The enlightenment has a lot to do with that. The reason the US did not directly take over any nations, dislike earlier empires including the British.

In an individualist nation, everyone does what they wish subject to law and their choices determine their fates. So it does not matter what one individual does so long as it does not infringe on another’s rights. Live and let live.

At the societal level it is the same ethos, it does not matter what another nation does so long as it does not infringe on the security of your own.

Therein individualist nations such as the US do not care what many nations do, even if those same nations think the US cares.

It is hard particularly for socialist countries to understand this, who may chide the US or see it as weak.

Perhaps one may see this as ‘whiteness’, but it is really philosophical derived from Aristotelian thought.

The problems in the West right now are due to its own doing, not outside intervention. Capitalist countries unwittingly adopted socialist institutions such as central banks that have destroyed tremendous value and diminished individualist thought.

Most of the world’s people still believe in socialism, an older system, which advocates collectivist ideas such as grouping by race and seeing ‘whites’ as a group.