Prejudice about China

As you know, I really love Chine. Yet, actually I don’t know much about China. I learned China’s physical features, economy, politics, and environment, etc in CORE class.
I have been learned Chinese history for almost 6or 7 years. So I know about Chinese history, maybe. When I was a junior high school student, I was not interested in China and any other Asian countries at all. I had a lot of interests in western or American culture. So I had a lot of stereotype on China at that time.
For example, I believed that there are a lot of bamboo forests in China and many Giant Pandas live in there. There are no deserts and also no modern cities. People live in very big but wild area. Many people live with cows and no machine in there etc.
However it was strongly wrong!!!!! There are few Giant Pandas in China. They are so rare creatures that need to be protected. And there ate huge deserts and many modern cities in China, actually. Many people cultivate their farm and use many machines. I was so stupid fellow!!!!! I thought no knowledge is really intimidating.
Now I don’t have so much knowledge about China yet but I have a lot of Chinese friends in AIU. And I am learning about China and Chinese from them almost every day. I hope I can understand the country more and more. And I wish I can visit China someday absolutely!!