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* The tendency of Western magazines to portray Africa like this is lampshaded in this satirical article, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111100454/http://www.granta.com/Magazine/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1 "How to Write About Africa"]. Even though some of these things actually do happen, it's not as if all Africans practice genital mutilation or the more extreme things like that.
* The Daily Mail's coverage of a white language teacher in Japan, deconstructed [https://web.archive.org/web/20100127054820/http://www.japanfocus.org/-David_McNeill/2460 here]. While the media coverage described there is clearly out of line, but consider the flood of [[Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl]] movies, and movies like ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266555/ Freeze Me]'' and ''[[Audition]]'', to come out of Japan in the decade starting with the late 1990s. They all involve women who have been victims of some kind of abuse, and there ''is'' a social subtext for these films. And as they come from Japan, they can't be dismissed as the racism of outsiders.
** However, those movies are a distinct minority of the movies made in Japan, and most Japanese know the difference between reality and fiction. Not to say that the sexes are equal in Japan, just that using a country's entertainment to determine reality is risky at best.
* [[Everything2]] presents: [http://everything2.com/title/How+much+for+the+little+girl%253F How much for the little girl?] Which is a big case of [[Did Not Do the Research]]: one of the stories is set in [[Egypt]], which is one of the more liberal and developed countries in North Africa.
* Anywhere controlled by the Taliban.
** [[Afghanistan]] has only gotten ''worse'' since they've been ousted, as the economic destabilization has put forced marriages and forced prostitution on the rise.
*** And then they regained power and immediately broke the promises they made about women being allowed some rights.
* [[Iraq]] has become this since the Iraq
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* South [[Asia]] as mentioned, ''especially'' [[India]].{{context}}
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