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You might have misread a bit. I believe the author is trying to point out that people in other countries don't think about America on a daily basis. They just go on about their lives trying to make a living. Even with the consumption of products which originated in America, people don't really care where it came from.

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Wooden chair is pointing out that daily is not a good benchmark. People do not think of any foreign country daily.

A more targeted way of discovering which country is the most prominent worldwide would be to have people list the 5 countries that they think about the most often, weight the responses based on their rank in the list, and tally them up.

People's home country and neighboring countries would be on top, but asking people from all over would smooth that out. The top scoring answer should be geographically neutral.

I disagree openforce - I think the point of the author's piece first and foremost was to be provocative; not to speak about people's day to day lives. I dispute some of the provocative claims he's making.

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