Obviously you've never seen Jesus Camp.
Holy blanket statement, Batman!
That may be true for some people, but in my opinion, it's not just that we're not interested. I think it's a location thing. Americans are SO isolated. We live in this gigantic country with 50 states. Many of these states are bigger than a European country. Hell, the entire island of Great Britain can easily fit inside the state that I live in with 7,000 sq mi to spare. I would say that Americans are just as informed about the states surrounding them as Europeans are about the countries surrounding them. It's just that Europeans get to say they're more cultured, because they happen to be countries, not states. Seriously, though, I feel like I'm missing out on the world because I'm stuck in the middle of the USA and all there is here is farms, snow, and lakes.
As for Mika not being popular, well, I agree with what was originally said about males having to be strong and masculine and can't be feminine at all. After all, our country was built by cowboys and frontiersmen, so that's what we look to as the ideal man. A Davy Crockett kinda guy