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“What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?” (30 Answers)

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Although Europe is often praised for its diverse cultures, historical landmarks, and easy-to-travel countries, we have to admit that there are still some aspects that could be worked on. Such as air conditioning or Mexican food, just to name a few.

Seeing this as an opportunity to get an upper hand in the friendly debate between the US and Europe, Americans started listing all the things their country does better than the EU.

From national parks to burgers, there are definitely some aspects in which the land of freedom shines brighter than its neighbors across the pond.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) I am not American but their National and State Parks system is f*****g glorious. Services, lands set aside and protected, information, knowledgeable employees, infrastructure. NO ONE else is even close. I have lived in 6 countries and traveled to more than 60, I still dream of American parks.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) The blues. Most music genres that came after the blues were influenced by the blues or based on the blues, especially rock.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Not paying to use the toilet

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The person who started this discussion told Bored Panda that what led them to ask this question online were all the things they were hearing about that are supposedly much better in Europe. “I figured there must be at least a few things America does better,” they add. Because they had never been to Europe, they became even more motivated to share their inquiry with the AskReddit community.

Something that the people under this question were most passionate about was the American National Parks. Indeed, America has an impressive number of 62 national parks, which puts it in 7th place overall in the world.

"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Free water in concert venues and restaurants. I was at a concert in Europe, and one bottle of water was the same price as wine and beer at the venue. It was really hot, and some people fainted during the show

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) BBQ and smoked meats. USA USA USA!

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Here in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles we have a Japanese restaurant owned by Koreans, chefs are mostly Mexican, and somehow no one is really fluent in English except for a few servers.

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Since the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) started keeping records in 1904, it has registered more than 16 billion visits. People visiting are mostly drawn to the vastness and variety of “America’s best idea.” The NPS encompasses 85 million acres, 150,000 miles of rivers and streams, and over 21,000 miles of trails.

"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Dealing with hot weather. I hear so many Europeans crack jokes at how we have A/C everywhere and how we dress in loose, baggy clothing that is mostly made up in t-shirts and shorts, how we have to have ice in all of our drinks, how we are always thirsty and are drinking every other second. But then Summer hits them and there are always a rash of articles of Europeans dropping like flies in the heat.

Put in some window A/C units if you can't put in Central Air. Wear baggy clothing. Stay hydrated. For Pete's sake, take some tips from people who live through this sort of weather every year.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) From what I read, disabled folks' accessibility, like handicap parking, accessible bathrooms, ramps, etc. I've seen this relatively often. is this correct?

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) The one thing I would really miss is the cultural diversity in every large city. Any night of the week, I can go get great Mexican, Ethiopian, Cantonese, Sichuan, Japanese, Korean BBQ, Soul Food, Jamaican, Vietnamese, Thai, Memphis style BBQ, other latin countries, tiki bars, Filipino, Mediterranean...

It really is nice to be a melting pot.

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Yellowstone National Park, which was established in 1872, is generally considered to be the first one in the world. Since its establishment in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, it has lost none of its natural beauty. The park offers such sights as geysers, hot springs, and grand canyons, making it one of the world’s most unique environments.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) I concur with this. I'm from New Zealand and have lived on both continents. The US is far easier to meet people and settle in

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Lack of cigarette smoking (although vaping has picked up in recent years)

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Free refills

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Theme Parks

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nancy 6 months ago

I agree with this one... the theme parks aren't as clean as other countries, but they are bigger (and the rollercoasters are bigger/better)

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FaceTime Audio 6 months ago

Disneyland is spotless.

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Julie S 6 months ago

Agree with this one

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Emma S 6 months ago

Yeah, the UK's biggest theme park is Alton Towers which is still fairly small by US standards. 👍

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Upstaged75 6 months ago

The only thing I know about Alton Towers is the terrible accident on the Smiler rollercoaster. I saw an interview with 2 girls who each lost a leg to it. :(

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marcelo D. 6 months ago

read the title slowly "things USA does better than Europe" doesn't in any way mean "things that only exist in the USA"

