"My interaction with Americans has not been in a professional setting, but my opinion of them is that they're very unknowledgeable about things happening outsid

"My interaction with Americans has not been in a professional setting, but my opinion of them is that they're very unknowledgeable about things happening outside their country" My interaction with my fellow non-American countrymen is that many of them not only are not interested in what happens outside their country, but also what happens INSIDE, unless this somewhat affects them directly (say, taxes rise). Of course an equal number of them are knowledgeble and really concerned about what happens in our country, and the rest of the world. And probably there are hundreds of variations beetween these two extremes. My hunch is that it's the same more or less everywhere around the world, US included. It's just naive to try to condense millions of people in a single (or two, or three) stereotype.