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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group I really like the diversity in this country. How anyone can be an American. And you have no idea who is American and who is not. That's my favorite thing. You have no idea who is just sightseeing, who is visiting family, who is here on a student VISA versus who is actually American. So, until someone says otherwise, we are going to assume you are American. Doesn't matter how thick your accent is. Doesn't matter how you dress. You are American until otherwise noticed.

Also, I love how quickly we adopt things from our immigrants and declare it American. It's like, "What are you eating? Is it delicious? Let me try some of that. Oh, God, this *is* delicious. Go open up a restaurant. More people should be eating this. And now it's part of the American fabric."

I love how the American tongue is such a mutt language. How quickly we adapt non-English words and more often than not pronounce them how they would be pronounced in their Native tongue. We don't try make them more English like the way the French will French up foreign words. I like how it's easy to correct an American by saying, "It's actually pronounced this way." And they will have a go at trying to say it correctly rather than huff and puff and try to make *you* change the way you say it. Language is so adaptable here. It's far more forgiving than other languages. You can butcher it up here and as long as we understand the idea of what you are trying convey, you will get a pass. I think it's why it is such a juggernaut on a global stage. Yes, we have language rules but the native speakers will mostly ignore them in order to communicate better.

inksmudgedhands , Lara Jameson Report

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Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago

YES. YES. ANd YES.

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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Wide. Open. Space.

Seriously. Go west and you can get to places that are so remote and so beautiful, with big blue skies during the day and Star filled nights.

mynytemare , Franco Folini Report

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Viv Justviv 1 year ago

I can attest to the stunning beauty of massive wide open spaces & the "big sky". I lived in the Mojave desert for 5 years. I lived in a small town and it only took a 3 minute drive to the edge of the city to see...absolutely nothing for countless miles. It's an amazing experience, similar to the vast horizon on the ocean, but with miles of sand and sparse plant life. And I honestly believe that there is no sky that compares to skies with zero barriers.

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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Our neighbor down the road fled Sudan in the 1980s and made it to the US as a refugee. She lost her father two brothers and most of her extended family as they were related to the wrong political leader that was killed. Her mother and two sisters arrived with literally nothing in the late 80s.

She is now a nurse making 100k a year married to a firefighter with 3 kids living on a property with 8 acres and a 5 bedroom house. One sister is a school teacher and the other manages a Barnes and Noble.

That is pretty cool.

Longbowed , Karolina Grabowska Report

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Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago

Yay!

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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group The food. Because we are a melting pot, I can eat basically any ethnicity's food without leaving my city! Bonus points, if the place looks sketchy and your chances of getting robbed are high.....the food will be amazing

theycallmefuRR , Bilakis Report

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Thegoodboi 1 year ago

It is always amazing, I don't care if you clean the stove or not. Keep making it..

19points

We’ve never lost a superbowl

ham_wallet998 Report

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Zophra 1 year ago

Bahahaha. That was funny.

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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group The Americans With Disabilities Act is seriously some of the best handicap-accessibility protection in the world. A paraplegic person can wheel themselves into pretty much any commercial building in the country and be confident that there will be ramps in all the right places and a restroom they can use. If there aren't, there are powerful legal tools to make it happen.

That's not the case in a lot of places in the world, and it wasn't that long ago that it wasn't the case here.

dahud , Paul Wilkinson Report

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Zophra 1 year ago

Don't most countries have this?

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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Public libraries are awesome.

SuvenPan , ponafotkas Report

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RoanTheMad 1 year ago

I hate to be the nitpicky one but... other countries also have libraries? Agreed they are awesome though, I always used to struggle to study at home, so I'd go to the library where it's peaceful, but my brain associates it as "academic area" xD

14points

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group This isn't going to be seen by too many people, but I think the community college system is one of the United State's best institutions. After two years in the community college I was able to transfer to a university and received a double bachelor's degree. That type of second chance isn't available in many countries.

