All The Ways Hollywood Keeps Getting Your Life Wrong

Pop culture: good for entertaining us and reinforcing terrible stereotypes.
All The Ways Hollywood Keeps Getting Your Life Wrong

Primarily, pop culture only serves to entertain us and reinforce stereotypes that don't seem to be based in actual reality. That's why today we're going to, hopefully, bust some of those tropes.

(Shoutout to QuintonDarby for the contest suggestion. Hopefully people will stop making assumptions about your life as a pool cleaner now.)

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I come from a Spanish-speaking to family, but I'm not constantly languages. fiesta mixing Depending on who I'm talking to, esta I choose one and stick
BECAUSE I LISTEN TO HEAVY METAL, HOLLYWOOD THINKS I SHOULD BE... DDOD -SLIGHTLY STUPID WHEREAS ACTUALLY, I AM DEGREE-EDUCATED AND RUN MY OWN BUSINESS.
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CRACKED COM H-DEO STALIONJ BEING AN ARTIST MEANS ONE THING: I MAKE ART. It doesn't mean that I dress a certain way - I'm usually in jeans and a sleeve
NEVERMORE I'm a goth. I wear thick black eyeliner and black lipstick. I wear chokers and chains. But I have never once contemplated suicide. Also, I d
SURE, BEING A LINGUIST HELPS YOU DECIPHER STRANGE LINGOES... ...BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE OBSESSED WITH GRAMMAR, SPEAK A GAZILLION LANGUAGES. OR CAN
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CRACKED.COM I'M A COMEDIAN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'M GOING TO BE ON ALL THE TIME. IN MY PERSONAL LIFE, I'M NOT A BIG JOKER.
I'm an adult man who likes anime but I'm not: -a manchild -a fetishizing pervert - a nerdy fanboy I'm just a regular dude CRACKEDCONT
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I don't drive. That does NOT mean I hassle all my friends and family for a ride every time I need to go somewhere.
HOLLywood seems to think that teachers are either a] Neglectful B] Straight up fascists or I just want my students to get good grades and stay out of
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I am a comic book nut who likes to shell out extra cash to buy exclusive variants. And while I have my preferences CI'm a DC kinda guy) I never insult
I'm smart. THAT DOESN'T MAKE ME AN OBNOXIOUS KNOW-IT-ALL WITH NO SOCIAL SKILLS. CRACKED COM

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