Comment by sourcepluck

Did no-one else cringe at the gargantuan oversimplifications necessary to keep this alleged cultural distinction afloat?

Was no-one else a little queasy seeing a U.S. person talk about the entire continent of Asia - pushing towards 4.8 billion people - as if they were an easily generalisable singular entity?

Seems utterly nuts to me. Perhaps it's related to the feeling U.S. people sometimes seem to have that they aren't just the centre of the world, but actually in some sense literally the whole world. Or something else, I don't know.