{"id":2623239,"date":"2026-07-03T10:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/awe-struck-world-cup-tourists-should-remind-us-what-makes-america-so-great\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:11:08","slug":"awe-struck-world-cup-tourists-should-remind-us-what-makes-america-so-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/awe-struck-world-cup-tourists-should-remind-us-what-makes-america-so-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Awe-Struck World Cup Tourists Should Remind Us What Makes America So Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fawe-struck-world-cup-tourists-should-remind-us-what-makes-america-so-great%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2623239&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-magazine-takes-chinese-cash-to-promote-controversial-drone-business\/\" title=\"Time Magazine Takes Chinese Cash To Promote Controversial Drone Business\">article highlights<\/a> how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-creates-working-groups-of-experts-to-strategize-how-to-restart-global-travel\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Creates Working Groups Of \u2018Experts\u2019 To Strategize How To Restart Global Travel\">international visitors<\/a> to the United States ofen perceive the country positively, attracted by its material wealth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-to-visit-utah-as-he-eyes-path-to-2024-nomination\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. plans Utah visit, eyes 2024 nomination\">stunning natural landscapes<\/a>, and the friendliness of its people. Thes visitors tend to see America\u2019s external symbols of success-such as large homes, stores, and infrastructure-and interpret them as signs of prosperity. They are also moved by the warmth, helpfulness, and encouraging attitude of Americans, which fosters a sense of acceptance and freedom. <\/p>\n<p>However, the author emphasizes that this admiration largely reflects America\u2019s material success and the outward expression of its capitalist economy, which is rooted in a foundational belief in individual freedoms and rights endowed by a Creator, as articulated in the declaration of Independence. These freedoms-particularly the liberty to pursue dreams and take initiative-are central to america\u2019s identity and history, rooted in its constitutional principles and a faith-based understanding of inalienable rights. <\/p>\n<p>The article warns that the external allure shoudl not overshadow the underlying principles of freedom founded on faith and personal liberty. It stresses the importance of Americans revisiting their history and reinforcing the core values that have made the nation great-namely, faith, individual rights, and limited government-to preserve its freedom and greatness into the future.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >crime-infested culture<\/a> and crass capitalist economy. The fact that these good people are believing what they see, not what they\u2019ve heard, suggests the miracle of America is obvious to just about anyone who takes an honest look \u2014 even Americans.  <\/p>\n<p>But are the eyes of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-proof-of-heaven-stories-and-one-proof-of-hell-that-had-atheist-calling-out-for-jesus-to-save-him\/\" title=\"Two &#039;Proof of Heaven&#039; Stories and One &#039;Proof of Hell&#039; That Had Atheist Calling Out for Jesus to Save Him\">friendly visitors<\/a> fully open, or are they failing to see the most important realities about our country? America\u2019s history, people, and founding principles are the realities that make everything they now love about this country possible.<\/p>\n<p>The collective enthusiasm on social media hits three main topics. The first is an overall awe-struck reaction to America\u2019s material richness, bigness, and consumer choices.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can\u2019t get enough of our stores and restaurants, our big homes and big trucks. Even our infrastructure impresses them. All this, of course, reflects America\u2019s great wealth. But where does that wealth and prosperity come from?<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the reaction to the overwhelming beauty of America\u2019s outdoors. The mind-blowing scenery of the United States is spoken about almost reverently, as though our founders had a special dispensation from Mother Nature.<\/p>\n<p>The third observation these travelers make is the most revealing. They speak of how much they love the American people.\u00a0Repeatedly, they gush over our friendliness, helpfulness, kindness, and generosity, on a scale so natural and personal that many felt they were more at home in America than in their own country. They felt they weren\u2019t just accepted, they were encouraged!<\/p>\n<p>One English lady hit the bullseye when she noted Americans\u2019 positive attitude: \u201cAt home, I\u2019m always having to shrink myself. In America, I\u2019m told to \u2018go for it!\u2019\u201d She felt liberated.<\/p>\n<p>That says it all. Most anywhere you go in the world, people are accustomed to being under the thumb of civil authority and having to seek permission from government to pursue their dreams and live their lives. They navigate through an army of dim-witted bureaucrats who invent a thousand different ways to say \u201cno.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Then they come to America, and hear the words, \u201cGo for it!\u201d Take initiative! Follow your dreams! Imagine the possible! You can do it! That is the spirit of a free nation. The language of a free people. And they love it. It\u2019s contagious. They want to stay.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson our foreign friends should learn is that America\u2019s heart and soul has very little to do with our fast food and fast cars, our mega-houses and mega-stores. All the glitz and glow that attracts their attention is but an image of free-market capitalism, which bears witness to the freedom that produced it \u2014 the freedom to try, the freedom to succeed, the freedom to fail and try again.  <\/p>\n<p>Historically, that freedom is grounded in faith, and in a Declaration of Independence that sets us apart from the rest of the world. When Jefferson penned those immortal words, \u201cendowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights \u2026,\u201d he and the signers all knew they were establishing a new kind of country under God. The rights and liberties of the individual citizen were recognized as \u201cnatural,\u201d inalienable and inviolate, precisely because they are granted by the Great Lawmaker, not by man. No man or man\u2019s government can alter or overturn them.<\/p>\n<p>Our Constitution spells this out in detail, limiting the power and prerogatives of civil government. It was this foundation upon which the American Experiment was built and has thrived for 250 years. Our friendly visitors are seeing the thriving. They need most of all to see the foundation. Men do best when left free. And that freedom must be secure, not conditional to the next election.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom without virtue or faith is a chair without legs. It\u2019s just temporary, state-granted privileges, not freedom. The nations of the world testify to the folly and failure of unrestrained government substituted for God. America stands alone on a foundation of faith-based freedom. We Americans, more than anything, need to relearn our history and rediscover the fundamental truths that made \u2014 and will keep \u2014 us both great and free.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Roger Koopman is president of Montana Conservative Alliance. He served four years in the Montana House of Representatives and eight years as a Montana Public Service Commissioner. Koopman operated a Bozeman small business for 37 years.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People and spirit, beyond media myths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4348,"featured_media":2623240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Mancini.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47651,7825,50950,3951,47370],"class_list":["post-2623239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-american-pride","tag-patriotism","tag-tourism-2","tag-travel","tag-world-cup"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Mancini.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623244,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623239\/revisions\/2623244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2623240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}