Their suprise is akin to people asking Shakira how she can be light complected and blonde when all our textbooks showed pictures of dark skinned indigenous people.
It all boils down to exposure, it's not unusual for Americans to be ignorant of other cultures because of the expanse of our country and people's limited experience outside their community. Americans are derided for this by many indignant immigrants. The same indignant immigrants who don't understand how I can be a European mutt (Euro-trash) because they came from relatively homogenous countries such as Mexico, Middle East, Japan, etc.
Anyone can argue the point, but it just shows me that people are the same all over the world; some are narrow, some are more open. That's all, no condemnation.
Reminds me of when I went to Brasil, everyone wanted to know about the beautiful topless women! Sorry, never saw a single topless woman in 17 beach-bound days....in Northern Brasil.
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