It's not the normal reaction from people who catch her staring after she's gotten lost in thought, and that throws her just enough that her embarrassment is having a delayed reaction. Delayed enough that her first response is to frown at him, heading tilting a little.

"Not that violent, I guess."

It's not, she doesn't think. The Hunger Games are highly specific: the recent uprisings are recent, and also specific. It's hardly generalized violent chaos, or so she'd argue.

"Um. Why, why you assumin' insular? Could be folk just forgot."

(The fact that, as far as Annie herself is concerned, 'insular life' sums up the past five and a half years pretty well, is something she's ignoring. Mostly ignoring. Telling herself that it's not what he was talking about. He was talking about culture.)