Like Evil said, there's a mix of 'both ends of the spectrum', here... For the most-part, you can pretty-much blame Hollywood and much of the commercial-side of the music-industry for the
* / entitled-attitude culture
but even larger, I think one reason there's much 'Americentricity' is that most Americans don't ever get the chance to
experience the world, beyond what they 'learn' about it, as-filtered thru the eye of American tv... very-few, comparatively, get to really 'see' the world...
...and I don't mean 'see' as in spending 10 days on a tour bus in the EU
or a week in China between hotel and conference-room on a biz-trip, etc, I mean *living* or at least spending extended-amount of time,
immersed in another culture(s) to really begin to get to 'know' the rest of the world, as it is, outside of the US-context... *that's* when many Americans are able to develop a 'balanced' attitude, and not see their own world as so 'great'... Then-again, there will always-be some, as you experienced, that still maintain that 'entitled' attitude...
Woah! We thought you drowned?!
Blind, huh? I
so want-to comment....
but, whatever...you're just not worth the powder...
Why don't you just run for President in 2012 and save us all, oh Great One?...