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) The interstate roadway system is pretty damn impressive considering how huge the US is and that only one country was involved in its construction.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Canadian here who has been to Europe and asia. This is subjective, but FOOD. Everyone assumes American food is bbqed burgers and hotdogs, but in reality the restaurant industry in the USA is competitive and delicious. They've got a good representation of many cultures with plenty of variety. People make negative remarks about huge portions contributing to obesity and whatnot. Just order smaller meals, or split it with your partner or family members and skip sugary drinks.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Central air conditioning is something we take for granted in the US. I realized this when I started hearing countries in Europe getting summer heatwaves and people dying by the thousands

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Ice! I am originally from Eastern Europe and have been living in the USA for over 20 years. I was visiting my grandma over there and on a particularly humid day, I ordered an iced latte. The barista looked at me horrified. she said they don’t have ice, so I asked her not to make my latte hot. She said ok… it was still piping hot.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) USA has the friendliest people in the world. This is coming from an immigrant who lived in many places around the world and the U.S due to my profession. It is also the easiest place in the world to do business as a foreigner because of how welcoming people are. In Europe and other places people put more emphasis on you being foreign when conducting business with you.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) I like that the streets are arranged as grids. It makes it a lot harder to get lost.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Sending people to the moon.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Movies/cinema/entertainment

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Software. Yeah, a lot of software sucks, but somehow, USA Software are most of the time the fist or the better option. There are a couple of exceptions like Tik Tok or SAP, but mostly USA software all around us

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Comparing as someone who had lived in France, the USA, and the UK:

Salaries. Vastly superior in the USA. Customer service is also notably better!

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Dryers. This was at least true comparing the US to the UK, who usually hang their clothes to dry, or have awful hybrid washer/dryers that don’t really work. Not sure if this is true across Europe.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Technology innovation. Think back over the last 50+ years, microwaves to iPhones.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) US it is still more open to entrepreneurship than it is in Europe. Lot of bureaucracy and all sort of regulation is holding back enterprising people. In the US all you need is good idea and willingness to put the hours into it and you can make it into sustainable business. You feel you can make it and have your chance in US, in Europe you are easily persuaded not to follow your dreams. Here in EU it is more going for socialistic utopia where you get cushy job and work until retirement mindset.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Mortgages. Thankfully we still have FDR's 30 year fixed rate mortgage policy. I know buying a house is tough right now, but it would be a lot tougher, and for everyone, if our system worked like the 1920s or like Australia or the UK.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Salaries for almost any kind of skilled labor. If you're in the bottom 20% you'll make more in Europe. If you're anywhere above that you'll make significantly more in the US.

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Nationalized postal service.

xX_420DemonLord69_Xx , Trinity Nguyen Report

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"What Are Some Things The USA Actually Does Better Than Europe?" (30 Answers) Work Ethic - the number of times I've seen Americans get up at 4:00am to hack ice off their pickup, before driving 200 miles to run an excavator all day, drive home in the dark and then work on building their mountain house for another 18 hours. It's just ridiculous

Their DIY stores are better too, they have everything, you can't even buy Sonotubes in my country without a trade account

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Adam S 6 months ago

Why does BP think there’s only the US, “Europe” and Japan in the world? And why so insistent that “Europe” is one homogenous mass?? These posts (and AITA plane travel ones) are getting really dull and repetitive, unlike the ones that focus on showcasing interesting or unusual things from around the world. More of those please!

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Dragons Exist 6 months ago

Especially since BP is European

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Learissa 6 months ago

These "America wins" and "Europe wins" lists are becoming cringeworthy ...

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Betta Fish 6 months ago

Agreed, almost all countries are great. I say almost because some have bad situations and stuff but yk what i mean

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Shayne Randlett 6 months ago

I've never seen so many butt-hurt comments on BP before. Every single entry has people raging about how some other place does whatever better. Relax guys - this is BP, not some official world ranking competition!

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JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 6 months ago

EXACTLY

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The Original Bruno 6 months ago (edited)

Well, I don't need to wrap myself in the USA flag, but I thought, "well, at least it's not a BASH-the-USA thread." WRONG. Every post had to be rebutted by the hate-America crew. OK, some clearly deserved a "uh, what we have that, too!" reponse, like the "nationalized" postal service. But we didn't need the claim that the interstate highways system was Nazi, or even conflating barbecues with cookouts (something some of us Northerners have been guilty of.). I'm surprised the post about how friendly Americans are wasn't met with, "Well, actually a Germanic caveman was actually the first person to smile at someone who wasn't from his own clan."

