Op-Ed: The Eyes of Our Visitors Should Open Our Own Eyes About America

It’s all over the internet. The foreign fascination – even infatuation – with America, as citizens from across the globe visit our shores for the World Cup competition. Hundreds of thousands, singing our praise while lambasting their local media for lying to them. In more ways than one, they were seeing America for the first time. It’s sights and scenery. Its stores and stadiums. Most of all, they were seeing its people. And it’s been love at first sight.

It is both edifying and unifying to listen to their heart-warming testimonies. Knowing the false narrative that Europeans in particular have...