• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    2 days ago

    Thanks to Hollywood and the media, plus most Americans not even having a passport let alone using it, people really do believe stereotypes

    I know midwesterners who truly believe the Middle East is all one story clay shambly shacks, that everyone lives in a single room, and there’s a permanent sepia filter on.

    They only know it through Western media, and that media usually only portrays it for standard set pieces.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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      1 day ago

      I know midwesterners who truly believe the Middle East is all one story clay shambly shacks, that everyone lives in a single room, and there’s a permanent sepia filter on.

      I once to went to Mexio and everything was yellow tinted. Then I took off my yellow tinted glasses and everything was fine.