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Becky Samuel 6 months ago

I think the barbecue thing is a cultural misunderstanding. Most of the English speaking world uses the term " barbecue" to mean grilling outside over heat. I'm not even exactly sure what the American term means, but it seems to have something to do with smokers and stuff.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 6 months ago

So, we bashed Americans again, and now we're supposed to bash Europeans again? How about if we shrink the freaking pond, and title threads like "This is what my country is stereotyped as, how about yours?" Bring us together, not set us against each other. We're all Pandas, no matter where we live!

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R Dennis 6 months ago

Sadly, even on the positives of America, Europeans can't handle it in the comments... their fragility will be my downvotes for this statement.

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Auntriarch 6 months ago

It nearly worked didn't it *sad friendly noises*

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 6 months ago

Well, this is a positive thread towards the US. Please keep my rant in mind, though, for the next bashing thread.

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Mimi M 6 months ago

Ohheckyeah.

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Min 6 months ago

The absolute fury in all of the individual comment sections is hilarious. People are only happy when they're hating.

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The Problem With Censorship Is ******* 6 months ago (edited)

I thought people here were so tired of USA bashing articles... Yet somehow there's a comment under every post that yells "What!? But at least in Europe bep bep bep bep bep...!!1!!" I'm not an American, but wow... Some things ARE better in America, and they deserve credit for it.

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D0C 6 months ago

But.. But.. America is bad! Everyone in America is an obese, gun toting, bible thumping racist! I would know, I've never been and get all my knowledge about it from Internet propaganda!

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D0C 6 months ago

Wow, finally, a nice post about America-- Oh, oh no, wait, this is BP, Americans don't get nice things. Some of you in the comments are insufferable.

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Gabriel 6 months ago

I think it’s really funny that most of the comment sections were just Europeans trying their best not to admit that maybe, just maybe, other countries have unique things too!

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LH25 6 months ago

Even on an article that is supposed to be about pointing out things the US does well the comments are often either "we do that in other countries and do it better" or "no, that's actually bad".

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Menacing Duck 6 months ago

I find it funny that the majority of comments on the posts in here are pretty much "Oh, other places have this too"

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Ban-One 6 months ago

Well, an attempt was made. Good intentions of making a positive US-post. But a pretty wild mix of hit'n'miss. And some are hard misses...

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PFD 6 months ago

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Oh well, rage farming is an effective way of getting lots of engagement.

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Tamra 6 months ago

Yep. That's precisely why BP posts these things pretty regularly, because it typically gets lots of comments and traffic.

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Dragons Exist 6 months ago

To everyone: the title isn't "things that America has that Europe doesn't", it's things the US does better

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Emma S 6 months ago

Driving long distances. In the UK, anything more than a four hour drive usually requires an overnight stay before you make the journey back again. 😆

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Val 6 months ago

Why do we waste time by comparing countries? Every single country has its own pros and cons.

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John Harrison 6 months ago

"... ACTUALLY does better ..." What's this? Condescending assholery from BP "authors"? Well I am shocked. Shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.

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Corvus 6 months ago

(sigh) Most of these have been repeated a thousand times on other BP articles. And some of them are just plain wrong (e.g. the lack of air conditioning).

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Adrian 6 months ago

I'm a Brit living in the US, have travelled extensively, and agree with almost all of these. It's sad to see so much hate in the comments against America and Americans.

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JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 6 months ago

I love all the comments!!! So positive!! /s but really. You all need to stop. Every post I’ve seen has not technically been untrue, and while you guys do make good points, it’s really too much. I would love to see some positive comments

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JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 6 months ago

Also I would really like to say thank you to everyone who commented about the irony of the comment section and them not understanding the title, and smashing the US when you all wanted a positive US post. Thank you

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Mimi M 6 months ago (edited)

Well, gotta appreciate that hell freezes over - a positive US post from BP, whodathunk. But why not just make it positive - no need to throw shade on Europe in the process... And even the original was 'actually does better' - which was snide to the US as well. Can't BP realize that we *actually* don't like these posts that bash, stereotype, throw shade, condescend, etc?

