About 25% of Americans have passports, and most Americans don't even get the vacation time allowed to go anywhere for more than one week at a time, whereas Europeans get five or six weeks a year!!!
Hence the complete and utter dumbness and ignorance of your average American, the laughing stock of the western world when he or she opens with their ignorant clueless mouth!!!
Conservatives would like to keep it this way, to keep us all in the belief that Europe is the nasty communist evil empire!!!
An Arab said to me the other day, that 9/11 had one positive thing, in that Americans could now point to a country on the map they actually knew about.......LOL!!!