30 Non-Americans Share What They Genuinely Think About What's Happening In America Right Now

And these answers seem to be an accurate reflection of the general opinion. For example, a recent poll of 11,000 Europeans has found that the majority have an increasingly negative view of the United States as a result of the coronavirus crisis, with just 2% of Europeans surveyed describing the U.S. as a "helpful" ally in the fight against COVID-19.

The poll, commissioned by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), ran across nine European countries and showed that in almost every country surveyed, there was an increasingly negative perception of the U.S.

Matthew Goodwin, an academic, bestseller writer, and speaker, known for his work on political volatility, risk, populism, British politics, Europe, elections, and Brexit, suggests that one of the biggest challenges the US currently faces is the sheer scale of polarisation. "Voters have broken off into value-based blocks and are unwilling to listen to the other side. This 'affective polarisation' is damaging for American politics and society and has increased during the Trump era," the author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy told Bored Panda.

"The US has struggled to find a meaningful response to this issue of polarisation, not only but partly because the moderate center and a pluralistic media has given way to a more febrile and toxic climate," Goodwin added.

Ferdinando Giugliano, a Milan-based columnist for Bloomberg Opinion expressed a similar view. "The past decade saw the 'European model' take a battering, as the U.S. recovered faster and stronger from the financial crisis. And 2020 could well be the year in which we reassess the relative merits of the European Union. The pandemic hit both sides of the Atlantic equally hard, and yet Europe managed to contain the damage from the virus better. The social fabric held tighter, too: The riots that are pitting one part of U.S. society against another appear from a world apart. Political leadership is certainly part of it: Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, and Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, are taking radical steps to build bridges across the EU, just as Donald Trump is actively dividing his own country," he Giugliano said.

Yes, the US remains the most powerful country in the world, and yes, it still has a tremendous capacity to teach others but maybe it's time the country focuses on learning.