I am an American and have lived most of my life in the US, but I have lived overseas for the last 12 years.
My experience is that Americans are very insular and do not know much about other countries because American-owned new media focuses on US stories, most major social media sites are American-owned and overwhelmingly populated with other Americans, etc.
Americans are insulated simply because the information sectors they have access to are dominated by American businesses. Hell, even the Internet itself is American. (This is the same reason that non-American countries are also overwhelmed by American issues/news/culture.)
It is not because Americans think they are superior, and it does not cause Americans to think they are superior. Degree of insulation and sense of superiority are independent variables, and Americans (especially middle-aged and younger) are actually quite low on the sense-of-superiority scale — certainly way, way lower than most Europeans in my experience. (This is not intended as a slight against Europeans; you have very good reasons to prefer Europe to the US.)
Every American I know has serious complaints about the US and is acutely aware that other countries leave the US in the dust in several of areas, including (though certainly not limited to) healthcare. There are of course some nationalist extremists out there who will argue otherwise, and they can be especially noisy on the internet because that is the nature of extremists, but these are not the average people you meet walking down an American street.
Most Americans may not know the ins and outs of other countries' healthcare systems, and therefore may not speak in any detail about those systems on American media sites like this one, but that isn't because they think theirs is the best. They may not ponder the ways that Estonia or Germany has the better healthcare system, but that's because they would be over the moon for anything half as good as either of them.
The USA's political flaws unfortunately run very deep and are in no way the fault of the modern American people. The US Constitution is a very old, very hard-to-change document that was designed primarily to make the US government as stable as possible — at the cost of responsiveness to democratic will.
Basically all of the genuine democracies (I am not talking about dictatorships that larp as democracies) created after American democracy were designed to correct the flaws of the US Constitution: the first-past-the-post voting system, the extreme difficulty of adding amendments, etc. That's why they have nice things.
My experience is that Americans are very insular and do not know much about other countries because American-owned new media focuses on US stories, most major social media sites are American-owned and overwhelmingly populated with other Americans, etc.
Americans are insulated simply because the information sectors they have access to are dominated by American businesses. Hell, even the Internet itself is American. (This is the same reason that non-American countries are also overwhelmed by American issues/news/culture.)
It is not because Americans think they are superior, and it does not cause Americans to think they are superior. Degree of insulation and sense of superiority are independent variables, and Americans (especially middle-aged and younger) are actually quite low on the sense-of-superiority scale — certainly way, way lower than most Europeans in my experience. (This is not intended as a slight against Europeans; you have very good reasons to prefer Europe to the US.)
Every American I know has serious complaints about the US and is acutely aware that other countries leave the US in the dust in several of areas, including (though certainly not limited to) healthcare. There are of course some nationalist extremists out there who will argue otherwise, and they can be especially noisy on the internet because that is the nature of extremists, but these are not the average people you meet walking down an American street.
Most Americans may not know the ins and outs of other countries' healthcare systems, and therefore may not speak in any detail about those systems on American media sites like this one, but that isn't because they think theirs is the best. They may not ponder the ways that Estonia or Germany has the better healthcare system, but that's because they would be over the moon for anything half as good as either of them.
The USA's political flaws unfortunately run very deep and are in no way the fault of the modern American people. The US Constitution is a very old, very hard-to-change document that was designed primarily to make the US government as stable as possible — at the cost of responsiveness to democratic will.
Basically all of the genuine democracies (I am not talking about dictatorships that larp as democracies) created after American democracy were designed to correct the flaws of the US Constitution: the first-past-the-post voting system, the extreme difficulty of adding amendments, etc. That's why they have nice things.