Mosh Pot Of Ideas

I thought the movie, "Do You Speak American" was an interesting video.  My father was born in Florida and raised in different parts of the south.  I have noticed from different television shows that have people from the south there is often a stereotype that is attached to them.  For example MTV has a show called 16 and Pregnant and most of the girls that are on the show are from the south.  I feel that MTV portrays these girls as being stupid.  That because of the small southern towns that the girls live in that they don't know how to use contraception to prevent pregnancy.  I was talking to my father about this idea and he agreed and said that it makes good television, people who have accents especially southern accents people assume are not intelligent.  This made me wonder what do people from the south think about people from California? When they hear our accents do they assume we are all proper and well educated?  I believe that we often jump to conclusions about a person and automatically judge them by the way that they speak.  If they have a British accent, are they speaking proper English? If we hear someone from New Jersey do we assume that they are all fist pumping idiots (like the show Jersey Shore)?
I often wonder different accents have these stereotypes behind them.  Not everyone from California surfs, has bleach blond hair and super tan skin.  A few years ago I went to Europe and France with my family and I often wondered what the people assumed about me because of the way I spoke.  I was told from a friend that the French are extremely rude and can just look at you and tell that you are American by the way you are dressed but I thought the complete opposite.  Everyone in Europe and France that I went to were extremely nice and helpful.  They were also very patient in France because no one in my family spoke the language.  It makes me wonder where the stereotype of the French being rude started? 

Below are two videos. One about speaking english and the other about speaking Ebonics (steve harvey)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUEkOVdUjHc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxGFAnY4nI