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.
#21

99% of British people do not talk like they were born in the 18th Century!
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165points
#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.
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164points
#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.
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163points
#24

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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157points
#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
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146points
#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.
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144points
#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.
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129points
#32
It's not cold all the time in Canada. I'm dying here in July it's been 40C for a long time.
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128points
#34

That the Amazon Rainforest is just a short car ride away from Rio de Janeiro
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124points
#35
Everything. Apparently Finnish people speak everything else BUT Finnish and the culture stuff? Swedish...
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100points




