You are right, it’s true everywhere. It’s human nature to be wary of people you don’t understand. But, for some things, you’d expect countries that are a lot further ahead in progressivism to be “nicer”, especially since, you know, they industrialised and became richer on the backs of poorer countries.
Though I suppose that’s very difficult to quantitatively measure exactly - how progressive someone is (on the scale of a country). How more accepting they are than other countries.
But there’s also room for letting people air out their issues without being told that “everyone is like this, stop whining”. That’s literally what the Russian goverment does, they implicitly tell their populace that democracy doesn’t work and that this is the best deal they’ll ever get.
Most people like trump, because “strong man”. No one really even knows who JD vance or Usha are. But I guess they’d like her, they like rishi sunak. Being rich is seen as a virtue. There’s also a weird obsession with seeing indians in powerful positions, some sort repressed complex.
She’s fine with the racism because “she’s one of the good ones”. She and vance are neoliberalists, opportunists. Watch them try and make as much money as they can before they get kicked out.