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I'm an American. There's many metrics for measuring this. Frequency of international travel is up for Americans, even normalized for immigration. The consumpt

I'm an American. There's many metrics for measuring this. Frequency of international travel is up for Americans, even normalized for immigration. The consumption of foreign media such as anime kpop and bollywood films is up. Classic white Americans have also become more multilingual and their cuisine choices have diversified. It's not great but it's up from a baseline of terrible where people would be asked to point to England on a map and then point to, say, Japan or shown some Hangul text and think it's Farsi. They're not quite that awful anymore.

Garvi 3y ago
I'm familiar with the PISA study as being an objective measurement for what you're describing. If I remember correctly the US scored somewhere in the middle of the field, just above Croatia (technically a 3rd world country, as when it was part of Yugoslavia it was also part of the Non-aligned movement during the cold war or 3rd world. The phrase was later turned into a derogatory term by some pretty crafty spin doctors). I remember the US getting constantly humiliated on the study and stopped taking it. I also remember it being a big thing here in the EU. Pretty much all national TV channels were covering their respective scores. That was some time ago and I do believe you might be right and that things have improved dramatically. However how does one track this now-a-days? I tried the PISA website, but it seems to have been mostly discontinued, as the last published survey seems to be from 2018. So I'm basically looking for a source that compares education objectively by country with recent data.