John-AtWork , Stanley Morales Report

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58points

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RafCo (he/him/ele) 1 year ago

Two year colleges and trade schools exist in many countries. I'd say the US actually really lacks trade schools and apprenticeship programs that you'd see in other countries. College is free in many parts of the world, bit that's also because fewer people get a liberal arts education. Many people go to trade schools. My mother is a retired doctor, but she went first to a two year trade school for accounting. Only later did she go back to study medicine. My father went to a trade school to study journalism. My uncle did an apprenticeship program for electrician. My cousin did a trade school for culinary arts, nephew did sports medicine. They're all free, but they aren't four year university programs.

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#10

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group I beg people to get off Reddit and actually spend time in their neighborhoods or actually talk to people.

Americans are incredibly resilient, hard working people who always want to see improvement. We know we’re not perfect, but ffs, the smallest story about “America bad,” will flood the front page, and anything seen as success is treated as the ills of capitalism and America.

If you visit any American city, you’ll see that it’s very progressive, and people are happy, polite and want everyone to be who they are. It’s easy to get trapped in the clickbait headlines, but remember that Reddit is a big karma farm and doesn’t reflect real life.

I came from a very poor upbringing, a large urban public school and was able to graduate college and create a pretty comfortable life for myself. I’m not rich by any means, but my life is pretty good. I don’t think I could’ve had this life if I lived in other parts of the world.

Visit an American park on a Saturday. At least where I live you’ll find diversity, natural resources, friendly people, families and no judgement. We’re not what the extreme right wants us to be and we never will. We don’t wait for the government to do something for us. If we want something we build it. And if people like it they support it. You can’t stop an ambitious American. I’ll kindly accept your downvotes now.

Ok-Try4295 , Ricardo Esquivel Report

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RafCo (he/him/ele) 1 year ago

I've lived on every continent except Australia, and on both US coasts, plus Chicago. I'd say of all those places, the East Coast of the United States suffers the least xenophobia. Particularly the area between New York and Richmond Virginia. Too far north, or too far south, and problems arise. The West Coast has a real problem with racism, as does Chicago. Europe and Asia both have major issues with xenophobia. As does Africa and Latin America, though it tends to be directed at specific groups.

6points

#11

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group If I don’t like where I live I can go somewhere thousands of miles away that has completely different laws, culture, and climate and don’t have to get anyone’s permission to do so.

SiegeGoose , Brett Sayles Report

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Thegoodboi 1 year ago

Ahh to be some one who can afford to pack up and just go

18points

#12

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group We have large gatherings and bad mouth our leaders without even giving it a second thought.

littlemarcus91 , Keira Burton Report

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RoanTheMad 1 year ago (edited)

we do this in the UK too, if you go to soundcloud and search "fry ups boris is a c**t" its an absolute bop. xD

25points

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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group I moved to Germany almost 3 years ago and I can tell you what I miss: how goddamn friendly Americans are.

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RoanTheMad 1 year ago

tbf, you DID move to Germany... (jk, Germans can be amazingly friendly, but socializing in Germany is entirely different to socializing in America xP)

23points

#14

Jazz

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RoanTheMad 1 year ago (edited)

omg yes.

13points

#15

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group
I believe I once read that Americans are among the most charitable people in the world.

Honestly most people I know are really pure, kind individuals. It's a shame we get such a bad rap

jepeba6353 , Lukas Report

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Stardust she/her 1 year ago

The bad people of America don’t represent the average person but they unfortunately are very loud so they end up representing the country

