There's nothing wrong with that though, those kinds of statements are implied to be contextual. If it's an American publication, it's fair. The OP comment is

There's nothing wrong with that though, those kinds of statements are implied to be contextual. If it's an American publication, it's fair. The OP comment is not unreasonable - American's are fairly nationally centric by default ... but they generally don't say 'the world' when they mean just America.