You’re one of the really smart ones - capable of keeping things in perspective while those around you don’t. I’ve run into exactly the same sort of thing with nationalism (and I’m in a position to do that) -— people of this nationality this and people with that nationality that; when I know that there are creeps in every country. Sorry to make the point in such a negative way - there are good people in every country too, and generally when I hear the complaints I just think of the words from the song “You don’t always get what you wah-ahnt.” And if you’re in something for the long haul, it’s not particularly bright to give up the first time something goes wrong - holding the disappointment as permanent emotional baggage.
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometime
You just might find
You get what you need...
The Rolling Stones