A couple ways that movies/culture affect belief

Quick, How many phone calls do you get when you are arrested?

 1
 Right?

I would be willing to bet on that being the answer most of you gave. How do you know this to be true? You see it in every cop drama, tv or movie, ever. Too bad it is false.

Hollywood likes to stick to what works, and the one phone call when you get arrested is a nice way to add tension/restrictions on characters so that they have a hurdle to over come. Turns out though, that most prisons will let you use pay phones all you want, as long as the people you are calling accept the collect charges.

 Another popular thing that movies do to add tension: "We need 30 seconds to trace the call" I am sure as you read that you thought of at least Nope. most calls can be "traced" just by the phone being on. If your cell is on it constantly pings cell towers. All the police have to do is call a cell phone company and they get the data, and with a little math can triangulate the position of the caller.
Boom, they know where you are.
Also, as part of a government/company agreement, the po-po can turn on a cell phone that is off, so if you don't want to get caught throw away your cell phone (or at least pull out the battery and SIM card).

 The last example I want to point out is a little odd.

Would you eat a Tarantula? No? Well, that's not surprising. Gross right? hairy, leggy, squirmy. If you answered that way you probably grew up in a country where protein sources are more cuddly, like cows and pigs, but in areas where those animals are harder to raise (at least as a sole source of protein) people get protein from other sources. Bugs have a lot of protein and are fucking everywhere so getting them isn't really to much of a problem. In fact due to their low carbon footprint and ease of access the UN even suggested more people should do this, as it would be better for the environment and is a lot cheaper than pork beef or chicken. I find a lot of enjoyment in examining the way that culture shapes belief.

It isn't always fun though, sometime you find some fucked up shit. It should not be a surprise that the government manufactures consent, on both sides, but sometimes the flagrancy of it is appalling.

 I started this post wanting to point out amusing ways in which we view reality differently due to environmental/cultural influences, and as I continued I realized that this kind of thing can be dubious, as well as benign. So, I think it would be a good if people read this and thought a little more about sources of information and ideas. Not necessarily just to see when the people in power lie (although that is a pretty nice benefit of doing this) but also to see how much culture effects the people in it.