America the... ?

This morning, even though I am halfway around the world, I still woke up to the faces of those Cheshire home invasion creeps on TV.  They were talking about it on the international CNN and there were those awful men staring out of the t.v.  Out of all of the news in America, that is what they pick to talk about.  It is sad because people here are not viewing Americans in a good way.  A lot of people are complaining or wearing things that are scandalous or doing inappropriate things, and often times they are American.  It is putting us in a bad light and people are talking about us, even though it is not all of us.  Now when you see the news that comes out of America, (no one here knows it as the United States, only as America) you can see why there is such a stigma about the country.  Other parts of the world think that we are stuck up and kill people.