Cinoeye
Regular Member
I live for 10 years in USA and this is my expiriance how Americans see Europe and the Rest of the World.
I have notice several big stereotypes in the USA, about different regions, nations, races, ethnicity...
Most people only consider "Western" Europe to be Europe. UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany...are Europe. Everything else is mish-mash of those primar countries.
They have Stereotype about East Europe. Any former communist country is Eastern Europe. They belive there is no history and culture "there". Its cold, muddy, they all wright cyrilic alphabet and have same history.
Serbia is Siberia or Syria. Greeece is Souther Europe, but Albania that is next door to it is Somewhere next to RUssia.
In Europe, most countries use the term "NEAR EAST" for the region of SOUTH WEST ASIA, including Israel, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran...
Last several years USA media overused the term "THE MIDDLE EAST"(region, look, food..) for the same region.
USA media and public use this, even for the NORTH AFRICAN countries, such as Egypt,Libya or even Morocco(NORTH West Africa), central Asian countries, like Afghanistan...
I believe that most people use the term "The Middle East" want they refer to the Arabic countries, no matter where are they located.
This takes me to the term "Asian Look" winch referrers to the people who have slanted eyes from the FAR east regions of Asia, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, China...even tough lot of people from Asia do not have eyes like that. For Example, people from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Israel...
Same goes for the belief that all people in Africa are black.
Is it possible to call Americans with Egyptian or Libyan origin as African Americans, since they are from Africa? Can people from Pakistan , be called "Asian Americans".
And what about Hispanic people, referred to as a separate race, even dough, they are originally from Spain.
And one of my favorites is "Eastern Europe", used do describe any former communist country, no meter where geographically located in Europe.
What do you think?
I have notice several big stereotypes in the USA, about different regions, nations, races, ethnicity...
Most people only consider "Western" Europe to be Europe. UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany...are Europe. Everything else is mish-mash of those primar countries.
They have Stereotype about East Europe. Any former communist country is Eastern Europe. They belive there is no history and culture "there". Its cold, muddy, they all wright cyrilic alphabet and have same history.
Serbia is Siberia or Syria. Greeece is Souther Europe, but Albania that is next door to it is Somewhere next to RUssia.
In Europe, most countries use the term "NEAR EAST" for the region of SOUTH WEST ASIA, including Israel, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran...
Last several years USA media overused the term "THE MIDDLE EAST"(region, look, food..) for the same region.
USA media and public use this, even for the NORTH AFRICAN countries, such as Egypt,Libya or even Morocco(NORTH West Africa), central Asian countries, like Afghanistan...
I believe that most people use the term "The Middle East" want they refer to the Arabic countries, no matter where are they located.
This takes me to the term "Asian Look" winch referrers to the people who have slanted eyes from the FAR east regions of Asia, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, China...even tough lot of people from Asia do not have eyes like that. For Example, people from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Israel...
Same goes for the belief that all people in Africa are black.
Is it possible to call Americans with Egyptian or Libyan origin as African Americans, since they are from Africa? Can people from Pakistan , be called "Asian Americans".
And what about Hispanic people, referred to as a separate race, even dough, they are originally from Spain.
And one of my favorites is "Eastern Europe", used do describe any former communist country, no meter where geographically located in Europe.
What do you think?