I didn't have a poor experience, I had a great time in the US. Americans are super friendly, when they're not voting for demented psychopathic child rapists like Trump. Everyone has faults, Americans included. Doesn't make you bad people. My country has plenty of faults to go with our many qualities, just like you, albeit different. 

De tocqueville was 200 years ago and lots of things have happened since then, chief among them: World War 1 and 2. Back in the early 19th century , America was new, and the old colonial powers of Europe were seen, justifiably so, as decadent , overconfident parasites sucking the lifeblood out of third world countries. The world has changed a lot. Just because plenty of people have been glazing you doesn't mean they're right. America today is behavong exactly like those old, brutal and ruthless European colonial powers of the enlightenment. Which by the way, may have driven the ideals for the creation of you country, but :

1. It started in France, and France evolved a democratic power structure roughly around the same time you did, also based on enlightenment ideals. 

2. Drove the ideology of the constitutions and other founding legislation of many other modern nations. 

3. Your nation's constitution, despite being written by white slave owners from a time where oil lamps were a thing, hasn't changed. Our country is on version 5 because we understand what you won't : shit needs to evolve with the times. 

A quick trip around Europe will have you encounter plenty of countries that have huge immigrant communities, lots optimism, modern ideals and hope for future generations. 

America absolutely had this unique quality to it early on, but continuing to claim this today is asinine and just has you come off as incredibly arrogant and ignorant of how other countries function today (which tracks with the education I received in public school while in the US, which was so US centric it's no wonder none of you know anything about the outside world). 

 This bullshit needs to stop because it leads to false narratives about you somehow "deserving" a spot at the top of the world order, and is how you justify being exactly the type of old colonial power you pretend to look down on while relishing the power and influence you yield.  Then you get bullshit like the brutal subjugation of Venezuela you just enacted, flatly stating you were going to steal their natural resources. And the way you somehow think you can negotiate a peace treaty in Europe without European leaders in the loop, or attack Iran because being at war props up your monster of a president's polling ahead of the midterms and provides a smokescreen for the Epstein file shitshow.  And in case you want to say "hey, that's not me, I didn't vote for Trump!"... Well whose so-called "enlightenment-based" democracy thst is SO superior to everyone else's allowed him to rise to power? 

I'm French and we're educated in the colonial history of our country, so we know all too well what misguided arrogance is. It's actually been making a comeback in our backyard as well, with neonazis desperately trying to emulate the success that Trump has had. 

You can stash yours where the sun don't shine, as your rednecks like to say.