It's a beautiful country though. Most people are very friendly and they love foreign accents :)

It is a shame this; as a white Brit, I found that America is already great on the individual level. It's just the institutional and political side that's a mess, as well as the dark side that one doesn't see as a tourist. Unless you run into an obstreperous border guard.

That's funny, that's the same thing that Americans say about Iran.

Indeed. I've been to several countries and in most of them it's the same thing: Nice people, bad politics.

Makes you wonder why the people keep having bad politicians. Maybe it's time they taught themselves that system a little bit better.

Unless they're the "wrong" accents in which case you will face discrimination for it in many places. That being said, the better parts are at or near the top of the global spectrum in terms of discrimination from my experience.

It's not just the US. Canada and New Zealand do it as well.