It always crack me up whenever I see someone say that about Americans. Let us see: American businessmen are global travelers, US based humanitarian NGOs are quick to jump into any disaster in the world, the American entertainment industry routinely mine other cultures for ideas, American scientists actively collaborate with their counterparts in every major scientific institutions anywhere in the world, and last but not least, the US military has global presence and has one of the world's largest foreign language schools training both civilians and military personnel. But we are routinely told we are 'ignorant' by someone using the Internet, an American invention at that. Am willing to bet I have traveled more than you have, O Canadian. Am old enough to play tourist in East Berlin when it existed. You? Been outside of your province?
Whenever delusional people like you call Americans 'ignorant' it is not because you have any credible metrics to measure knowledge, experience, and wisdom. Least of all -- wisdom. It is because you
KNOW that everything I said about the US above is true and that by the virtues of knowledge and experience very few people in the world can match US. I know plenty of Brits who have no problems criticizing US but admitted they never even left the island. People like you who call Americans 'ignorant' while knowing their own countries are behind US in many aspects of what make a nation-state 'great' have only one criteria to apply against themselves to the self delusion that they are superior to Americans: That they can only bring up what are our flaws. You convinced yourselves that the more national character flaws you can find in US, the more 'sophisticated' and 'worldly' you are. Never mind that your own countries have their shares of ignorant people.
There is a saying that is so true about snobs who call US 'ignorant', especially applicable to Canadians: Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently knowledgeable about America.
But as far as this particular technical subject goes, am willing to put my (past) arguments about this against any Chinese or even Canadian claims.