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

Actually blues came before Jazz and both came from combining African and European musical concepts.

All those classic British rock bands you can think of didn't *borrow* from the blues. They drank it in, breathed it, worshipped it, then ripped it off sometimes shamelessly and other times at least with credit given.

I was so proud when I learned a walking blues bass line as a kid. But yeah the I - IV -V progression is absolute bedrock.

We have no gaps and don't pay here in Australia :)

oh how i long for stalls that have no gap 😔😔

Vast majority of toilets, excepting some public parks/train stations and gas stations, are very clean, and Europeans overestimate the gap size. Have you experienced our public toilets? There’s a slight hinge gap but not big enough to see through unless you stick your head to the door, and you can see shoes under the door, but nothing more revealing than that. No hate, I respect your opinion, but toilet gaps are overblown (also, I’ve been in toilets with gaps like ours in other countries, too).

Never in my life have I ever heard anyone complain about the gap. It's just not an issue

The "gap" that only appears on BP lists is approximately 1/2 inch wide (2 cm). The internet likes to act as though there are foot-wide spaces where people can stick their heads in a stare at you. They are also, for the most part, clean. I paid for some really disgusting toilets in England and Italy.

What are you doing in there that you don't want people knowing about? I mean, they already know the primary reason you ate in there, so.... Are you picking your nose? Playing tiddly winks? Watching videos on your phone (while the line waits)?

The average of 8 toilets per 100k people puts the USA in the same tier as Botwsana, Georgia (the country) and Poland. Mississippi and Louisiana are in the same tier as Ghana, Uganda and Mali.

If we talk of toilets/surface area, Paris has 6,72 toilets/km^2.. TWENTYFOUR times as much as New York (0,28 toilets/km^2). London has 0,39, Berlin 0,73.

Every grocery store and gas station in the US has open free toilets... dafuq you smokin? Remember, we are HUGE, but toilets are definitely incredibly easy to find.

and made worse in states like Wyoming and Lousiana and Mississippi (and a bunch of other red states) by the bathroom wars attacking women for not looking feminine enough using the women's restrooms. This has happened to several of my cis female friends, being attacked by angry women who accused them of not being "biological" women. Total insanity.

Iceland is not a member of EU.

you can not compare Japan and the U.S. After living in Japan for 5 years I have never in my life seem a people so concerned with cleaning up after themself. We should all try and be more like that.

They're allowed to charge for tap water, too. Just not as much.

Unless you are in Florida. It smells like chlorine.

Hmmm, sounds like a challenge to me!! And i select my champion - Malcolm Reed from HowToBBQRight

... and southern Brazil.

You are misinformed. Barbecue as we know it today has it's origins in the indigenous people of the Caribbean. The practice was witnessed by a Spanish explorer, and transported back to Spain, where it spread through Portugal, France, and England, before making it way back across the pond to the colonisers, where it adapted and grew particularly in what is now the southern states. Edit: correction to spelling and grammar.

There are European countries that do it as well! I am Romanian and BBQ and smoking meats is imbedded in our culture as well! We do it differently, as we prefer using wood and charcoal for BBQ as it gives it a more smoky flavor! There are differences, but we do it as well!

It has spread to middle America - Missouri

Yeah but isn’t this starting to change due to climate change? I always hear about record heat waves in Europe now. It does make sense not to have AC there. In northern parts of the US it was common not to have AC and no heat in the southern parts.

lol I live in the New England. We joke that we have 3 seasons: Winter, Mud, and August. It gets VERY cold here in the winter and pretty darned hot in the summers. We have insulation to keep the heat AND the cold in. Get an AC, they don't cost that much compared to the benefits (which include dehumidifying).

I have relatives in California who don't have AC either because they almost never need it. I wish that was the case where I live!

If you have the insulation to keep heat in then it follows you are also protected by keeping external cold and heat out. Even in Australia if you have something as simple as North and south only facing windows you can vastly improve keeping heat out of your home. I lived for 24 years without air conditioning simply because I just didn't need it. North, south facing windows in a terrace with attached buildings on east and west.

25 C is not in any way, shape, or form considered a "heat wave" where I live. That is more like a mild day in early spring or late autumn. Normal summer high temps for us are between 30 and 40 C, and even our overnight lows often don't go below 26 to 28 C.

I’m sorry 25C is barely hot. You don’t need AC for 25C unless it’s really humid. Our summers rarely go under 30, and 40 isn’t unheard of (Celsius)

Have you considered a heat pump instead? More efficient, so better for the environment. Apparently, better at dehumidifying too (if that's an issue where you are).

We installed air co too with pour solar as well. We only run the air co on hot days when the solar panels are generating enough power for them :-)