If someone asked a similar question about another country without ever mentioning the country, you would not react like that to that same question.

I read it as an actual question. Because the answer is very different depending on if it’s asked of USians or of people around the globe.

It might be a rhetorical question though, meant to make OP think.

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In any case, you have once again proven that american exceptionalism is a big thing in americans’ minds.