Partially true, but that's not the whole story. Speaking as a non-American, I'd attribute another chunk of it to the fact that most USAns don't travel outside t

Partially true, but that's not the whole story. Speaking as a non-American, I'd attribute another chunk of it to the fact that most USAns don't travel outside their own continent (where they've got Canada and Mexico and the Carribean islands with which to engage with "the rest of the world" if so inclined). With the partial exceptions of Mexico (the war on drugs) and Cuba (the war on Fidel Castro's beard), there's not much call for spying in those countries; the pool of US citizens with some degree of acculturation to truly foreign societies is comparatively small compared to those folks who live in places where you can drive 100 miles and cross two borders and three language barriers.