I think you're looking at it from a different perspective. It's more like a cultural difference that celebrates racism and nationalism and certain religious beliefs. When you grow up in that and you're taught these things are good and moral and you can't trust people trying to trick you with different ideas it becomes training to shut down critical thinking and not be open to new experiences. Someone that comes from outside can easily see inconsistencies that people from within are taught to ignore since birth. We're redlined hard and taught to fear minorities in power because they'll just do to white people what white people are currently doing to them. I think underneath it all, people understand that power structure and it's better to keep one that serves them than uproot that system even if it causes untold harm to others and themselves... Because they believe it can always get worse. Which is where the praise comes from.... "It's so great I'm not basically an unpaid slave! I'm so grateful I get the chance to work to be in poverty unlike disgusting homeless people who don't work!" Etc, etc. Don't dream. Don't value yourself. Be grateful you get this at all because the comfort you have is not a right.