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.

or that most of them dont know any names of the countries in africa, or the fact the S africa is a country.