![Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing when you reverse it. Much of Africa is presented through poverty, through drought and war. [But] you're not presenting people, you're not presenting countries, you're not presenting complexity, and so people can't care about an amorphous mass called Africa.](/assets/img/quote-photos/much-of-the-image-of-the-amazingness-of-america-comes-from-the-movies-into-other.jpg)
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