It's not just Americans, look at what's happening in England right now after Brexit. Most people have a very shallow understanding of where things come from. Ask them where their phone came from and they'll say it was made in China but that's not the whole truth. I had this argument with an individual who claimed to be "anti-collectivist" whatever the fuck that means. He claimed he wanted to live in a society where everyone was free to be individuals. I retorted that in this current age of manufacture its impossible. I said, if you want to truly independent then try to build a computer from scratch, and I don't mean from off the shelf components. I mean, fabricate every component from scratch. He responded that's impossible because I don't have the resources to build the ICs and dies required. I said then you can't be anti-collectivist because you exist as a member of a collective that produces products that are readily available for you to consume, you are therefore as much a member of the collective as anyone else, if you want to go be an individual then give up technology and live off the land.