By the way - I would echo Muskie's stupid question - who are they and us.
I've never had any problems in any of the countries I visited in Europe or Africa and ventures into parts of Asia - both as an obsessive hitch-hiker in my youth and later a visitor.
I was greeted with politeness and on occasion warmth and friendship by just about everybody I met and learned quite a lot because of that.
I quite often deepend those relationships by sharing my hatred and mistrust of their and our politicians - the real "them and us" as far as we were concerned.
I'm still often struck by what bad tourists many Britons make - the Empire on holiday.
Jim Carroll