Americans have their faults, especially with their aggressive unilateral foreign policy, but I noticed myself that they were much less racist and xenophobic than Europeans.
It's probably because their culture favors personal achievement for anyone while that in Europe, people favor rather belonging to an ethnicity, a religion, and a language, and want to stigmatize all those who don't adhere to a common culture and common values.
It's probably for this reason that in the United States, we have few chances to find anyone who would be favorable to "zero immigration" and "remigration" like in France, Italy or anywhere in Europe, and even most hard-rightist Americans oppose illegal immigration, but favor legal immigration.
It's just unfortunate that many Europeans don't want to distinguish those who come in Europe in order to rise on the social scale and others who would want to "invade and colonize fatherland and impose the Great Replacement".
I've not traveled/lived in Europe so can't say anything about life there. Europeans I've met in other places, including America, have tended to be some of the most open-minded, ethnically inclusive people I've ever known, but then that group is self-selecting for traveling outside Europe when I meet them! And also I think things change over time. One decade can have a very different feel than another, depending on what's happening in the world.
But I will credit America for at least trying to be better on these issues. Until the current president we had a national ideal of moving beyond tribalism and divisiveness. Things have taken a step back, but it is likely to be corrected by impeachment. Even if the impeachment process fails, it will send a clear signal to our youth that just because someone rises to great power, that does not mean they are a great person nor that they should be emulated.
We generally aim high here in America, and are an idealistic nation. That's probably the one good thing we bring to the world. Sorry for all the bombs.
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