They are part of our embassies. There are more consulates in a country than embassies. My colleagues know what I am talking about. and hopefully folks listening understand that you have State Department employees in all of these countries so when people come and apply for a visa and they want to come visit the United States or come over here to study. or get permanent legal resident. a socalled green card. they have to go through our consulates. They have to fill out forms and pay an application fee. They are all checked to a faretheewell. as the old Georgia expression goes. but it was decided in 1986. you know. for the countries where these are our friends. they look like us and in some instances they speak our own language. we dont need to worry about them. and so lets just let them come in without a visa. Therefore. the visa waiver program. Now it has been expanded to 27 countries and growing. So they just show a passport.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that people from visa waiver countries "look like us" and speak our language, so we don't need to worry about them.