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May the world extend Americans the hospitality that the US has extended to the world in the last year.

As a naturalized American citizen, I hope the world extends Americans who leave the same hospitality the US extended for decades before the last year.

When you say world, do you also include the Middle East and South America and various Asian countries that were invaded, bombed, or couped by America?

As a non-American who has to live in a world that's deeply affected by the schizophrenic convulsions of your current government, I hope you stay in the USA and work on fixing your mess.

Does it occur to you that we too are deeply affected? Stop piously telling a whole country of people how to live their lives.

You're a USA citizen, I'm not. It is your responsibility to clean up this mess, not mine.

That is an absolutely fascinating worldview. I don't know what country you're from and what pain and suffering you've been through that was caused by the US govt., but you've managed to get me to stop caring. Sparkling incompetence. While we're exchanging unenforceable opinions about what random people on the internet should do, you should go help your own country -- by leaving it.

Me, I'll continue doing what I want kthxbai.

That would be amazing.

The US is an extreme outlier in accepting migrants. The current situation is effectively what the vast majority of countries already do. Some go beyond that, and gun down people with machine guns at their border.

The idea that the US is not a country that belongs to its citizens, but some sort of abstract global entity that everyone in the world is entitled to is farcical, and it's coming to an end. The US owes absolutely nothing to non-US people.

If people don't like it that can go anywhere else (keeping in mind that other Western countries are starting to do the same) or, you know, stay in their own country? (Crazy, I know)

> The US is an extreme outlier in accepting migrants.

The US is currently at a recent peak of approx 15% immigrants, much as it was in the 1860-1920 period.

This is less extreme than, say, Australia at 25% population born overseas.

Congrats, you found a more extreme outlier. You can bring up Canada too, but that doesn't change my point.

The US is more or less the same as France per capita.

Your "extreme" is commonplace.

Does adding Spain, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Singapore, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc. change your point?

I’d be fine with America not wanting the world to feel “entitled to” it, if at the same time they’d stop feeling entitled to the rest of the world themselves.

Vietnam. Middle America. Afghanistan. Iraq. Greenland. Venezuela. Iran. Now Cuba.

Stop it.

Oh I agree so much.

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