52points

#16

As an immigrant from CCP's China:
The rule of law is the number one thing that gives you a sense of security.
In countries rules by the people in power, you are simply doomed if you are born into a poor family. The educational system is corrupted, the court system as well, the government as well.
If you don't have the money and connections, your life is qualitatively different from those who do.
Of course, the capitalist rush for gold in the 90s-2010s created the super rich class and gave them a lot of power in addition to the political figures, but the recent crackdown on the biggest tech forms show you who the real boss is. Jack Ma had to disappear; Tencent basically bent down to CCP to continue its reign of internet, TikTok is probably doing everything the CCP want.
Without the true rule of law, a citizen will always feel destined to fail in life regardless what you strive to be.
The US legal system may be flawed, but it is definitely the most rehearsed and tested system of practice in the history of the world.
I have 1000% more confidence in it than anything from my country of origin.

nathanwhut Report

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Agfox 1 year ago

"The US legal system may be flawed, but it is definitely the most rehearsed and tested system of practice in the history of the world." From Wikipedia, the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Justice_Project) is a quantitative assessment tool designed to offer a detailed and comprehensive picture of the extent to which countries adhere to the rule of law in practice. The US is rated #26. Having said that, I'm happy OP has found a Country in which they feel 'safe', for want of a better word

9points

#17

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group I feel like entertainment is something the US does extremely well.

Want to go to a show? The US has you covered regardless of how niche your taste is.

TheFergPunk , cottonbro studio Report

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Queen fhk 1 year ago

That's why we appreciate the effort, flawless execution of movies in Hollywood with top notch visual and sound quality... Honestly nothincan beat American movies

7points

#18

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group The ability to get in your vehicle and drive wherever you want to see the vast natural beauty of the US and to experience the diversity of different regions and ways of life

P4S5B60 , Dominika Roseclay Report

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Zophra 1 year ago

I think I read somewhere that America's infrastructure was built for cars.

21points

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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group I hear the BBQ is pretty good.

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34points

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Cityhamster 1 year ago

The best!!

13points

#20

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group My opinion: *opportunity*. In spite of all of its faults, America is still a country that offers some of the best opportunity to find work and being able to survive and even prosper. I've spent some time overseas in some rougher places when I was in the military, and while I recognize that we're not perfect and we can do better, I'm still thankful for the opportunities we have here.

Howboutnow82 Report

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RafCo (he/him/ele) 1 year ago

Statistically speaking, your seven times more likely to move up from your economic quintile in Canada, than in the US. But yeah, the US has lots of jobs.

0points

#21

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group The huge variety of everything is great. The best thing is the people though. You have so many good people. Of course you have more than your fair share of bad people, but I can live with that. Yin and yang. Your very best are amazing, your ordinary are terrific. There is so much talent but the sad thing is you don't know what to do with most of it, so it goes to waste.

ukhamlet , fauxels Report

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31points

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Kali Chaos 1 year ago

This is the truest thing I've seen on this list. Much love to you.

7points

willmannix123 , The Lazy Artist Gallery Report

#22

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group 1, It has almost every climate/terrain you can think of. Desert, forrest, tropical, mountains etc.

2. Anything is possible mentality. As someone from Europe, I find we are stuck in our ways and hold on to tradition a lot more than Americans. This is cool in some ways but can hold us back in terms of ingenuity when it comes to things like food and technology. The Americans aren't afraid to put Pineapple on Pizza for example where as you would be chased out of Naples for trying such a thing.

3. Highest cultural output of any country in the world. Most trends in movies, technology and music can be traced back to America.

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TeenieMeanie 1 year ago

While I would love for the US to take credit (‘cause it’s delicious) the Hawaiian pizza was invented by a Greek-Canadian in Ontario.

20points

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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group huge variety of grocery products.

hukep , Pixabay Report

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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago

Would be good to use an actual American grocery store image instead of a South African one

39points

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#24

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group The Diversity.

America gets s**t on about racism all the time (not saying it doesn't exist), but is very little talked about when it comes to diversity. We have entire sections of cities and even towns that are dedicated to specific minority groups.

Take for example German, want a slice of Germany? we got that in Kutztown, PA.

Cuban? Southern Florida.

Mexican? So Cal or Texas for your huge communities

Chinese? Any major city has a China Town

Korean? Almost as big as China Towns in major cities, the most famous one being LA.

