History NationalStereotypes / Asia

* All Indian movies are, of course, UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movies. They will all be made in Bombay and feature a lot of young Indian men and women singing and dancing to a catchy and hypnotizing beat. The stories are usually romances, but the musical numbers are more important. In fact: the couples hardly every kiss each other! Usually the woman will sing in a very high pitched voice. Everything always has a bad acoustic echo to it and seems to be recorded on a scratchy soundtrack.

* Japan are known for their video games, with them pulling North America out of UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 and ruling the gaming industry from the '80s to early 2000s with two of the three major console makers, Nintendo and Sony, being based there (though Sony moved their console division to the US in 2016) as well as another former major console maker, Sega, and many other big gaming companies like Square-Enix and Capcom. While their influence on the industry has majorly declined since the late 2000s relative to North America and Europe, they still remain one of the biggest developers of video games.

* A characteristic of British people contemplating former colonies in the East is that they'll stick to the old names and wonder why the natives had to go around confusing everybody by ''changing'' them. Perhaps younger Brits are more likely to use terms like ''Mumbai, Kolkata, Madras, Sri Lanka''; but many (perhaps older) people think "Stuff ''that'', they've always been Bombay, Calcutta, Chennai, Ceylon, and I'm not changing for change' sake!"

* Iranians are commonly mistaken for Arabs and receive the same treatment. When someone does bother to note the difference, Persians (the men, anyway) will be stereotyped similarly to the so-called Guidos. Think tacky "club" outfits with lots of gold chains, hair gel, cheap cologne, over-priced designer sunglasses, etc. (''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' did a version of this in their ''300'' spoof, with ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' also making fun of this) plus a white BMW. Certain Arabs such as Egyptians and Lebanese also share this stereotype. The track-suit "jock" variant of Guidos isn't usually associated with Persians quite as often, however. There's also the over-zealous Shi'a Muslim guy in the street, whipping himself until he draws blood (although it's actually illegal in Iran) stereotype, but that tends to overlap with Arab stereotypes.
* Iran's western neighbors -- particularly the Arabs -- regard them as stuck-up know-it-alls who [[CulturalPosturing aren't willing to give credit where credit is due]]. The Iranians, for their part, tend to regard the Arabs and the Turkic peoples as somewhat barbaric fools, who [[WhileYouWereInDiapers were still nomadic nobodies at the time that Persia ruled everywhere]].