I said the narrative was racist while the rest is implied by you. It is actually charitable to characterize as racist someone who depicts massacres (6 million in Vietnam alone), oppression and widespread exploitation as ‘policing’ the world, or someone who sees a nation built on genocide and slavery as ‘founded on ideals’. Read Howard Zinn’s “A People's History of the United States” for an alternative perspective on how the US was founded. And the US fought a Civil War for economic reasons (‘white gold’) and economic control and not for moral ones. Finally, having a Guatemalan father-in-law means nothing. You’re still stoking your nationalistic ego. People fleeing the unending US atrocities abroad, like in Guatemala, would be happy to be behind the figurative cannon instead of in front of it but that does not make the cannon 'good'.

Who knows what ‘most Americans’ are. Americans are people like everywhere else but they are disconnected, you’ld call it individualistic, because of the manufactured culture of isolation. Those that follow your narrative (if you do then you can apply the rule) are indeed bigoted racists who prefer to preen their national ego rather than face the truth which is that the US is an empire that was built on genocide and oppression and survives on exploitation and destruction abroad.