The problem with Jewish culture (and Muslim culture, which is similar in some key ways) is that they are taught that THEY are god's chosen people and everyone else is trash.

Goyim=cattle. Talmud says Jews can rape and kill goyim, that Jesus is boiling in shit in hell, that eating dinner with goyim is equal to eating with farm animals.

Muslims just give you one chance to convert before they cut your throat, so that's why they're the religion of peace. They give you a chance to not die.

Both of those groups have policies about lying. Lying to your own kind is a sin, but lying to the infidels or goyim to protect your religion is noble.

I think your heart is in the right place, and certainly not ALL Jewish or Muslim people are playing this game, but that is quite seriously at the heart of these religions. It's what they're taught.

WE are taught to love and accept everyone, which is a great idea, but I think it's making us weak and stupid. Yeah sure they said they want to kill all of us, but they're not THAT bad, right????

As individuals, give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Individuals are free beings capable of making their own decisions and acting morally. You'll probably meet nice wonderful people from any group on the planet you can think of.

Those people though DO grow up in cultures and environments that are not the same as yours. They think differently because they have been taught differently. As a whole they are indeed different.

Culture is important.

A great book that I wish more people would read is called The End of All Evil, by Jeremy Locke. It's essentially all about culture (and doesn't talk about any of the things I said above... it's arguing that even OUR culture is bad due to it being an arbitrary set of rules that are enforced by all of society around us. Depending on your geographical place of birth you're expected to follow a different set of societal laws. Does being born in X mean that Y set of rules is the correct one? Does it mean you're more likely to agree with those rules, or do you follow them because you're pushed into it by everyone around you?

I actually left the US over culture. People in America are retarded. Everyone thinks they're free-thinking independent people, but if you try to go against the grain at all, everyone freaks out or ostracizes you, as a big stupid herd, all while thinking they're independent Americans making their own choices.

Right now I'm in a country where everyone has groupthink herd mentality, which is fucking OBNOXIOUS... but what makes it more tolerable to me, is that they KNOW they're doing it. They haven't fooled themselves like everyone back home has. I disagree with it, but at least they're aware of what they're doing. They have their own nonsense logic to justify why it's a good thing (which you can't trust since nobody would dare to go against the group) and I think they're stupid too, but at least they're honest about it, mostly. I'm a foreigner so they don't expect me to be the same as them, so in a way I'm much more free here, even surrounded by this hivemind zombie group.

Americans have a lot more POTENTIAL to be great. The concepts and ideas of freedom and individuality are wonderful, we just need people to actually embrace them instead of being sheep.