You missed my point entirely. It doesn't matter whether you think you care. Pride, chest-puffing and posturing don't matter either.

The outside world has a habit of affecting things whether you pay attention to them or not.

You're missing the bigger picture.

A non-US citizen expressing critism of America does not automatically mean that they're laughing at you or your country. This isn't a competition or a school playground.

Set your pride and nationalism to the side for just a second and consider that these critisms could have been born from a genuine issue, and not fabricated/exaggerated by "European media"

Every time I check out BBC, DW, France 24, or any other European world news service, America is almost always first to be discussed. What Trump says, shootings, demonstrations, etc. It's all domestic affairs, but covered as though it's world news. Why would someone in Bavaria care so much about a shooting in Flint, Michigan? What about shootings in other countries? The horrors in Africa? Barely covered. No one cares.

So that's why this is not criticism, but some kind of competitive snickering. Europeans seem to need to feel better about themselves when comparing about Americans. Americans, on the other hand, rightfully don't care about what goes on overall in Europe.

I watch the news in the UK nearly every day and what you say is just not true. I suspect you're viewing the international versions of those channels rather than the domestic ones.