As a non-north-american I can empathize, but I believe the main reason for that is simply these news outlets are from the US, so naturally they'll use that fram

As a non-north-american I can empathize, but I believe the main reason for that is simply these news outlets are from the US, so naturally they'll use that frame of reference. Down here in Brazil news outlets will compare stuff to Brazil. The fact we are reading English news probably accounts for a good part of that bias.