If you're going to exclude purchasing products from an entire nation based on perceived issues of "mentality", you'd better ditch all of your American goods:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-18/gm-recall...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-18/gm-recall...
That article about GM says nothing about how the US public thinks about whistleblowing, does it? Could be wrong but I think they generally respect it.