I am the last person to generalize, I’m not at all saying that everyone here is like _____ and everyone there is like ____. It’s more about in the USA there aren’t many kids whom have never seen a television or a computer, and in Israel there exists a large community of such people. Of course it’s not everyone, and not the majority-but compared to the ammount of such people in the US the idea of someone NOT knowing is just assosiated with israelis which makes sense again because although not nearly everyone here is like that, I’m sure you can agree there are many more people here than in the US.
There are so many people like that compared to the US to the point where people in the US such as sparkly find it extremely hard to see the reasoning or the existence of a group of people that large. It just sounds so foreign.
So I’m not trying to buy into stereotypes, I’m just trying to explain why these stereotypes exist. I was just trying to explain to her that there are people like that and it’s okay.