Is it normal americans can't appreciate their own culture?

I'm always hearing from asshats about how nothing comes from Asia but cheap shit and viruses, but most of these loonies know nothing about their own country. It got me to thinking, do Americans actually appreciate ANYTHING about their own culture? the ones I know seem content to slam back Coors and scream at the TV, but have they ever read Mark Twain, William Faulkner, R. W. Emerson, or any of the other American greats? Do they just listen to top 40 horseshit, or do they appreciate Robert Johnson, Charlie Parker, Frank Zappa, Mos Def, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, etc.? Would they just go "that's gay, a 3-year-old could do it" at a Pollock painting? How many of them have actually read the Federalist Papers? I can understand the English not knowing Anglo-Saxon and having a hard time digesting everything their country has done in the past god knows how many centuries those wankers have been around, but we've only been here formally since the late 18th century or thereabouts, and you've got these boobs who have no initiative to learn their history, no appreciation for what their country can do besides "heh heh cheap beer and big gun go BOOM heh heh..."