America doesn't care what goes on in the world

Way back in one of my original posts I made the statement that 'America has more internet users, more forums, more blogs, more news channels than anywhere else' in light of claims from European media outlets about 'How can 61 million Americans be so dumb?' after the election.

Well also throw into that mix the fact they have military bases all around the globe (which are quite right-leaning I might add) with American military members stationed there frequently writing home, and also the fact they have embassies all over the globe, one starts to think that Americans just might be fairly knowledgeable creatures when it comes to the world.

Of course - America by itself is a large place with many things going on, each state is like it's own country. It would be hard enough knowing what is going on in their own country let alone the world, but despite the stereotype, Americans are very worldly people.

I was checking out the statistics of my site and I found the following:

Visitors by domain:
48% of my visitors are from a .net, .com, .gov, or .edu domain.
28% of my visitors are from a .co.nz domain.
19% are from an IP address.
5% are from other places.

As you can see Europeans have no excuse for calling Americans ignorant about the rest of the world. If anything, Europeans should be doing more reaching out.
Indeed Americans are reaching out past their shores to these strange other worlds, and it is up to us to welcome them.

It's the least we can do.