Why are so many Americans ill-informed about world events?

I'm not trying to be rude here, but I often find that Americans have relatively less knowledge about world events than other nationalities.

Do American newspapers, news programmes etc concentrate more on domestic stories, or is there another explanation?

(i.e: somebody asked about visting Croatia and the first 2 responses were questioning his/her sanity because of it being "war-torn"!)

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American news services have become political in nature and selectively report the news to their customers.

Their focus is to sell papers and TV advertising, not to report the truth.

As a result, Americans believe what is told them. It is easy and requires no effort on their part.

So what you know depends on who you listen to.

Why are so many Americans ill-informed about world events?violin opera theaterI quest some people feel that it's not important to them. Report It |||Because they couldn't care less. They are busy with their own world. I'm not generalizing, but most of the time, Americans have this attitude that they are the best people in the world and other countries are just small pigments that don't really matter. Or perhaps they're busy with making money because of course you would agree that money is more important than hearing news from the other parts of the world.

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Why are so many Americans ill-informed about world events?

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