The same thing happened to me when talking to friends of me who are exchange students from china (i am from central europe). They were extremely smart but they

The same thing happened to me when talking to friends of me who are exchange students from china (i am from central europe). They were extremely smart but they could not understand political activism or why anyone would ever engage in that let alone be interested in politics. But of course the sample size here is n=2, not really enough to draw conclusions at all.