Vote up Hollywood's funniest international stereotypes.
Enough with the Eiffel Tower views from every window. What Hollywood gets wrong about other countries is... a lot, according to people who live in those places. Foreign country stereotypes have many US viewers thinking British people are all posh and Canadians are all saints. Wrong and wrong.
People on Reddit who are not from the United States but like US movies and TV shows willingly shared ways their country has been stereotyped, misinterpreted, or turned a strange color.
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Everything In Mexico And South America Has A Sepia/Yellowish/Orange Hue
Africa isn't a country; it's a continent... We don't live in huts and don't have pet lions. We also don't wear animal skin as clothes, and those who do, do it by choice.
Hollywood: All Irish females are willowy ethereal dream girls with flowy red hair wearing this long droopy 1940s dress under a little thin cardigan your nana wouldn't be seen dead in, and flash their blue eyes flirtatiously at you on some rocky hillside.
In reality: All Irish women wear fleece jackets over [a] fake tan, and just want you to buy them curry chips.
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...
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France Looks Like California, And All Windows Have Views Of The Eiffel Tower
Not every window [has] a view on the Eiffel Tower. And it's painfully obvious when they go to shoot a vineyard scene in California to pass for French countryside.