Irish? Boston

List is really endless. If you want something their is a slice of community for that nationality.

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25points

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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago (edited)

I may be wrong but large communities keeping to themselves, whilst it is diversity, it is not exactly integration.

18points

J 1 year ago

I believe that OP is really just pointing out the hotspots. Centers for ethnicities, like restaurants, or temples, or anything like that can be found even in some of the smallest towns.

5points

Nonesuch 1 year ago

Texas has a large German population too. New Braunfels

3points

Chewie Baron 1 year ago

You can get all that in one city here in the UK. London.

2points

madbakes 1 year ago

New York

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

We're very similar in my hometown Johannesburg, we have all those ethnicities except Koreans/Japanese.

2points

Michelle C 1 year ago

Baltimore, Maryland, and vicinity have that, too. My family tree is filled with folks who came from everywhere one can imagine and also contributed heavily to what Baltimore is, too- even with the drawbacks of living in or near a major city!!

1point

#25

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Access to goods. Not prices, but access.

TurfMerkin Report

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24points

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UltimateSwiftie 1 year ago

i CAN buy Gucci if i wanted to ( and had the money)

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#26

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Yk some people might disagree with me but many Americans are the nicest most hard working people you'll meet. I'd also obviously say our natural landscapes scenery even here in Michigan you'll be surprised how cool some places are. Funny enough went down to Detroit recently despite yk being Detroit I like how old it is, and how the architecture was.

I feel like one thing a lot of people should think about is how a lot of Americas appeal is also in it's small towns, like you can't understand the world unless you know a place like Missouri.

PatrickYoshida , Josh Willink Report

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23points

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RoanTheMad 1 year ago

Detroit has some amazing architecture, ngl. I love art deco styles of architecture and such, it's a shame about what happened there over the course of the years, but hasn't there been a lot of revival/resurgance there?

16points

#27

As someone who lived in Europe half my life and has travelled extensively and is a person of color. It is very clear that the USA has put alot of effort in establishing vocabulary and dialogue around race relations that has been adopted world wide. Europe really lacks the entry points to have honest conversations about race. They are either too scared to say anything at all or end up using very inappropriate/prejudicial vocabulary to communicate their thoughts on race and immigration. **HOWEVER** I think they know this and are trying to figure out how to establish these conversations while still embracing their culture which is rooted heavily in the colonization of others.

Citydweller4545 Report

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Yep as an African I can confirm. EU people are really jumpy about talking about race issues. We appreciate the frank conversations more than the polite evasions.

10points

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30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Bigfoot

zipmygoose , Gratisography Report

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Sue Mullen Andersen 1 year ago

I live near Seattle, Washington in the USA and will share that we have BIgfoot Coffee shops here. LOL

14points

#29

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group As someone who lives in Europe and never even been to the US, I feel like the US is basically the centre of modern civilization and culture, no matter how defensive everyone else gets about it.

kolyambrus , Vlad Alexandru Popa Report

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21points

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RafCo (he/him/ele) 1 year ago

Certainly technology. The US economic system is geared for rapid development and ease of going to market. For all that's good and bad, it's definitely true.

6points

#30

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Cream of crab soup in Baltimore MD

jasonfahy , Snapwire Report

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14points

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Johnnynatfan 1 year ago (edited)

I’m from Maryland you don’t have to go to Baltimore to get good crab anything. As a matter of fact there are much better places to get crabs and crab related food on the eastern shore. Also if you’re a tourist visiting Maryland skip Baltimore.

1point

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#31

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Variety of landscapes, lifestyles, and culture. You can choose a region/state that suits you and your lifestyle/beliefs. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. You are free to be. While in no way is the US perfect (no place really is), and there are a lot of f****d up people, and we need to fix our Healthcare system, it still has a lot going for it.

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8points

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Justin Trouble 1 year ago

Explain florida then.

