Actually we've come a long way as a country. We became our own country without a war and we have fought foreign wars, paying a heavy price to help others. We have sent peacekeepers to foreign third world nations to help them and have taken in many who's traditions are very different than ours. Many of the new traditions these people brought with them have changed our country. Some for the better and some for the worse. We've bent over backwards for people and some of them just don't get it.