Indophobia in the United States is due attempts by extremists to undermine US-India cooperation, as well as myths and misconceptions propagated on the Internet.

Some people still do not believe that AIDS is real, citing rumors that it is a myth propagated by people in Western/European countries who don't want Africans to have more children.

However, Lethbridge criticized it as "a 'myth' propagated by xenophobic Cantonese to account for the establishment of the Hong Kong Eurasian community".

And the claim that overpopulation causes deforestation is another myth propagated by the World Bank and its friends to shift the blame from themselves to their victims.

But this was a myth propagated by the Victorians.

He laughed and said it wasn't true that people bitten by vampires become vampires themselves; that's a foul myth propagated by envious creatures.

This was one of several useful myths propagated by the men who overthrew Ceauşescu, but was widely believed by Romanians, who knew from experience that Romania housed thousands of young, unattached Arab 'students'.

However, alternate theories regard the yield protection as a myth propagated by college students who failed to gain admission to elite universities.

The National myths (sometimes referred to as Nationalistic myths or Nationalist myths) are myths created and propagated by national intellectuals who use them as instrument of political mobilization on the basis of ethnicity.

His report, published throughout Europe in 1924, dispelled the myth, carefully propagated by Lenin's Government, that only the Emperor had been shot in 1918, and that his family had fled to safety.