After virus, how will Americans' view of the world change?

“The Chinese virus,” they called it — or, in a few particularly racist cases, the “kung flu.” 

It’s not racist - it’s a joke. No wonder comics won’t do shows on college campuses anymore.

It will remain pretty much unchanged: Covid-19 was the fault of China or some other country. Why don't other countries they visit for vacation speak English.

It will remain pretty much unchanged: 

Agreed. They will still think of the rest of the world as their inferiors, open to invasion or blockades if they don't play along and do as told.

However, the economic collapse that will follow these lockdowns may change that a bit.

It’s not racist - it’s a joke.

Its a racist joke, just like Trump.

As Tey Dela Cruz says, it won't change. Americans will absolutely blame everyone but themselves.

I hope that more Americans will realize that it is important to have a competent, ethical, hardworking President leading the nation, as opposed to what we have now.

The population of the USA has always been inward looking, as the article mentions, few even have a passport as they never leave the country, many beyond the elite rarely venture beyond the state and their media reinforce this attitude.

Online contact across the world will not change that mindset, if anything it will reinforce it. Already people view what they see on screen as not entirely real, the sight of distress of someone the other side of the world may not be categorised alongside films an entertainment in the mind but it is not quite real so does not elicit the response of seeing your neighbour or family in like situation.

Without actual contact and real personal experience the individual remains parochial and lacks the understanding of a wider outlook.

Are the commenters along with the article implying that the virus DIDN'T originate in China? Then in the almighty name of Political Correctness, we need to get cracking at changing the names of of MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and quite possibly, the biggest true misnomer of all, the Spanish flu of 1918 (the real origins of which still aren't clear)! We also need to revise post-haste the current record of origin of SARS as not being the Yunnan province region of China. For the record, I'm an American of Chinese descent who has lived internationally but that doesn't require to me to be an apologist for any country especially when actual blame can be directed to that particular country/region/party.

I find it funny that the author and commenters are themselves very insular in implying that all Americans are uneducated, backwoods country hicks that can't see beyond the horizons of the farms or trailer parks that the commenters seem to infer as the common domiciles for average Americans. Get over the fact that just being an expat doesn't make you better than anyone else!

The virus, along with others came out of China-that’s a fact...