john eden
male pale and stale
This is why the media is so powerful, because it substitutes for personal experiences. If you've never met a socialist, for example, your view of socialism is going to come from whatever media portrayals you encounter (since most people haven't the time or inclination to start reading marx/ist literature).
Also true of social media. Very hard to build bridges there although perhaps the parallel there could be "seems to have a decent sense of humour / taste in music so I will put up with the occasional bit of climate change moaning"