I'm sorry you took me for creating dichotomies, I wasn't trying to do that (indeed, you're the one who wants to dismiss the lived experience of another group).

What I was trying to say is that there are plenty of people in the world who think they're free until some Imperialist came along to make them more free, and that there are plenty of contemporary examples where those people feel free under the rules of their religion. The US has committed plenty of human rights violations to get those people to stop being the way they are; people who fell plenty OK about the way they are.