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#32

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Broadly speaking, the level of ***quality*** is high in many areas of daily life: white collar jobs, music, movies, TV shows, national parks, sports, doctors, ADA, technology, brands, university education, and so on.

Obviously there are many areas of low quality that need to be addressed (policing, insurance, etc), but Americans tend to take for granted the general goodness of many things.

CandidateNo1172 , Spencer Davis Report

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

As an African I found infrastructure in EU VASTLY better than American in almost every respect. The ONLY stuff that was visibly better than EU was friendliness and space. Food: worse. Infrastructure: worse.

0points

#33

Turn corn into things that are not corn

IdaRBrunson Report

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Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago

Corn flour. Corn meal. Corn syrup (not great, but an example). Popcorn. Corn starch. Pretty versatile vegetable.

3points

#34

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group Medical care, now before everyone rips my head off, it’s not how affordable the medical system is for everyone, it’s the quality of doctors we have.

TrickOut , Ksenia Chernaya Report

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Justin Trouble 1 year ago

It is absolutely is about the affordability, it doesn't matter how good a doctors is if you have no access to them.

27points

#35

European here,

Lots and lots of space!

Great driving infrastructure.

Drag racing!!

Cheap AF compared to Europe

donemep904 Report

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ColorEd 1 year ago

Europe is not a single place!

3points

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#36

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group USA is a great place to be an engineer. We pay our engineers better than any other country. If you can get a relatively inexpensive degree in engineering then you can most likely swing middle class no problem

jepeba6353 , Polina Zimmerman Report

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Agfox 1 year ago

A simple Google search shows this claim is largely wrong - also, a lot depends on the type of engineering involved

6points

#37

30 Things That America Does Better Than Many Other Countries, According To Folks In This Online Group 1st Amendment. Seeing other countries Governments go after people for saying s**t they don't like is terrifying. Especially what is happening to that one Australian dude right now and has happened to him. Someone can remember who he is cause I can't. He was exposing corruption or something. We are extremely lucky to have our 1st Amendment here in the States.

2nd Amendment is pretty cool if you are a law abiding citizen like myself. Just sucks when unstable c***s get ahold of a firearm. Being able to go outside in my woods and just blast off insane amounts of firepower on a Tuesday afternoon is neat. Being able to go down to my local gun store and pick up a new pistol, rifle, or shotgun whenever I want is neat.

Our national parks. Holy f**k our parks. We got parks all damn day and they are next f*****g level. Like, seriously.

The culture. Lots of foreigners for whatever reason like saying the USA has zero culture. Like, b***h. We have a stirring pot of people from LITERALLY every part of the world here. They bring that culture with them. They marry outside their culture a lot thus mixing cultures which in turn spawns newer cultures. Making little babies with their own culture when they get older and the cycle continues. I don't think I said culture enough......

franktato , Sora Shimazaki Report

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Surenu 1 year ago

I think the reason so many people say the US have no culture is that they are exposed to it every day. Like the smell of your own house, you stop noticing it, eventually insisting there is none. Once you start making the conscious choice to notice it, however, it's there. That requires a modicum of effort however, and we can't have that.

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#38

America is the best at:

1. High water pressure and actually hot showers in hotels vs the weak tepid showers in the rest of the world

2. Costco, and similar giant warehouses featuring a ridiculous cornucopia of material goods. Yeah, other places have Carrefour and Robinsons and Tesco and whatever. Costco wipes the floor with them in quality, selection, and cost.

divijulius Report

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RoanTheMad 1 year ago

where in the rest of the world have you been that showers have been "weak and tepid" ? o.O I've travelled a fair bit and every shower I've taken has been fine. If you travelled and stayed in super cheap hostels or something then maybe that's why but otherwise, showers are fine xD

11points

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#39

Can’t really put my finger on it. I travel to Europe regularly and when I’m in the US, I keep thinking I can’t wait to go overseas to experience true history and culture, and when I’m overseas, I keeping thinking I can’t wait to go back home.

