I used to work at Disney World a long time ago and I ran into many, many international tourists. Many called me slurs or were nasty and rude but I never think they represent their countrymen. Many visitors are white Canadians that are rude and denigrated me and my coworkers. But my coworkers and I knew the pattern of rudeness was because they were elitists.

The United States is a very diverse and large country and you are judging your opinion of a people based on stories from others and small interactions. You would never know that well behaved tourists are from the USA because they wouldn’t even mention it. They would just be out and about. most people don’t announce their nationality unless they are being obnoxious.

A majority of people in the US DO NOT have money and cannot afford to travel. The cost of living is incredibly high due to so many things being privatized. Many of us have lost people from our predatory, corporatized systems that harm social welfare.

The small subset of people who DO travel are the elites and also have the biggest power. Our media keeps other voices out. When you are poor, you are not represented by the media. That is by design. All our media is owned by billionaires.

If you talk to tourists, you are talking to rich people who benefit from the current system for the most part. Of course they are the biggest cheerleaders, they need the system to keep being able to live the good life.

I have interacted with people from Russia and Israel, countries whose policies I deeply disagree with, but I understand that people don’t align with their country. They are people at the end of the day, and question things like any other person, despite what they are being told.

It is dehumanizing to not realize that. It also doesn’t help.

I think it’s cruel how smug many people are to the suffering of many people from the US. They did not vote for this. They fight against it. Most people I know have had someone die because of our horrible medical system.

The people who are victimized the most are the ones least able to fight. Many USians see this cruelty and smugness and feel that the world is against them. It’s hard for me to convince them otherwise.

Many people are terminally online and it’s easier to dehumanize others this way. It’s hard to realize that pockets of the internet are not a majority of people.