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Tabitha 6 months ago

Wow. Lots of butthurt going on in the comments from the same people who complain that Americans get butthurt when they insult us, am I right? Obviously they can dish it out but not take it.

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SheamusFanFrom1987 6 months ago

Sorry not sorry, but the major thing US does better than the rest of the world in my opinion: Triple H's WWE!!!

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Isabel Galvez 6 months ago

A lot of misinformation here.

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Adam S 6 months ago

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Dragons Exist 6 months ago

Especially since BP is European

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Learissa 6 months ago

These "America wins" and "Europe wins" lists are becoming cringeworthy ...

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Betta Fish 6 months ago

Agreed, almost all countries are great. I say almost because some have bad situations and stuff but yk what i mean

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Shayne Randlett 6 months ago

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JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 6 months ago

EXACTLY

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The Original Bruno 6 months ago (edited)

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Becky Samuel 6 months ago

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 6 months ago

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R Dennis 6 months ago

Sadly, even on the positives of America, Europeans can't handle it in the comments... their fragility will be my downvotes for this statement.

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Auntriarch 6 months ago

It nearly worked didn't it *sad friendly noises*

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 6 months ago

Well, this is a positive thread towards the US. Please keep my rant in mind, though, for the next bashing thread.

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Mimi M 6 months ago

Ohheckyeah.

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Min 6 months ago

The absolute fury in all of the individual comment sections is hilarious. People are only happy when they're hating.

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The Problem With Censorship Is ******* 6 months ago (edited)

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D0C 6 months ago

But.. But.. America is bad! Everyone in America is an obese, gun toting, bible thumping racist! I would know, I've never been and get all my knowledge about it from Internet propaganda!

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D0C 6 months ago

Wow, finally, a nice post about America-- Oh, oh no, wait, this is BP, Americans don't get nice things. Some of you in the comments are insufferable.

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Gabriel 6 months ago

I think it’s really funny that most of the comment sections were just Europeans trying their best not to admit that maybe, just maybe, other countries have unique things too!

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LH25 6 months ago

Even on an article that is supposed to be about pointing out things the US does well the comments are often either "we do that in other countries and do it better" or "no, that's actually bad".

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Menacing Duck 6 months ago

I find it funny that the majority of comments on the posts in here are pretty much "Oh, other places have this too"

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Ban-One 6 months ago

Well, an attempt was made. Good intentions of making a positive US-post. But a pretty wild mix of hit'n'miss. And some are hard misses...

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PFD 6 months ago

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Oh well, rage farming is an effective way of getting lots of engagement.

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Tamra 6 months ago

Yep. That's precisely why BP posts these things pretty regularly, because it typically gets lots of comments and traffic.

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Dragons Exist 6 months ago

To everyone: the title isn't "things that America has that Europe doesn't", it's things the US does better

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Emma S 6 months ago

Driving long distances. In the UK, anything more than a four hour drive usually requires an overnight stay before you make the journey back again. 😆

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Val 6 months ago

Why do we waste time by comparing countries? Every single country has its own pros and cons.

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John Harrison 6 months ago

"... ACTUALLY does better ..." What's this? Condescending assholery from BP "authors"? Well I am shocked. Shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.

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Corvus 6 months ago

(sigh) Most of these have been repeated a thousand times on other BP articles. And some of them are just plain wrong (e.g. the lack of air conditioning).

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Adrian 6 months ago

I'm a Brit living in the US, have travelled extensively, and agree with almost all of these. It's sad to see so much hate in the comments against America and Americans.

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JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 6 months ago

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JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 6 months ago

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Mimi M 6 months ago (edited)

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Tabitha 6 months ago

Wow. Lots of butthurt going on in the comments from the same people who complain that Americans get butthurt when they insult us, am I right? Obviously they can dish it out but not take it.

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SheamusFanFrom1987 6 months ago

Sorry not sorry, but the major thing US does better than the rest of the world in my opinion: Triple H's WWE!!!

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Isabel Galvez 6 months ago

A lot of misinformation here.

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