The truth is all stereotypes are true. And at the same time they are all false.

What I mean is, whatever picture of any place, or of the way its inhabitants behave, which you've assembled from TV and so forth, you can go there and match it pretty close. And equally well you could demonstrate the reverse.

And another thing, there's a tendency for poeople travelling abroad as tourists to live up to the stereotypes of their country held by the people among whom they are travelling.