Well, many Americans are ignorant and arrogant, yes, including the educated kind, like those white trash in my MBA program.

Not only do Americans make fun of non-white people, they also do that to Europeans and Canadians.

Let's just say that, unlike people in Taiwan, who had to study world history and geography in junior high, Americans do not have to take subjects such as History and Geography because they are only electives.

That's why many Americans don't know about their own history and geography, much less that of other countries.

To many Americans, they are the world. That's why they call their Major League Baseball final "the World Series", their NBA Champion "the World Champion"