Films, books and television programs can teach you a lot about those who dwell in the world outside yours.
If you're an American of a certain age, you probably learned from one or more of these sources that Frenchmen carry baguettes atop their berets, and Italians gesticulate wildly even as they pinch girls' bottoms. And if you're Japanese, you probably learned from your films, books and television programs that people who live overseas are all pretty much the same in wanting to cause you grief.
From the '70s through the '90s, "kaigai roke" (overseas location) films typically showed Japanese globetrotters experiencing a full itinerary of victimizations at the hands of the natives.