Where you have lived in the world explains your perspective, doesn't. Ean mine is better or worse.
Go talk to people who were exchange students and people who loved in other countries, idgaf about your research of history and philosophy. Those people in those countries you've studied are real people, just like you and I. I met a dude from Afghanistan in Denmark who hated me when we first met. And hour or two later the two of us ended up hugging and smoking a joint together. That's all we're saying is that your lack of experience with other people from other cultures puts your perspective in a purely theoretical one based on "research" as you said yourself which is missing a huge part of the human experience. I met kids in my English class abroad who were moved around from country to country alone when they were under age 16 just to escape warlords and collapsing govts. I don't think you can fully grasp the Consequences of the bullshit govts do until you have had a friend who's been through shit like that or seen how people are just people no matter where they're from.