be otherwise.
N G 4 years ago
Conservation of story telling. I generally let this one slide - if I wanted to watch someone travel in real time, I'd make the damn journey myself! Same goes for finding a convenient parking space, never having to use the bathroom (unless plot relevant), and all payments being made in cash with exact change.
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clever username 4 years ago
I was born in Brazil and have been to the Amazon rainforest it was so f*****g cool!
Mark Howell 4 years ago
An interesting caveat there is the Pyramids of Giza that you see in pictures, if the camera was turned 180 degrees, would show a proad and Cairo.
Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
not any more for sure -- as much of it's been destroyed it'll take days of hard driving to find any...
#35
Everything. Apparently Finnish people speak everything else BUT Finnish and the culture stuff? Swedish...
Kesam 4 years ago
That's what you get for living in East Sweden. Greetings from West Sweden (Norway) 😊
Y T 4 years ago
Oh you have finally learned *laughs evil the Swedish way*
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Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago (edited)
I thought Finnish people are mute alcoholics with knives??? (Look for "Scandinavia and the world", it's hilarious!) 😂😂😂
Mark Schilling 4 years ago
I'll give you a hint. The English speaking world knows this about Scandinavia, Iceland and Finland: Denmark is Legos, Sweden is Ikea, meatballs and ABBA, Norway is whaling and A-ha, Finland is Nokia, Iceland is Björk. What they don't tend to know is that Finland is not part of Scandinavia. But since most of us have Netflix we're watching those dark Nordic crime shows, so we're learning (mostly we're mostly learning that you all seem to be killing each other, slowly, in the dark and in the snow).
#36
Not every canadian is kind, we can be and are a-holes
Sarah Simons 4 years ago
I can see how this is true, you can't get a whole country to be nice and polite. But most of the Canadians I've met are, so that's something to be proud of.
Christina Schulte 4 years ago
And, and I've never in all my days, heard a fellow Canadian actually say "aboat".
#37
Mexico. Apparently, every day is Día de los Muertos.
#38
That everywhere in the US looks *just like* southern california. I've seen shows set in Washington DC with palm trees. We do not have palm trees, nor do we have people driving around with surfboards in their car
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Sometimes I think they think we wouldn’t realize these lil details, but these lil mistakes in details is what makes you snap out of watching the flick cause you lost the imagination
RandomBeing 4 years ago
Come to think of it, if you did more area specific comedic views of the U.S. It would actually be really funny.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
I'd be interested to give people a map of the US and a paintbrush and have them paint in where they think they would find banjo music (the good kind, or the Deliverance kind).
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#39
That all of us are either IT professionals or we spend our time at spelling bee competitions, I don't know [anything] about computers, nor do I know to spell!
Stuart Smith 4 years ago
I love the fact that IT geeks in movies/tv can hack anything in 10 seconds..... and they have screens that are constantly scrolling gibberish!
Bill Evs 4 years ago
"That all of us are either IT professionals or we spend our time at spelling bee competitions" Who's "us"?
#40
The Bahamas is just one big beach and we all say yeah mon, actually every country in and around the Caribbean is portrayed this way.
kennedy1209 4 years ago
Bahamians definitely don't say yeah mon all the time... that's a Jamaican thing.
#41
I've yet to come across a movie where Argentina is well represented at all, so I'm going to say "literally everything"
#42
I'm Serbian. No, we don't own guns, and no, we're not in a war.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
The fact that many Americans watched the Yugoslav Wars happen on live television over the course of a decade really cemented a negative image in many people's minds. I wish it hadn't.
Rebeka Gyulai 4 years ago
Well. Actually after ‘The Serbian Movie’ you guys have worse reputation, just saying :/
Dariusz M. D. 4 years ago
Sure, I have not met a Serbian I did not like and you all seemed pretty chill and friendly, but in terms of gun ownership per capita you are sixth in the world. First in Europe. Just saying.
#43
State not country but believe it or not, not everyone in Texas has a thick country accent and wears cowboy boots
DeathMalice1485 4 years ago
Born and raised texan here.... when i talk to people, they say i sound more like a Californian or Coloradan... definitely no southern drawl.
Jeremy Van Portfliet 4 years ago
Born in Colorado but raised in Texas. The only time I have what I think is a noticable accent is when I am pissed or drunk......so maybe quite a bit.
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I can assure you that there are no sheep running around the sports car infested streets of Dubai. I'm looking at you Mission Impossible.
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Mission: Impossible? After six movies, it’s obviously now Mission: Possible.
Scagsy 4 years ago
That's slated for the eighth film. We're currently at Mission: (Theoretically) Possible. Movie 7 is reportedly gonna be Mission: (Beta Testing) Possible
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#45
Bogotá is not a big wild jungle where we live in tipis surrounded by farm animals. Also, Bogota is not hot!
Manu 4 years ago
Bogota is a cruel jungle made of concrete. The only good thing you can do in Bogota is to leave and never go back
Dariusz M. D. 4 years ago
Wow, really? Have to run to cancel my air tickets.
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#46
That we are all super cute and romantic people who will take you to the Eiffel tower after painting you in a park.
