The thing is though, I'm not sure there's a nation out there that has clean hands. I hold Canadian and New Zealand citizenship, and both countries, despite their excellent reputations, have had many instances of horrendous treatment of foreigners / aboriginals. A mere hundred years ago, Canada allowed the passengers of the Komagata Maru to starve, thanks to exclusion laws made to keep out Asians. In New Zealand, tribal chiefs took bribes from the British to cut off the heads of their best soldiers for their toi moko -- their facial tattoos -- which were very valuable on the black market at the time.
Maybe the atrocities of new Americans on aboriginals is a much greater issue, but atrocity is atrocity...and virtually all nations have dark chapters in their histories.
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