The United States of America clearly is not the happiest, most joyful, most livable, nor the most FREE country on Earth! (Especially when the distribution of wealth is far more equally spread in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France, and there are more poor people than rich everywhere.) How many cities and towns in the USA can you spend your lunch our outside at a cafe eating delicious food with fountains and accordian and take a nature walk? Very few? Perhaps Californians and Vermonters and Oregoners have it best here? Most of America is based on littered streets with ummm...Quiznos and Subway and Starbucks and McDonalds and KFC??? In the USA the social culture is that there is no need to talk to someone unless 1) They are a family/friend who you already know, 2) You are buying or selling something to a customer, 3) You need help with directions. In France and other European countries, you can walk up to a random person and say "Heyyyyyyyyy look at that Elm Tree, isn't it pretty? Or you can just sing randomly or you can do anything besides work to raise your status. A person who holds an office job and does the same thing every day from 9 to 5 is viewed as a lesser status than a street musician barely surviving, in some European countries, because the virtures are more in the right place. Sometimes I get really depressed when I visit Europe and come back to the states. The first day back from France, I end up waking up real early from Jet Lag, then racing to the nearest art gallery store to find their paintings are lousy and the frames are mediocre and the food tastes like it's 15 days old compared to France. ? So is the USA really that great? The USA cities that seem the most depressing are cities like Charlotte, North Carolina. where it's all financial financial financial. Fort Worth, Texas.... Oklahoma City Jacksonville, Florida Fargo, North Dakota Wichita, Kansas A bunch of boring boring boring cities.
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Because we are.....period.
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Because I was born in it.
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Because it is full of Americans.
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Americans definitely have much better personal hygiene than the French.
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who has the best military? We do Who gives the most charity? We do Who gives the most in humanitarian aid? We do Who has the most diverse population? We do Who has the best economy? We still do who has liberated the most? We have. Get out of here!
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1. Because we are arrogant. 2. Because WE ARE the greatest.
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It's not. The US is simply the last hope for a dying world.
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Well... if that is the way you feel, next time you visit Europe, don't come back. Things are a lot different when you LIVE there and aren't just VISITING.
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Your whole question is based around the principle that vacation is real life. I think you need to be disillusioned. You have to make the best of what you got...
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we now think it used to be since the last 16 years it has gone down hill
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"The country I live in is the best country. the god I believe in is the only god." These attitudes are pretty common throughout the world. Indoctrination probably has a lot to do with it.
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we used to be a united country until the soviet union fell, then all the liberals came out of the dark like roaches spreading their filth and destruction around
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Please move to another country of your choice. I don't think you'd ask that question spending a year somewhere else. (I'm talking taxes, gas prices, etc.)
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Move to France, if you like it so much!
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Next time you go to Europe, feel free to stay there. And do us a favor and don't vote absentee.
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Because it is human nature to like your own country over every body else's.
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"Because we are" You WERE :) "Americans definitely have much better personal hygiene than the French" Can't argue there :)
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cause it is
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lol LMAO Where do they find these people?
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Actually, I think my life is better because I don't hear random accordion music on my street. And it's not littered, it's very pretty. I am not completely sure you've ever been to America, honestly.
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Actually yes; one reason is we have the best real estate in the world. I was going to go on, but read more of your "question" and an awful lot of it is pure BS. I suspect you have never left the US. I have been to over 30 countries and am a citizen of the US and the UK. I have family in Europe and go every year, its great over there. But believe me, this is the place to be. Street musicians get more... never mind, I'm not going to bother...
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so get your ass out of the us
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Because it's true.
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We're not the greatest country on Earth, but we're damn near it and full of the capability to become it <3 Those that really love this country will criticize it to make it even better.
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BECAUSE WE ARE THE MOST POWERFUL ECONOMIC & MILITARY POWER IN THE WORLD BUT OBAMA IS WORKING VERY HARD TO CHANGE THAT
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Yes, capitalism really sucks doesn't it? Yes, just quit your job and become a street performer. It's so virtuous like you said. Much more than say designing a water system that delivers the water for your fountain to eat lunch around. What country always helps other countries when necessary? The United States. Who stopped genocide throughout Europe, through two world wars and even into the1990's (Bosnia)...yep the United States. We liberate countries and we always give them back. Iraq invaded Kuwait, we threw out Iraq's @ss and we didn't conquer Kuwait. We are in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban who is trying to take over the whole county there. I like all the countries you mentioned and they are our allies. I don't really care for France though, mainly because of most of the people. We have liberated them twice in two world wars, helped them rebuild their country and many of them hate us. I do like their president though.
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Well, I would say you have a subjective view of what constitutes a great nation. You see material comfort as more important than freedom, cafes and bistros as greater than American fast food chains. You see socialized redistribution of wealth as preferable to capitalist hard work and personal achievement. If I lived in France, my job would be secure, stagnate and assured no matter how poorly I did that job. Here, I have the chance to work hard, distinguish myself and thus gain status, promotion and pay. Not so in the great socialist Utopia. Here hard work is rewarded, there it is not. Work, don’t work, it all pays the same. If you prefer a system where you can slack off and still get paid marginal wages, then pick France. If you prefer to work hard and advance yourself, choose the USA.
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Because they have so little exposure to other countries through any forms of media and because they are brought up being taught from a very young age that if it is American, it is best.
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because the whole country is run by free masons,the church,and word of mouth that it is the greatest place on earth..even if it is not,the world were told this and like a flock of brain washed religious peoples we believe...oh wait a second itis to do with religion.. please just google presidents of free masons in the .. USA.. and you will see what I am talking about..
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It must be the greatest because we can't keep them out. Just like you they just keep coming back.
