Is it easy to misinform Americans about other countries b/c most can't find them or learn about them?

I mean we have people who honestly think that no other country besides America has freedom a long life expectancy, education and a high standard of living, when this is the case in Canada, all of Western Europe, Australia, NZ, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and other places. How ignorant can you be to think that the entire world outside of America is socialist, that all their health care is abysmal, that there are no other free nations besides America? Is this what happens when it becomes socially acceptable to not be able to find even your own country on a map? Seriously, why is it so easy to convince the average American that his is the only country with freedom and quality health care on this Earth? Are there people stupid enough to think that Australians are living in a Third-World country, that Kiwis on average only live to be 40, that France is a communist nation where private enterprise is forbidden completely, that the Irish are starving and have no freedom of press, that Switzerland does not allow its citizens to defend themselves? Where does this ignorance of the outside world come from? What kind of uneducated person thinks that only America has freedom and prosperity and that the outside world is all socialist and backwards?