It's hostile and assessments will be ideologically driven, but it's also a visa application. If I ask for that type of information for you to be able attend my summer camp or to come to my party, that's really my prerogative. You're asking to be a guest.

Americans are having a problem where they are guaranteed a certain set of rights as citizens, and guaranteed a certain process by which it is determined that those rights apply or whether they were applied. Those things are being routinely violated. Having any visitors at all (unless part of a treaty) is optional.

America colonized a lot of the world's dreams, but that doesn't obligate America to help you live them. We should want to, but we can't even protect ourselves. Americans are being harassed at the border. If we can't even get into our own country without unreasonable searches and seizures, there's no "outrage" left for the sake of other countries' elites. Most Americans can't afford to travel.

There's many a story/legend/fairy tale about what happens to people who violate the sacred traditions of hospitality.

Zeus Xenios didn't just punish badly behaved guests!

For some reason the gods haven't come down off Mount Olympus to punish our transgressions ... yet.

But Neither the USA nor the EU are covering themselves in much glory at the moment.

> America colonized a lot of the world's dreams, but that doesn't obligate America to help you live them.

I never said that. And I also don't have any intentions whatsoever to relocate to the US to live the "American dream" or any other dream. I'm pretty fine where I am. Except that the visa situation is a nightmare and my circumstances are not so simple that I could just decide to cancel my, say, summer vacation in the US. Heck, even if you're just transiting in the US, without leaving the international terminal, and not even planning on entering the country, you already need a visa.

The only thing I'm asking for is that I be treated as a human being, with the same inalienable human rights (at least on paper) as everywhere else in the western world.