@skinnylatte This might be true if one's media diet is sensationalist media sources like tabloids.
The contrast I'd draw: European tabloids in languages I can read focus a more lot on the sensational things happening within their borders or the "shit" countries nearby. N. America is too far away to care. Many tabloids are pro-America.
Higher brow media (language caveat) tends to be a little less sensationalist. Most U.S. skeptics I've met formed it from their own experiences in the U.S.