I spend a lot of time in a country where I am often the only White guy around
So do I. I've got a house over in the PI and it's not often that I go to places where the other expats are.
and have sometimes had people be rude to me because I'm foreign.
In all the many ports I visited over 20 years in the Navy, and in all the times I've gone overseas since then, I've had that happen...zero times. Yes, that never once happened to me. Why? It's obviously not because it never happens to Americans - absolutely it happens! - but because the great majority of the time that it does happen, it happens because the American brought the problem with him, whether it was in his attitude or his lack of understanding about local culture. And almost without exception, when a junior sailor would come back on board the ship after having a bad experience in whatever port we were in, it was because he had a bad attitude (by which I mean he didn't respect the locals) or got drunk or simply didn't understand the local culture.
And to this day I get really ticked when I see a fellow American making an idiot of himself overseas...because when he does so, it reflects on me, and on all of us.
On the other hand I've had far more people go out of their way to make me feel comfortable, and they are in the huge majority.
Absolutely! In all honesty, many times I've seen the locals go the extra mile to help me, even when they knew there was not going to be anything in it for them.
What may come as a surprise to many Americans is that every country in the world has a problem with the culture, color, religion or habits of their neighbors, to greater or lesser degrees. And that's just as true in Africa among Africans, Arabs among Arabs, Hispanics among Hispanics, and so on.
This, too, is very true - there's prejudice everywhere...and as you imply, all prejudice, whether it be against other races, ethnicities, cultures, religions, sexual preference, or gender...all that prejudice has a common root: the idea that one is better than the other person because {insert excuse here}.
Much of this 'racism' thing is just an exaggerated 'war on women' strategy that only serves to divide people in order to advance leftist political parties.
And that last line is where you went off the rails. You were doing so well until you typed that. Yes, the phrase "war on women" is a bit hyperbolic...but why do so many liberals use that line? Because who is it that refuses to consider making it a law to require equal pay for equal work? Who is it that doesn't want to allow women to have a choice when it comes to abortion, even in cases of rape or incest? Whose pundits are the ones who so often blame the woman when she gets raped? Whose pundits are the ones who have said that women shouldn't be allowed to vote? You see,
there's a reason why most women vote Democratic - they can see just as I do the misogyny of so many on the Right.
Now, go back to what you implied earlier, about how there's prejudice everywhere.
The fact that there is prejudice everywhere does not justify that prejudice. You are absolutely right that prejudice is prejudice is prejudice...but what you're missing is that
misogyny is also prejudice, and the Right has metaphorically made its own bed when it comes to misogyny.