Ashamed is not the right word, not nearly descriptive or strong enough, but as a moderator I won't go there -- at least not on the RCB.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"