Thinking that the USA is far more important than the whole rest of the world put together is a little pill that all American kids are given right from the day they enter 1st Grade, Peace. They are told so again and again and again that they are living in "the greatest country on Earth" and that they have more freedom and liberty and goodness and truth than any other place on Earth. They are brainwashed to go out and help conquer the world, supposedly for its own good! They are constantly being psychologically prepared for the next war. You know how many of their presidents were former generals and military men and how much it helped them get elected that they were? Quite a few. That tells you something. I know about this brainwashing and ethnocentricity firsthand, cos I went to school mostly in the USA. Being an expatriate Canadian, however, I wasn't susceptible to the barrage of political programming directed at us young minds. I questioned what very few of the others did. I knew I was being manipulated. They didn't (although some of them were woken up quite a bit by the protest movement in the 60s).