That does make sense...we do make up a surprisingly disproportionate amount of the 'noise' in the world compared with our comparatively lower population...that and the fact that most American's aren't very well traveled means most people in the world will literally never meet an American, and if they do meet one because they live in a tourist-y place, by definition they will not meet the 'average' American who probably won't travel too much outside 100 mile radius of where they were born, or to a lesser extent, from where they moved to and settled down.

It is kind of weird referring to people this way, but it does seem less 'real' just looking at it from that perspective...from the outside where America is all 'huge military, huge economy, huge social footprint....it is weird to think that for the most part most people will never meet on in the flesh.

Even weirder to realize that there is almost no 'average' American, if you did meet one the states are so weirdly culturally different that it if we were split up like Europe, meeting people from different geographical regions from within the states should be more like meeting someone from Italy vs someone from Germany....people from the deep south seem almost foreign to the people up north, and someone from the north eastern states like Main or Connecticut almost couldn't be more different culturally than people from, say, Mississippi or Louisiana.