Give the lady her due, on her recent visit to India, she came out with a line that is both funny and clever.

"If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me," she said with a tone of understatement. "And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it? People watching a Bollywood movie in some other part of Asia think everybody in India is beautiful and they have dramatic lives and happy endings. And if you were to watch American TV and our movies you'd think that we don't wear clothes and we spend all our time fighting with each other."

World wide perceptions of America are (on the whole) hopelessly inaccurate. You'll frequently hear (often justified) criticism of how ignorant Americans are about the outside world, but it's a lot less common to list the many misconceptions non-Americans have about USA. Heck, when I applied for my job in California, I asked about gun crime in the local area. After all, everyone knows that all Americans have guns and they shoot them off at the slightest provocation. You don't dare walk down the street in case someone decides to take a pot-shot at you in a drive-by shooting. Right? Wrong. Crimes happen everywhere. Just recently 5 people were murdered in their home ... not far from where I used to live in a nice part of Sydney Australia. I live in a nice, friendly, safe neighborhood, and to date I've never seen anyone holding a gun anywhere in Southern California. (Of course, I've seen them in police holsters, but I'm referring to drawn weapons.)
[Update] I've made a liar out of myself. I realize that I have in fact seen one person holding a gun. I know a guy who hunts using a vintage rifle. It's some sort of replica-vintage model similar to what was used to fight the British when the American colonists turned traitor. He let me hold it.