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RoanTheMad 1 year ago

homesickness? a yearning for what's familiar? Pretty normal when travelling anywhere, experiencing exciting new things, yet at least, for me, whilst I love experiencing these things and seeing all the sights, a part of me wants my "home comforts"

6points

#40

Salaries (I work in Tech)

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RoanTheMad 1 year ago

nah, I'm sorry but no. If workers in the US got paid proper salaries then there wouldn't be such an insane tipping culture.

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Amanda 1 year ago

It's really nice to see a pro-America thread.

28points

Carrie B 1 year ago

But don't read the comments. Appearantly we aren't allowed to talk about positive American things because everyone else does the same or better.

12points

Bill Evs 1 year ago (edited)

As a Brit who has travelled to America several times the thing I love most is the people. The Americans you generally encounter day to day there are genuinely the nicest people I have ever met. And Americans who I have encountered in the UK have been even better, really interested in learning and experiencing a new culture (and they were willing to get into a good old round of drinks too).

23points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Come visit me. I don't drink, but I can give you a tour of the local homegrown booze :-) We have whoel tours dedicated to basically pub crawling, only through wineries and breweries!

6points

Lesbiancats 1 year ago

Finally a thread about good American things. To bad a lot of people are being really negative and not a lot of upvotes :(

20points

Gg 1 year ago

In the middle of this post was a giant ad that just said "CINNABON DELIVERS" and I absolutely thought it was part of the list.

15points

Stardust she/her 1 year ago

One thing I like about America is how clean it is compared to my country and how little the crowd is despite being the 3rd most populous country. I like these kinds of posts, it’s a nice change from having mostly posts bashing on America. I know they’re not perfect but they have at least a few good things about them that makes them unique

11points

Brobro McDuderson 1 year ago (edited)

Whoa…first a positive piece on men this week, now a positive US thread? What’s going on lol. Kudos BP!

10points

Mimi M 1 year ago

Pos piece on men? Link me!

0points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Everywhere has positives. Those are often a matter of taste, perspective, and cultural upbringing. No need to be so grumpy, everyone. :-)

8points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)

They forgot a super important point: We (the world) owe most of our technology and progress of the 20th century to USA. Speaking as an african who the last US president said, I allegedly live in a shithole, well. Still. NASA. Silicon Valley. Tesla. Boston Dynamics. OpenAI. This is amazing stuff. Above everything else, above hollywood, this and this alone is America's claim to fame which GIVES them the right to claim status as possibly the greatest nation ever. I hate to admit it. They're pretty mediocre at everything else (as we see from the above examples). But the technology innovation man, jesus that is amazing.

7points

Tree P 1 year ago

Yeah, so sorry about that embarrassing turd! He doesn't speak for all of the US.

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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago (edited)

Many nations have many great things, this post is a celebration of what America has, it’s not ‘what makes it unique’ or ‘what do Americans have that no one else does?’. It’s a bunch of folk highlighting the stuff that makes them happy, feel proud, enjoy their country and that they want to share. Long may their nation provide these moments and pleasures. Me? I’ve visited and my two abiding memories are the people I shared time with and the Rockies. Both beautiful in so many different ways.

6points

Diemond Star 1 year ago

I just don't understand why so many people are very negative when it comes to America. Yes we have our negatives but we also have many more positives that outweigh them.

5points

Arvydas Opulskis 1 year ago

How no one mentioned space programs where America is really on top and whole world is benefiting from it? NASA, SpaceX, etc.

5points

R Dennis 1 year ago

No one mentioned air conditioning. I don't care what anyone says, a/c is awesome!

5points

Carrie B 1 year ago

Becky's never been to Texas in August.

1point

BravePanda 1 year ago (edited)

The US is so clean. This week, I saw someone intentionally litter. It had been years since I saw someone throw sizeable sized trash into nature. Usually, it something tiny like a bit of paper, or something blowing away, or falling out of the door of a car. ETA: Most urban litter I've seen is intentionally abandoned like a bottle on a window sill, or a wrapper near trash but not in.

