Inaccuracies and clichés in American Media about Europe according to Europeans:
London isn’t the entirety of England
There are several regional English accents
English grammar and accent are different from American
An Australian accent isn’t the same as an English accent
Robin Hood and King Arthur stories are overdone
The Scottish cliché of the happy drunkard needs to stop
Hollywood Irish accents are not equal to actual Irish
Not every Irish is a Red-Head
No one says “Sacré Bleu” or “Hon Hon Hon”
There is more to France than Paris
Sex crazed Frenchmen cliché needs to die
Versailles wasn’t a golden palace, it was filthy and disgusting
Napoleon wasn’t short, he was the average hight for a male at the time
Poland history is more than World War II and Auschwitz
Castillan and Catalan are different from each other.
European Spanish is different from Latin American Spanish
Not everyone is into Bullfighting, in fact, it has become controversial recently
Spaniards are Mediterranean Caucasian, not Latinos
If you’re gonna portray an event from Spanish history, don’t simply follow the French or the English version because those are very biased
There is more to Spain than Madrid and Barcelona
Portugal isn’t part of Spain
Portuguese isn’t the same as Spanish
The Portuguese are Mediterranean Caucasian, not Latinos
Brazilian Portuguese is different from European Portuguese, both in words and accent
There is more to Portuguese History than the Age of Discoveries
No one in Portugal wants to unite with Spain
No one lives in a windmill
Just because weed is legal, doesn’t mean everyone is high
There is more to the Netherlands than Amsterdam
Drop the drugs and the prostitutes cliché
There is more to Romania than Dracula, vampires and the Romani
Romanian isn’t Russian, in fact, it’s part of the Romance languages
Swedish is not Danish, Norwegian or Finnish
Vikings didn’t have horned helmets
Norwegian isn’t Swedish, Danish or Finnish
Danish isn’t Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish
Finnish isn’t Swedish, Norwegian or Danish
Portray Italy as it is today, not as it was 200 years ago
Drop the sex-crazed Italian stereotype
The Mafia cliché is overdone
Greeks don’t yell Opa all the time
There is more to Greek history than ancient Greece
There is more to Greece than Athens
It’s not Slovenia or Czechoslovakia
Living standards have greatly improved since 1989
Ukraine is not part of Russia or the USRR
Stop portraying Serbians as terrorists
Austria is not part of Germany
There is more to Austria than WW2 and Nazis
German history is more than World World 1 and 2
Nazi plotlines are overused
Stop making so many villains German
The Russian people are not their governments
When doing a historical movie, do research
Hire actors from the countries you are portraying
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