I mean, democracy was conceptualized and began in what is now present day Greece back in Ancient times (when most nations were still ruled by monarchies) and the fact that the original nations who had democratic values are the UK or France (as they were real countries whom existed before the USA even became a country of its own).
You will get very different responses from Denmark, Albania, Switzerland and Belarus. Ancient greek democracy would look bad today with slavery and no women’s rights.
But compared to the USA even that one was more equal /hj