Victor Manteca Hierro 4 years ago
You are super cute and romantic people who charge 7 euros for a beer.
#47
SMASH CUT to a sweeping aerial shot over a desolate, red dirt plain, kangaroos bounding across the landscape. In the distance, we see a solitary, dilapidated tin shed with a rusty windmill beside it and a rough looking old man wearing an Akubra and holding a stubbie. Music is the same as every Hollywood smash cut to the Middle East, except the main instrument is a blaring didgeridoo
Sergy Yeltsen 4 years ago
Hahahaha, awesome. The seppos really have no idea, but as long as it keeps them out...
#48
Switzerland: We have other things than banks
Kira Okah 4 years ago
It's because Swiss banks provide a lot more privacy, confidentiality, and security than banks in other "tax haven" countries, so people used them to hide undisclosed moolah due to the confidentiality part.
Load More Replies... Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
CHEESE AND CHOCOLADE AND MOUNTAINS AND HEIDI... Anything else? 😂😂😂
#49
Not all swedes are blonde and multilingual (almost all of us speak Swedish and English very well tho)
Kesam 4 years ago
Well, you just shot yourself in your multilingual Swedish foot there, didn't you? 😂 (*googles percentage of blonds in Sweden*)
Her Highness, Duke of Qin 4 years ago
I had a Swedish friend who spoke better English than me. I miss him🥺
#50
We're not all hobbits
Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
At least it's taken attention away from the randy farmers and their sheep! 😉
#51
The Arabic dance in Aladdin, it's actually Indian with some modern / western moves. They only got the music right.
Something 4 years ago
Since it's supposed to take place in China (according to the original version), I guess it sort of averages out?
Monday 4 years ago
Kind of yes. According to google "A frame narrative set in India and Indochina in the legendary past links a series of inner tales from Persia, Arabia, and China"
Load More Replies... Her Highness, Duke of Qin 4 years ago
The story of Aladdin isn't even Arabic. It's a North African story they told to their kids. Someone the stole it and made it Arabic, Chinese, indian or whatever
#52
That Philippines is not all rice fields and beaches.
4 years ago
You want me to be honest? I thought of them as poor. With nice beaches.
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 4 years ago
Given the number of islands, statistically wouldn't it be mostly beaches?
Her Highness, Duke of Qin 4 years ago
Each Filipino drama I've seen one of the families always own a plantation or a factory or an industry or a company etc
#53
We all aren't Rastas smoking weed on the beach
#54
The Netherlands Our language In one show they said: gaat hij haar een taxi gebeld) Translated to English it says: goes he her a taxi called) That’s not how we say it but okay
Sven Devestele 4 years ago
Tbf if you said 'Heeft hij haar een taxi gebeld' it WOuld translate directly to ''has he her a taxi called'. I mean the Dutch they used is wrong but don't translate words like Google translate does. Languages don't work the same way.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
In Dutch we never say "Heeft hij haar een taxi gebeld?". We say "Heeft hij een taxi voor haar gebeld?" Which translates to: "Did he call a taxi for her?" But since I'm Dutch, I'm sure that I'll be lectured about how we say things in the Netherlands.
Load More Replies... Victor Manteca Hierro 4 years ago
I always thought that Dutch is very much like German but spoken with a very open mouth. XD
#55
That badass cartel enforcers roam around working alone, driving classic cars, wearing shiny suits, etc. This is more like it. Bunch of poor, brainwashed, uneducated expendable foot soldiers on the payroll of a private army.
#56
I grew up in Vancouver and they’re always portraying it as New York or LA, bastards.
Jenn Granger 4 years ago
I know Vancouver as “Central City”, “National City”, “Star City/Starlng City”, “Gotham”, “Smallville” and everywhere & when Legends of Tomorrow travels to. It’s where CW films all the superhero shows. Not to mention everywhere something freaky happens in the USA on Supernatural.
#57
We have other things then the pyramids and Cairo.
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Thebes, Luxor, Valley of the Kings, The Nile, Suez, Dahab. Sharm El Sheikh, Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine's Monastery. Yeah, I had a great time.
jevais 4 years ago
And of course the hospitality of the Middle East and the glorious FOOD.
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#58
That Jamaica is just smoking. They never really show the resorts and all of the nice landscaping to the fullest
#59
In Chris Hemsworth's Extraction...we saw Bangladesh and India border divided by a bridge....that's not true at all... And the shooting was not even in Bangladesh...only the river was shot..
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
I feel you. Most of the movie scenes in Zurich, Switzerland are shot in Eastern Europe, a lot in Prague because it is less expensive.
Sill Marien 4 years ago
you tell me they went and found somewhere cheaper to shot than Bangladesh?
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Israel is nothing about religion In the most relevant cities (Tel Aviv)
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
So.. I guess Jerusalem, despite being the capital city, isn't a relevant city? e_e
What do you think ?
troufaki13 4 years ago
Greeks don't wear traditional outfits, ride donkeys as a means of transportation and generally live in the early 1900s. We are fully living in the modern world, I promise!!
