Americans truly are isolated within their own country...

Neither of them needed the Falklands. Argentina only invaded to distract attention from their ****** economy and Britain only fought back so fiercely to cling onto some pathetic Imperial identity. Pointless war where thousands died pointlessly

Nice.

See above post.

In terms of land mass prehaps not, but historically and culturally, the US and South America have far more in common than the UK does with most Asian countries. And as I've said before, when it suits the US, they definitely do exercise their perceived right in South America, but only when it suits.

Lmao, an inflame thread, <3 them.

every industrial country's people tend to lose themselves in their own endeavors and worry less and less about international politics and conflict.

I agree that a great deal of under-middle class america are politically dumb-- this doesn't mean one can generalize the entire nation as being 'isolated'. Less than 3% of foreign books are actually translated into english per year here, as opposed to the UK who's total output for translation of foreign books are about 8-9%.
42th in literacy in the world. When I was in grade school, most of the material i got was almost always sympathetic to America of course, and a lot of it wasn't really detailed to be considered accurate--this was during elementary to junior high.
It's understandable that diversity in understanding different cultures, and world history in america is some what of an issue, but it is by no means 'fact' that citizens of america are entirely ignorant about international conflicts like in Cyprus, or in Sirlanka; there's no real disconnect from the outside world since academic criteria is readily available to those who want to learn. Your rant is presumably due to america's worship of the entertainment business and the private ownership business that create social institutions where under-middle class americans are totally focused on. Making that money is a lot more important than reading a novel by salman rushdie for example. Though it's a tired and over exaggerated canard on your part, I can see how such an isolated rant can be made.
Canards like this are simply laughable, acceptable criticism by me though very funny.

42th doesn't seem to be working out too well does it

It's not 42th. It's 19 as is the UK.

42th doesn't seem to be working out too well does it

Don't laugh, you're not that far ahead.

Americans strike me as very much an isolated country as far as their exposure to foreign events goes. If an event doesn't directly affect Americans, the mass American media has absolutely no interest in reporting it, and 90% of Americans appear to have absolutely no interest in researching it.

However, if you tell Americans they're effectively an isolationist country, they'll get very annoyed and bang on about the aid they give countries, and how hey "liberated" Iraq and Afghanista, but what people fail to realise is just because your country invades backward ********* like Iraq and Afghanistan and throws money at backward ********* in Africa doesn't make your people any less isolated. And actually, more monitary aid to the third world goes throught he EU than US, but that's another story...

What I still find absolutely astounding it the amount of Americans who have no idea that the Falklands War took place, I know it doesn't concern them at all, but I find it nothing short of astonishing that 95% of Americans were blissfully unaware that in the 80s a large scale armed conflict was taking place between the UK and Argentina on their own contitinent, albeit at the other end of their continent. But it just shocks me how Americans can be oblivious to events taking place on their own continent that are quite significant.

I'm sure I'll be shot down for this, called a racist, but there are plenty of example of American isolation. I'd defiantely call the whole country extremely self-centric and isolationist.

It's not 42th. It's 19 as is the UK.

Don't laugh, you're not that far ahead.

Point. Also. Missed.

Americans strike me as very much an isolated country as far as their exposure to foreign events goes. If an event doesn't directly affect Americans, the mass American media has absolutely no interest in reporting it, and 90% of Americans appear to have absolutely no interest in researching it.

However, if you tell Americans they're effectively an isolationist country, they'll get very annoyed and bang on about the aid they give countries, and how hey "liberated" Iraq and Afghanista, but what people fail to realise is just because your country invades backward ********* like Iraq and Afghanistan and throws money at backward ********* in Africa doesn't make your people any less isolated. And actually, more monitary aid to the third world goes throught he EU than US, but that's another story...

What I still find absolutely astounding it the amount of Americans who have no idea that the Falklands War took place, I know it doesn't concern them at all, but I find it nothing short of astonishing that 95% of Americans were blissfully unaware that in the 80s a large scale armed conflict was taking place between the UK and Argentina on their own contitinent, albeit at the other end of their continent. But it just shocks me how Americans can be oblivious to events taking place on their own continent that are quite significant.

I'm sure I'll be shot down for this, called a racist, but there are plenty of example of American isolation. I'd defiantely call the whole country extremely self-centric and isolationist.

Wiki has a condensed version of the national standard, but it's 42th speaking globally-- that means 193 countries.