I agreed with you at first, but eventually I noticed your lack of knowledge.
Today, it is much more akin to an African nation than it is to a Western nation.
Wow, what the hell *that* means? There's a reason Buenos Aires is called the Paris of Latin America. Argentina is You also say "an African nation". Do you mean like Seychelles, Libya, South Africa or CAR? Do you even know Africa is a continent?
When traveling in foreign nations, it is a good practice...
Agreed, but losing your passport is more probable that way.
Indeed, a good way of avoiding incidents like this is to not travel to countries where incidents like this are more probable. This is just common sense.
So... you agree that there are places even in the USA that may be risky, essentially admitting that countries are not a good generalization, and then you go on and generalize for entire countries once again? Charming.