4points

goldyy 1 year ago

since you guys wanna take it for granted, your LONG A*S holidays. 3 MONTHS. 3 MONTHS OFF SCHOOL IN A ROW?

3points

gerard julien 1 year ago

40 weeks off per year in Denmark, 36 in France !

1point

Exotic Butters 1 year ago

Not sure I trust this enough to read. If it's BP then it's most likely a pile of jealous Europeans giving backhanded compliments. Think I'll pass lol

2points

LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

There’s a lot of sweet comments, but there are also some rather nasty one from readers still claiming that Europe is better. It’s mind boggling and really sad how close minded some people are on this site.

6points

Sanchi 1 year ago

I swore that for every negative us article I’d say something bad about Lithuania, but well… ok Lithuanian sand dunes are beautiful, and their social security and work-life balance is secure and healthy

2points

Mimi M 1 year ago

Bless you. Hell hath frozen over and I'm happy about it!

1point

Glen MacLeod 1 year ago (edited)

Yes, thank you for this discussion. I've been to the UK and Europe and saw much that I loved and had no problem chatting with people, as a visitor. But so much of America is wonderful. Natural beauty, standard of living, kind generous people. But the media here and abroad hype on about the negative. Racism does exist, from all sides. But I am surrounded daily by people in minorities who have better jobs, income, cars and housing than I do (Brit/Scandi descent.) They've worked hard, taken advantage of education and gotten ahead. I've lived in CA, MI, MA, SC, FL and TX. People have been kind and generous everywhere. It's not perfect, but we strive. Anyone who comes here and chooses to do what it takes to make this home becomes American.

0points

DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago

The dominance of long-term fixed rate mortgages that carry no pre/early payment penalties! This makes home ownership within the reach of pretty much anyone. I was shocked to learn that in much of the world adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) dominate and/or the terms are short and/or include pre/early payment penalties!

0points

Little L 1 year ago

Can BP just stop with these posts that is all about America?? Seriously. There's a whole world outside it you know, and I want to read about that.

0points

Well-Dressed Wolf 1 year ago

Seeing as BP usually posts America-bashing/criticizing posts, this is refreshing. And exactly how many posts do you think are “all about America”? I read BP daily and this is the only article about America I’ve seen lately. There’s been TONS of articles like “x number of awesome facts around the world” and “x number of photos from this non-American locale” lately. You seem perhaps a tad sensitive in this regard, perhaps?

13points

PeridotPlatypus377 1 year ago

It’s true that there are plenty of posts about America but the difference is this one is actually positive. Please can we just enjoy this while it lasts? As far as I’m concerned it already stands out from normal BP American posts for this reason alone.

7points

LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

Hey Little, perhaps people from the United States would actually enjoy seeing parts of their country portrayed in a positive light on this website. BoredPanda staff and some of the users on this website have been notorious for bashing the United Stats. If you don't care for it *gasp* nobody is forcing you to read it! It's that simple.

4points

RafCo (he/him/ele) 1 year ago

I believe BP is a Lithuanian company

3points

Cityhamster 1 year ago

You’re kidding, yeah? It’s the complete opposite. Any of the few posts about the US are very negative. Pull your head out of your a$$

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

BP is a Lithuanian site which mostly scrapes stuff from Reddit which is American.

1point

Mimi M 1 year ago

No, we appreciate the positivity for a change.

0points

Mia G 1 year ago

Little L, the thing is that more than 50% of BP readers are from the USa so that's why they are obsessed whot them and want to keep their attention. I' m ok with it cos I love America but I can understand is bit annoying for people who don't care much about Mmmmerica.

0points

Tams21 1 year ago

I agree. It's nice to have a positive one for once but it would be nice to feature other countries more often.

