While that is true, people still don't factor the states into their everyday thoughts and calculations. Also, note that most of the author's examples weren't f

While that is true, people still don't factor the states into their everyday thoughts and calculations. Also, note that most of the author's examples weren't from west Europe, but rather more remote places and especially "third world" countries. Basically, places that Americans tend to assume people either hate them or love them(see: china, or east asia in general, or the middle east, etc, etc)