I feel ashamed of my narrow interests

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There are some TV shows that I like, like Haruhi Suzumiya and Umechan-sensei, but both of these are really old. I don't know a lot outside of it, and even with these shows my interests within them tend to be narrow, so there's still a lot I don't know about these 2 shows. When I talk with others, they mention so much stuff I never heard of, and I feel ashamed for not hearing of them, like I am pathetic in some way, or like I don't care about stuff as much as I like to.

I feel the same way. I watch one franchise of shows online that are not broadcast in my country, but I don't try to watch any of the drama shows that are popular, or many movies, because I'm very scared of violent or disturbing content. I get fixated on specific music artists instead of listening to a variety, and I've never at any point in my life been able to say I liked more than 4 or 5 bands/artists in depth (i.e. listened to one or more whole albums) at a time. I like foreign languages, but most of the people who like the same languages as me are a lot more well-versed in politics than I am and I feel too ignorant and out of my depth if the conversation goes there.

It is really embarrassing, most of my conversations consist of me saying "no, I haven't heard about that" "I don't know anything about that, sorry"