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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.