Westerners are extremely interested in other nations as a rule, not just AZN ones. Westerners use this foreign interest to ESCAPE paying attention to their own failgovernments and faileconomies and failsocieties in general. For examples, USians will tell you all about how much a nutball Iran is, yet the USA is doing either the same stuff, or much worse than that. Since USians don't pay attention their own Military Murder Machine, they really don't know much when you try to debate them. There's a factor of intentional ignorance, but there's still a result of astonishing ignorance about what their own nation does in the world and domestically.