The US has led the world on Civil rights. We were not the last great Slave Traders. Portugal and Spain were. Both European. And since I have about 1/16 American Indian in me, perhaps I might suggest that American Indians were actually one of the first conquerers to travel east from the high steeps of Central Asia. They have many similarities to Mongolians.
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The UK led the world on stopping slavery, the US took a long time to follow.
The US only started getting invovled in civil rights in the 1960's. You had segregation for a heck of a long time.
M<y point is not to claim one country is worse than another but that in the last 2,000 years ALL "modern and civilised" countries have done barbarous things, the US included.
The article in this thread referred to a large segment of Europeans who have adopted an Anti-US sentiment. Why have they acquired this sentiment ? Especially considering the good will the US has in general shown the world. After all, we could have nuked everyone else. Hitler would have. IMHO its possibly a pshycological fixation with competition between countries, races, city-states, kingdoms and tribes.