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Also we don't break plates, dance all day and eat souvlaki all the time! But yes we are loud!!!
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Eslamala 4 years ago
Not every person who speaks spanish is mexican, because (duh!) most of central/south american countries speak spanish! And Spain does as well. And not every spanish speaking person *looks* mexican, because of that same reason.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Don't forget the Philippines! Nobody remembers the poor Philippines.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Exactly. There are big differences. I've seen people get into fistfights when they were told 'Oh, but that's basically Russia, right?'.....
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Movies use stereotypes as "shorthand" to "set the mood/scene". I don't like it, but it does make it easier to tell who is the bad guy in a Bond film.
Biljana Malesevic 4 years ago
Serbian people are not all criminals, mafia and extremely poor people. In fact, 99% of criminals here are in government, street criminal is rare, murders are also very rare. Most people are on poor side, but they don't walk around in rags, like they came from rural area of 19th century. People look normal and they are dressed normal, just like in any other European country.
Glowdaddy 4 years ago
I think it has to do with the American Education System. I am American and lived overseas until I was 14, it amazed me how internationally clueless many of my high school classmates were. Plus I noticed a big difference in the way geography is taught in other countries compared to the US.
Nikki 4 years ago
THIS! I always say people need to leave the US to actually see the real world. Their view is so skewed.
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Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Fun fact: If you are in France, you are more likely to be able to see the Eiffel Tower out your window than you are to see any part of Manhattan, Hollywood OR Chicago combined if you are in America. Only 17% of Americans live in any of America's 100 largest cities.... and by "city," we mean nothing like what Europeans think of as a city. Even some of our top 25 most populous cities have population densities of fewer than 500 people per square km. Oklahoma City, for instance, is a few tall government buildings surrounded by suburbs. 77% of Americans live in detached housing, compared to 24% of Brits, 25% of Swiss (!!!), 40% of Irish, 13% of Spanish and 26% of Germans, 42% of French and 23% of Italians. Only in a few major cities do any but single people, the poor and immigrants live in flats (confusingly called "apartments"). Suburbanites (i.e., from counties without urban centers) tend to be wealthier, better educated and much more politically conservative than city-dwellers...
Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
Not everyone from Portugal, Spain, Italy or Greece is brown, short, fat an ugly.
Load More Replies... Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Hollywood used to be REAL bad about this (I mean god-awful bad), but it seems to be trending lately for more authenticity. It's still bad though. That said, TBH American movies are made for American audiences, not for the rest of you
troufaki13 4 years ago
Greeks don't wear traditional outfits, ride donkeys as a means of transportation and generally live in the early 1900s. We are fully living in the modern world, I promise!!
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Also we don't break plates, dance all day and eat souvlaki all the time! But yes we are loud!!!
Load More Replies... Eslamala 4 years ago
Not every person who speaks spanish is mexican, because (duh!) most of central/south american countries speak spanish! And Spain does as well. And not every spanish speaking person *looks* mexican, because of that same reason.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Don't forget the Philippines! Nobody remembers the poor Philippines.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Exactly. There are big differences. I've seen people get into fistfights when they were told 'Oh, but that's basically Russia, right?'.....
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Movies use stereotypes as "shorthand" to "set the mood/scene". I don't like it, but it does make it easier to tell who is the bad guy in a Bond film.
Biljana Malesevic 4 years ago
Serbian people are not all criminals, mafia and extremely poor people. In fact, 99% of criminals here are in government, street criminal is rare, murders are also very rare. Most people are on poor side, but they don't walk around in rags, like they came from rural area of 19th century. People look normal and they are dressed normal, just like in any other European country.
Glowdaddy 4 years ago
I think it has to do with the American Education System. I am American and lived overseas until I was 14, it amazed me how internationally clueless many of my high school classmates were. Plus I noticed a big difference in the way geography is taught in other countries compared to the US.
Nikki 4 years ago
THIS! I always say people need to leave the US to actually see the real world. Their view is so skewed.
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Fun fact: If you are in France, you are more likely to be able to see the Eiffel Tower out your window than you are to see any part of Manhattan, Hollywood OR Chicago combined if you are in America. Only 17% of Americans live in any of America's 100 largest cities.... and by "city," we mean nothing like what Europeans think of as a city. Even some of our top 25 most populous cities have population densities of fewer than 500 people per square km. Oklahoma City, for instance, is a few tall government buildings surrounded by suburbs. 77% of Americans live in detached housing, compared to 24% of Brits, 25% of Swiss (!!!), 40% of Irish, 13% of Spanish and 26% of Germans, 42% of French and 23% of Italians. Only in a few major cities do any but single people, the poor and immigrants live in flats (confusingly called "apartments"). Suburbanites (i.e., from counties without urban centers) tend to be wealthier, better educated and much more politically conservative than city-dwellers...
Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
Not everyone from Portugal, Spain, Italy or Greece is brown, short, fat an ugly.
Load More Replies... Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Hollywood used to be REAL bad about this (I mean god-awful bad), but it seems to be trending lately for more authenticity. It's still bad though. That said, TBH American movies are made for American audiences, not for the rest of you
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