Stereotyping countries

“Have you noticed that after Ahmadinejad’s win, all of a sudden Iran has become the country of praying old women in chador for the media? … A few years before it was all about how young the population is and how this has affected the whole country in its values, behaviour and mood … I wonder how the Traditional life in Iran would look like.”

I can see Hossein Derakhshan’s point. However, this isn’t unique to Iran. The media stereotypes many countries in large part around their leader - look at international and domestic representations of George W Bush’s America, for instance. The full post, from Editor: Myself, is here.