I have backpacked around places where literally the US funded decades-long civil wars that devastated the country, and people do not blame you for what your gov

I have backpacked around places where literally the US funded decades-long civil wars that devastated the country, and people do not blame you for what your government does. Even in places like Nicaragua where the government is _tremendously_ anti-American, even talking to communist true believers that say they hate everything America stands for (oh and was _that_ a fun night of drinking), in towns with "Viva la Revolution" and "Colonizer Go Home" graffiti, they were incredibly nice to me personally. There was one particular person in a group of locals I was hanging out with who pretended she didn't speak english, because she was annoyed about having to accommodate me and my terrible spanish, until we started talking about Sasha Baron Cohen movies and then suddenly she started speaking enthusiastic english that sounded like she was a UCLA Film Studies major. I talked to a guy in El Salvador that got deported for being in MS-13 and he just wanted to chill and talk about the US and sports. I talked to someone from Colombia that was struggling to get a visa to visit her brother and she was mad about the _situation_, but not mad at _me_ about it, she just wanted to vent. Just listen more than you talk and be careful about how you talk about politics unless you're in the mood for an argument.