0points

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Sanchi 1 year ago

Oh my god why, so jealous and fragile ego that when someone says something relatively positive about the us you must immediately say something bad. Wow.

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Bored Seb 1 year ago

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

So, when someone disses America, I now get to say it's b/c it's what they dislike, not necessarily a conclusion drawn based on better/worse comparisons. Cool. BTW, I'm America, and if I was ignorant about the rest of the world, I wouldn't get so irked by anti-American BP c**p. Have any of these people *been* anywhere outside their shiny first world nations? I mean, holy c**p...

7points

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Amanda 1 year ago

It's really nice to see a pro-America thread.

28points

Carrie B 1 year ago

But don't read the comments. Appearantly we aren't allowed to talk about positive American things because everyone else does the same or better.

12points

Bill Evs 1 year ago (edited)

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Come visit me. I don't drink, but I can give you a tour of the local homegrown booze :-) We have whoel tours dedicated to basically pub crawling, only through wineries and breweries!

6points

Lesbiancats 1 year ago

Finally a thread about good American things. To bad a lot of people are being really negative and not a lot of upvotes :(

20points

Gg 1 year ago

In the middle of this post was a giant ad that just said "CINNABON DELIVERS" and I absolutely thought it was part of the list.

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Brobro McDuderson 1 year ago (edited)

Whoa…first a positive piece on men this week, now a positive US thread? What’s going on lol. Kudos BP!

10points

Mimi M 1 year ago

Pos piece on men? Link me!

0points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Everywhere has positives. Those are often a matter of taste, perspective, and cultural upbringing. No need to be so grumpy, everyone. :-)

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)

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Tree P 1 year ago

Yeah, so sorry about that embarrassing turd! He doesn't speak for all of the US.

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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago (edited)

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Diemond Star 1 year ago

I just don't understand why so many people are very negative when it comes to America. Yes we have our negatives but we also have many more positives that outweigh them.

5points

Arvydas Opulskis 1 year ago

How no one mentioned space programs where America is really on top and whole world is benefiting from it? NASA, SpaceX, etc.

5points

R Dennis 1 year ago

No one mentioned air conditioning. I don't care what anyone says, a/c is awesome!

5points

Carrie B 1 year ago

Becky's never been to Texas in August.

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BravePanda 1 year ago (edited)

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goldyy 1 year ago

since you guys wanna take it for granted, your LONG A*S holidays. 3 MONTHS. 3 MONTHS OFF SCHOOL IN A ROW?

3points

gerard julien 1 year ago

40 weeks off per year in Denmark, 36 in France !

1point

Exotic Butters 1 year ago

Not sure I trust this enough to read. If it's BP then it's most likely a pile of jealous Europeans giving backhanded compliments. Think I'll pass lol

2points

LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

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Sanchi 1 year ago

2points

Mimi M 1 year ago

Bless you. Hell hath frozen over and I'm happy about it!

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Glen MacLeod 1 year ago (edited)

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DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago

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Little L 1 year ago

Can BP just stop with these posts that is all about America?? Seriously. There's a whole world outside it you know, and I want to read about that.

0points

Well-Dressed Wolf 1 year ago

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PeridotPlatypus377 1 year ago

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

4points

RafCo (he/him/ele) 1 year ago

I believe BP is a Lithuanian company

3points

Cityhamster 1 year ago

You’re kidding, yeah? It’s the complete opposite. Any of the few posts about the US are very negative. Pull your head out of your a$$

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

BP is a Lithuanian site which mostly scrapes stuff from Reddit which is American.

1point

Mimi M 1 year ago

No, we appreciate the positivity for a change.

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Mia G 1 year ago

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Tams21 1 year ago

I agree. It's nice to have a positive one for once but it would be nice to feature other countries more often.

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ProcrastinationStation 1 year ago

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Sanchi 1 year ago

Oh my god why, so jealous and fragile ego that when someone says something relatively positive about the us you must immediately say something bad. Wow.

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Bored Seb 1 year ago

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

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