Top 10 WRONG Cultural Stereotypes You Probably Believe

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/toptenzsubscribe
→10 Reasons Bruce Lee was a Superhuman: http://bit.ly/1Hl4mVu

Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Brand new videos 7 days a week! Videos are published at 6pm EST every day!

Subscribe to our Facebook:   / toptenz  

Other TopTenz Videos:

Top 10 Foreign Words You Thought Were English
http://bit.ly/1PWEtjj

Top 10 Most Important Empires In World History
http://bit.ly/1QqlXyV

There are billions of people in the world, and all of them are individuals with their own unique identities. With so many people to keep track of, and a much smaller corresponding number of cultures, humans invented stereotypes and other generalities as an attempt to understand large groups of people more easily. Over the years, this has led to a lot of confusion, hilarity, and strife around the world. The truth is that most stereotypes started due to some misconception, or something that was lost in translation, and aren’t really all that accurate for the individuals from the culture in question. Often, what we think we know about another people is wildly inaccurate, and sometimes the truth is far more interesting.

Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/10-misconcepti...

Coming up:

10. Australia Was Originally a Penal Colony for Hardened Criminals
9. The Connection Between the Ancient and Current Egyptians
8. Japan is Completely Nuts About Crazy Anime and Manga Series’
7. Canada is Completely Free, Independent, and Sovereign
6. British People Don’t Care About Their Teeth
5. Spanish People are Extremely Lazy
4. Black People and Their Alleged Love of Fried Chicken
3. The French are Prone to Collapse in a Wave of Surrender
2. The Island of Jamaica is a 24/7 Weed Lover’s Paradise
1. The German People are Mostly Humorless

Source/Further reading:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisf...
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010...
http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCom...
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-3288...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013...
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitc...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003...
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/0...
http://time.com/3721573/jamaica-pot-m...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/85...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006...