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Name a country, ethnic group and culture that you believe doesn't get represented by popular media.

I choose Hungary. I'm Hungarian myself and very proud of my culture. It's such a beautiful country that contains a lot of much interesting folklore, food, music, history and traditions. I get that it's a rather obscure, Eastern-European country, but I'm still bummed down with how little exposure it gets. The only kind of exposure we gets nowadays is via the news media, which does everything to make us look bad, because of our politics.
 Name a country, ethnic group and culture that you believe doesn't get represented by popular media.
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Ah, Hungary. I checked out a Marshall Cavendish book on the country :)
CokeTheUmbreon posted over a year ago
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Windwakerguy430 said:
Canadians. No, seriously
How come there doesn't exist a piece of work that is 100% Canadian. I know you could mistake it for American, but the most Canadian representation I ever see are cartoon stereotypes and a few Youtube channels that review games
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Well you have a ton of Canadian music artists. Many that are pretty popular but I agree. I thought of Canada as well.
BlindBandit92 posted over a year ago
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You're right. There's many great musical talent in Canada. And Bryan Adams
Windwakerguy430 posted over a year ago
zanhar1 said:
The Maldives.
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Nick3600 said:
smurfs
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XD
CokeTheUmbreon posted over a year ago
BlindBandit92 said:
Are you kidding me? The vast majority of ethnicities,cultures,countries don't. Like 95% or more. Naming one is just a drop in a bucket.
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Yeah lol this
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Nuri__ said:
Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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uploaded900 said:
El Salvador
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ThePrincesTale said:
Blind's already pointed out that 95% of cultures aren't represented.

Just wanna reinforce the point with an example: You might say "Oh African culture doesn't get represented enough". And you'd be right but also wrong on one point, because there's not one "African culture". Africa is the most culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse region in the world. Take a look at link. Each of those ethnicities are likely as culturally different to each other as European countries are to each other. Not one of them gets represented in popular media.

Another example: besides Borat, do you EVER hear anything about Central Asian countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrzygstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan?

EDIT example 3: Not only does "Pakistani culture" not get represented, but it's sorta mental how many cultures there are within Pakistan. We don't realise due to map distortion, but the country's as big as half of Europe and has more ethnicities. I put together a small graphic here link

India even MORE so. Fun fact about India: North Indian languages are more closely linguistically related to Swedish, English, Greek, French (which are part of the "Indo-European" language family) than they are to South Indian lanaguges (which are part of the Dravidian language family).

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I don't think Westerners, particularly Westerners from colonised "New World" countries like the US or Australia, appreciate how much ethnic diversity there is WITHIN Asian and African countries.
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Right. That's why I think if you think about this question critically. It's kind of silly if you have a decent amount of social studies knowledge.
BlindBandit92 posted over a year ago
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Added another example because I couldn't help myself lol. I love social studies lmao. Wish I got to study some at uni
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
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I agree it's been ages since I have even heard the words Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan...I almost feel like these countries don't even exist...duh
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CokeTheUmbreon said:
I can name tons, but I'm gonna name a few: the Surinamese, a lotta ethnicities known in Russia...


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Mollymolata said:
Liechtenstein, San Marino
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pinkbloom said:
Africa is always there on the list cause it's such a diverse continent and believe me we only know about handful of African culture whereas there are almost uncountable ethnic and linguistic group which aren't in the spotlight and on whom media rarely highlights. Take Ethiopia for example

South-American countries are really diverse and hold a wide range of ethnicity. Linguistic groups in Peru and Bolivia need more attention.

Few South-East Asian countries as well. Kazakhstan, Maldives, Burma, Philippines....

And it's almost like a never-ending list.
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