I am an American, born and raised here. It's a great place, people are great. Just like anywhere, there are good people and bad, there are kind people and mean,

I am an American, born and raised here. It's a great place, people are great. Just like anywhere, there are good people and bad, there are kind people and mean, there are helpful people and not helpful. Over and over I encounter good people with views that I don't agree with, that would help me in a heartbeat and I would help in a heartbeat. If you fall victim to the mentality that everyone sucks, guess what, everyone will suck in your eyes. Personally, I think the modern western culture is pretty sick, there's a ton of narcissism, people are sucked into their fake worlds behind their media screens. That doesn't mean they are bad people, it means that the incentive structure of western society is fundamentally broken. Don't confuse bad people with people who are under sway of a broken media system.