Unfortunately, this is not a phenomenon only people from the US suffer from. Across the globe, there are millions of people who despite them living in a developed country don't know about BTC or cryptocurrency at all.

Ignorance for some is the norm, so there's the extra battle regarding adoption we as a community need to consider also. Simply having access to the internet isn't going to have people accept this new wave, and the matter is more complicated by people being either ignorant or not having access to the infrastructure - it's complicated!