Human?

Would you say I "choose to be ignorant about" Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Vietnam etc? Or maybe those places don't pertain to my interests/needs?

A normal person lmao

Normal.

In fact, I don't think there's a single person on the entire planet who doesn't make that exact choice, with the only differences between individuals being which things go in which categories. And, I guess, how aware they are of the fact that that's what they do.

Define ignorance, I guess. I feel like nonparticipation isn't necessarily ignorance.

American.