Because America has such a strong hold over media, especially internet media, and has put a lot of investment into the idea of American exceptionalism, the bias

Because America has such a strong hold over media, especially internet media, and has put a lot of investment into the idea of American exceptionalism, the bias Americans have towards their own country is unbelievably strong. I would argue it is stronger on average than other people's bias in other countries, for those reasons. This leads to a situation where the citizens of the US dissociate their country from things other countries do for no reason other than some inherent concept of "americanness". They think that dividing citizens by class is something only India or China does, they think people living in extreme poverty is different in America because anyone can make it. It's totally irrational and disconnected from the rest of the world.