Take Finland, the most happiest country in the world. Normal people don’t know where it is on the map. If you go and see the map you will smile it was not in the place you thought. It is next to Russia. A small country sits next to the elephant and is always in danger. It’s like an ant sleeping next to the standing elephant. You start learning about the country and how special their language is.
First come to our mind how we imagined this country in the map,may be we would have thought it would sit next to Germany or France but when you find it in the map you feel thrilled about the location of Finland in the map.
We always have a notion about English people in their movies about their rude behaviour and that’s how it was depicted in their Movies but when I met some people after the seminars and their behaviour was gentle and awesome, it was a new experience to me about their contented life. The image we carry on them by seeing their movies is not the one they carry but may be a small portion may follow and do so.
A journalist from America came to our cities and I met him through my friends and we had a chat about literature and he asked me, the perception of Indians is properly known as they avoid girl children by aborting or killing. And he told most of the girl child death happens in India. Hence I took him to a few of my friend’s houses who have a girl child and after seeing them how they treated their children as princess he apologized for the remark he made.
My turn I asked him about the treatment of blacks and racism in America. He argued, nothing like that we made a Black as a President for two consecutive terms. Hence there is no racism, maybe one or two events that were made public by news channels to get mileage.
We never know about any of the foreign countries unless we visit and have first hand information. To be frank we don’t know where they appear on the map. Write down a few countries and check on the map you feel jazzed their location with your believed location. Both never match and the same as our perception about them.