I'm an American living in an urban society, and there is lots of stuff I don't know about Indian culture. I don't think it's all that unrealistic. A lot of Americans are ignorant about the things that go on in other countries, so why would Indians be any different? We have stereotypes for Indians, and Chinese people, and Japanese people, and German people, because that is often the only way we are exposed to those people, through the stereotypes that the media feeds us. I have never been to Japan, and I don't know anyone who is a real part of their culture, so unless I go out of my way to study Japanese culture I remain ignorant. I feel like it probably isn't that different for someone on the other end. If a person in India has only been exposed to the U.S. culture through a limited media experience, which is often the case, then how can they really understand it at all? While ignorance is an evil, it is an inevitable one. There are very few people in this world who are truly worldly and well versed in all ways.   See 73 other replies