> Yeah, it turns out most cultures aren't accurately described by popular stereotypes and mass media, and people are pretty much normal everywhere. Yap, over p

> Yeah, it turns out most cultures aren't accurately described by popular stereotypes and mass media, and people are pretty much normal everywhere. Yap, over past few decades the people running the popular media started to drink their own coolaid, and these popular media portraits went on to live their own lives fully detached from the reality. When people on the TV now tell of American elections being totally unpredictable, it's hard to not to notice how the popular sentiment is actually very accurate at predicting the outcome. US elections are basically the anger-meter.