President Obama pushed back against what he sees as rising nativism in America, fueled by GOP nominee Donald Trump, as he took questions from an audience of 400 young people from across Southeast Asia during a town hall in Laos on Wednesday.

When asked by a woman from Indonesia how all the different ethnic and racial groups in the U.S. coexist peacefully, Obama credited the Bill of Rights and warned against devolving into an us-versus-them or nationalistic mentality.