It's a continuation of a discussion in another thread. He brought it here to avoid derailing it.
Anyway, to make a long story short: About 15% of all people are idiots. The U.S. have quite a large population, so they have more idiots than many others. Be thankful that media coverage from Asia isn't as extensive as it could be, or we'd all run around talking about what idiots the Indians and Chinese are.
