It's not any better in Canada. All you need to do is ask anybody trying to gain entry into Canada within the last 4 years. It's gone from a welcome thing to a tedious thing and most residents are wholly unaware of this process becoming quite worse for applicants.

It's still not as bad or exclusive as Australia, but it's getting there quickly.

Combined with the "me, me, me" mentality and "everybody that participates gets a trophy" (George Carlin really hammered this one in regards to child worship and parents and kids with trophies) yet society in North America seems to want a certain parameter of how you should act in order to be immediately accepted. And to be honest, if you're not: white, male, speak English somewhat fluent, you will find resistance to your acceptance.

Calling a spade a spade here. Differing opinions exist... but if you don't see it that way, you might be part of the problem.

Best advice.

Walls don't work if you're still allowing jackhammers, battering rams and whatnot.

The problem is that we need to be a post-scarcity society that mitigates greed and avarice and replace it with the one thing that doesn't exist all too often - compassion.

Until then, this United States citizen has little to no faith for a future where we learn our lesson and start to get along.