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Where do you want to go with that? That can be said about the treatment of every non-white European people's by white Europeans around the world. Native Americans are still very present in the US just ignored. People in the US and Europe also seem to pay no care for refugees from wars brought on by their countries imperialist/colonial wars. Nor do they seem to recognize native hispanics as native Americans nor people in the Middle East as people indigenous to those lands. American, European, Australian, etc tourists don't seem to recognize people other than natives on reservations in the US and Canada as indigenous to any lands. These can be said to discourage every civil rights activist in the past to present. Can be said to anyone working for the ACLU today. Those in medical research in NATO countries today. People today have to work towards something.
The spirit of America and European countries have been for the last ~600 years, marked by slavery, genocide, colonialism, imperialism. Going forward it will be something. It's far from as bad as it once was but it's trending back towards overt imperialism again and internal opposition has to be better than they were in the past because in the past they were terrible at it.
People that leave the US, France, UK, Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Australia, etc countries to poorer countries to take advantage of their relative wealth to live out life as a wealthy conservative are not contributing to society in their home country nor the country they're trying live a life of tourism in. And it is no surprise that conservatives succeed so much in politics when lean lefts are so quick to give up and recluse themselves from politics of not just where they were born but every country in the world so they can just enjoy themselves. Live life. Focus on their own spirituality. On their own art. Mental health. There's no balance. It's all just consumerism and hedonism dressed up for the art district. Etc. It's being selfish and self-centered
Buddy, my point was that there's no benevolent USAmerican spirit. It's just propaganda that you eat since birth. It's nice you get it. On immigration: when not complete morons go overseas they get how weird the North American society is.