Awe-Struck World Cup Tourists Should Remind Us What Makes America So Great

As citizens from across the globe visit American shores for the World Cup competition, hundreds of thousands praise the United States while lambasting their media for lying. In more ways than one, they are seeing the real America for the first time: Its sights and scenery, its stores and stadiums, and most of all, its people. It has been love at first sight.

Listening to the heart-warming testimonies of foreign tourists visiting the country is edifying and unifying in a time of slanted media coverage. Europeans in particular have been fed a false narrative about America’s crime-infested culture and crass capitalist economy. The fact that these good people are believing what they see, not what they’ve heard, suggests the miracle of America is obvious to just about anyone who takes an honest look — even Americans.

But are the eyes of our friendly visitors fully open, or are they failing to see the most important realities about our country? America’s history, people, and founding principles are the realities that make everything they now love about this country possible.

The collective enthusiasm on social media hits three main topics. The first is an overall awe-struck reaction to America’s material richness, bigness, and consumer choices.

Visitors can’t get enough of our stores and restaurants, our big homes and big trucks. Even our infrastructure impresses them. All this, of course, reflects America’s great wealth. But where does that wealth and prosperity come from? (Read more from “Awe-Struck World Cup Tourists Should Remind Us What Makes America So Great” HERE)