This is not a problem in other western countries, so why would it be in the US? It sounds very much like post-hoc justification to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
Once you see it as a throughline of your conversations with people who have been steeped in the American culture for so long, it is hard to unsee.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
Once you see it as a throughline of your conversations with people who have been steeped in the American culture for so long, it is hard to unsee.