What is the different motivation then? This ship was a guest of the United States. And Americans went out to greet them.
I already told you, you just don’t want to believe it.
The went out there because they *identified* with it, to many of them, it’s “our ship”.
Americans applaud the Queen of UK because they are courteous, they don’t think of her as “our Queen”.
Different cultural tradition define “us” and “them” differently, stop being so PC, go actually learn about these cultures, then come back and we can have a real discussion.