Counterpoint: http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/stats/stats_890.html http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/stats/stats_890.html The US citizens you hang out

Counterpoint: http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/stats/stats_890.html http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/stats/stats_890.html The US citizens you hang out with, sure. And certainly, a lot of US citizens I know now are well-traveled as well. But I moved away from an area in central Pennsylvania where there were families who had lived in the same county since the 1600s. Friends who had, by their mid-twenties, never gone so far as New York, let alone across a national border. It's certainly a mistake to think that all Americans are ignorant and sheltered, and it's great to see that more and more Americans have passports, but it's still very accurate to say that Americans are mostly untraveled.