So very true. Every foreigner I’ve had occasion to argue with on the internet seems to think the BBC, Guardian, et al, are telling them the truth about world affairs. They assume that I get my news from Fox and Fox only (HA!) and that we are especially fools to be so patriotic. Snort!
More than twenty years ago I realized many foreigners had weird views about what happened in the U.S. I had a girl friend (actually a fiancee..since dissolved...thank God) who had a sister who lived in Germany and who had married a German doctor. Her sister was coming over to Wisconsin to visit with her two children. She made plans to rent a car in Milwaukee and drive to La Crosse, where we lived, a distance of about two hundred miles. Her German husband sternly warned her about driving across the state because countless Americans were shot to death on the highways every day. My ex-fiancee told me this, and after I had got done laughing (it took a while), I told her to tell her sister that her husband, the German doctor, was an ignoramus. I doubt she told her sister those words, but ever since I’ve looked at statements about how much foreigners know about what goes on inside the U.S. with much skepticism.