‘What Does Hollywood Get Wrong About Your Home Country?’: 19 People Expose Lazy Writing Stereotypes

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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.

#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.

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#2

Americans are Not actually the voice of reason during a global crisis

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#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

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#4

American: Our high school students aren’t in their mid to late twenties.

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#5

That my world changes to sepia once I enter my country

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#6

My country is A COUNTRY in Africa

#7

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.

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#8

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

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#9

We don’t all live in London, or talk like cockneys or royalty

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#10

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.

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#11

Everything, it seems that they think Spain is Mexico

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#12

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.

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#13

British films often have guns casually yet its very rare to find a gun outside of serious organised crime.

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#14

It’s not all snake charmers, cows and the Taj Mahal.

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#15

99% of British people do not talk like they were born in the 18th Century!

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#16

Basically Italy is 90% countryside and the cities in the remaining 10% are roman ruins, old houses inhabited by septuagenarians or Venice

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#17

Bavaria is not our whole country.

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#18

Mexico isn’t 100% desert

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#19

That the Amazon Rainforest is just a short car ride away from Rio de Janeiro

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