That's a popular stereotype, and as with all stereotypes has some validity, but it's hyperbolic and exaggerated.
Here: India in blue including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but excluding disputed territories, and Germany in Green.
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Want to play another round? And yes we Americans are very insular, like the rest of the world. We care most about our nation.
You get the coverage you look for. We have a vibrant media landscape with outlets covering every nation, every slat and every viewpoint. From RT to CCTV, The Guardian to Breitbart, Al Jazeera to NDTV. We offer whatever you want and yes, India gets coverage. It's just up to you to find it.
CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, that's not the depth of the US media landscape. If you want coverage of India, there's an outlet willing to accommodate. The major outlets do cover India too, BTW.
South Asia actually. Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh round out the South Asian sub-continent.
Would you like me to highlight them on a map too?
It's not the rule of law, but the vibrancy of investigations, a distrust of government that makes people question the official narrative, a culture of leaks - as Trump and Obama had grappled with that outed everything from the mundane to the criminal - and people's interest in information. The rule of law is often trumped by personal ethics, especially in regards to governmental leaks, such as those of policy drafts, conversations and the like.
Chelsea Manning leaked information to WikiLeaks out of ethical concerns for cover-ups in the military, as well as leaking mundane diplomatic information. It wasn't the rule of law, but ethical concerns.
The rule of law sentenced Manning to prison time, while the rule of law also pardoned her.
Cover-ups happen too, often for years before some journalist, concerned government worker, happened passerby or government looking to clean-house leaks the information or comes clean. I'd wager cover-ups are ongoing as we sit here and write, and they'll be made evident one day too... or maybe not.
I'm an American citizen, educated in the United States at both a primary and collegiate level, a product of the infamously terrible US education system, the world you're offering is not representative of "most Americans". It is, in your own words a "puffed up make-belief world"
True many of us simply don't care one way or another about outside concerns, like Hinduism, and I'll profess an ignorance on the matter, but that doesn't mean we haven't heard of it either, we have our interests. I doubt you could give a qualitative rundown of our government, which is a matter of interest to many Americans. It doesn't mean that cover-ups don't happen because we have evidence to the contrary. Or we're really that bad at geography, we even make helpful maps to soothe our short-attention spans while simultaneously educating us. Helping us remember where countries are, and reinforcing our stereotypes about them.
But your views are hyperbolic. Instead of offering another to ask Americans on this forum to confirm your views, why don't you ask Americans on this forum and see if your views match with their reality?
You'll find we're more well versed then you'd otherwise think.