Americans take a lot of flack for not knowing much about other countries, but do other countries not know as much about the U.S. as they may think?

I recently went to Israel and as I was talking to people my age, it struck me that they really didn’t know much about American culture. Pretty much their whole idea of American culture was based on what they’ve seen in movies, and they thought that all Americans were beer drinking, gun toting Republicans. When I told them that that’s just a stereotype, they were astounded.