Why is America so awesome?

[Glass_House]

They aren't that awesome. I mean sure I'd love to go there one day but meh. The main reason they are slightly awesome is because nobody will fuck with us while America is around. Besides all of the Americans I have met seem to love Australians. My mate went over there and they bought him drinks in an attempt to out drink him.... silly Americans and their weak booze.

Edit: And yes I hate the American government just like 99.99% of the world.

 

[Octorok]

This is no hate speech... Just wondering, and it angers me when people say that they, Americans are the best.

Infact, by doing this many who hate America for it's stereotypical hate of ROE. So its the clone of that french thread, but reversed and for America.

So why do you think America is Awesome.

NO HATE SPEECH

Because we kicked your Kings ass and sent your soldiers home with their tails between their legs! Just kidding.

I'm a United Statsian (Yep, made it up) and I definitely don't find the U.S. to be anything spectacular. It's just a country, like the other 190ish countries in the world. I've never been much of a patriot and don't believe in things like "Better dead then red!" So, I guess I'm not the person to ask.

I'm not American or patriotic, but I believe that it genuinely is better to be dead than red.

Communism is the root of all evil. Without a strong structure of consumerism a la capitalism then there is a bad economy.

Plus I enjoy being rich. I'm a conservative very muchly and think that if I had to be the same as everyone else then life isn't worth living.

 

[Neesa]

I'm American and America is just America to me. Guess living here for 21 years would do that. But we have our good and our bad just like everyone else does. We're just put on the center stage because of the media (who can totally go fuck themselves).

 

[AdamKane]

One reason why America is awesome is that we usually don't insult other countries like other countries insult us! Seriously, all of the insults I see on the internet flow from Europeans to Americans, not the other way around.

Another reason is that we actually like and respect other countries. We also like to help other countries.

America accepts a vast variety of different cultures, religions and ways of life.

We have freedom of press, religion, assembly, speech and the right to bear arms.

Seriously, if our country sucks so badly, then why do we have such a massive problem with illegal immigration?

deciding that intelligent design/creationism is a better idea than evolution.

Evolution is a lie! Charles Darwin himself said that there are no transitional forms in the fossil record. The following videos strongly refute evolution based on the fossil record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9obfIy0t2Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHE-6W6sEuQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDGDbeqRBV8&feature=related

The Bible is filled with scientific accuracies. The following are just a few examples.

The earth free-floats in space (Job 26:7), affected only by gravity. While other sources declared the earth sat on the back of an elephant or turtle, or was held up by Atlas, the Bible alone states what we now know to be true ? ?He hangs the earth on nothing.?

Creation is made of particles, indiscernible to our eyes (Hebrews 11:3). Not until the 19th century was it discovered that all visible matter consists of invisible elements.

When dealing with disease, clothes and body should be washed under running water (Leviticus 15:13). For centuries people naively washed in standing water. Today we recognize the need to wash away germs with fresh water.

There are mountains on the bottom of the ocean floor (Jonah 2:5-6). Only in the last century have we discovered that there are towering mountains and deep trenches in the depths of the sea.

The earth is a sphere (Isaiah 40:22). At a time when many thought the earth was flat, the Bible told us that the earth is spherical.

scripture assumes a revolving (spherical) earth (Luke 17:34-36). Jesus said that at His return some would be asleep at night while others would be working at day time activities in the field. This is a clear indication of a revolving earth, with day and night occurring simultaneously.

Hydrological cycle described (Ecclesiastes 1:7; Jeremiah 10:13; Amos 9:6). Four thousand years ago the Bible declared that God ?draws up drops of water, which distill as rain from the mist, which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly on man? (Job 36:27-28). The ancients observed mighty rivers flowing into the ocean, but they could not conceive why the sea level never rose. Though they observed rainfall, they had only quaint theories as to its origin. Meteorologists now understand that the hydrological cycle consists of evaporation, atmospheric transportation, distillation, and precipitation.

Light travels in a path (Job 38:19). Light is said to have a ?way? [Hebrew: derek, literally a traveled path or road]. Until the 17th century it was believed that light was transmitted instantaneously. We now know that light is a form of energy that travels at ~186,000 miles per second in a straight line. Indeed, there is a ?way? of light.

Medical quarantine instituted (Leviticus 13:45-46; Numbers 5:1-4). Long before man understood the principles of quarantine, God commanded the Israelites to isolate those with a contagious disease until cured.

Each star is unique (1 Corinthians 15:41). Centuries before the advent of the telescope, the Bible declared what only God and the angels knew ? each star varies in size and intensity!

Where did these ancient people get these scientific facts?

Kepplar, Newton, Einstein and Kelvin all believed in a God.

 

[gh0ti]

One reason why America is awesome is that we usually don't insult other countries like other countries insult us! Seriously, all of the insults I see on the internet flow from Europeans to Americans, not the other way around.

Another reason is that we actually like and respect other countries. We also like to help other countries.

God I hope that you're being ironic... or aren't an American. Otherwise you are reinforcing one of the worst stereotypes - just blind ignorance.

There's a book I think everyone should read if they're actually interested in why some states become more successful than others - "Why the West Rules - For Now". It traces human civilisation from the Ice Age to the present day and then speculates on the future.

It's pretty fatalistic - almost arguing that people and nations have very little control over their long-term success - but it is well-argued and very thought provoking.

 

[BlackSaint09]

No hate speech eh?
Well then...
Its the land of free speech! Unlike in say Russia,China and any other country with a not-so-nice-government!
Its full of rather optimistic people. And a majority of the english translations i get to all the good Visual Novels i still wanna play come from there(or maybe they dont im not completely sure of this... interesting got something to research now XD)
It aint really awesome but yeah. Its got a lot of good even if the bad comes in Far greater amounts!

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

I don't think there's anything else to be said.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

Fellas, let's keep the euro vs. america threads in 4chan.

US can range from the greatest of utopias, to disgusting poor slums.
just as every other country can.

Plus we have kicked ass in just about every war we've been in.

EDIT: We're all not religious nutjobs that will attack any foreigner on the spot. While there may be an abundance of religion in certain areas, other areas will say 'fuck all' to that.
Like my area

 

[emeraldrafael]

Hm...

Well, I dont know. Its a hypocritical country with its freedom of speech and this persecution of the wikileaks guy (though to be fair, I think other countries would do this if it were them. Or at least something).

Well, lets start with this. I'm American. But I've done some global traveling. And that stereotype is so untrue it makes my head spin. Contrary to internet opinion and our government's doings, we're actually really decent people. I would say what makes us awesome is that we have a wide diversity of people, and that we have a lot of respect for each other (I know, just trust me, the common people do).

Now, i wouldnt say America is the greatest country, but it is my home, and I wouldnt want to live anywhere else, cause I'm so used to this climate and region. Every country has its problems (some more than others), but I dont know.

TL;DR its not the greatest, but its home, and Fox news, the people you see who are trying to flame or are general dicks, and our government shouldnt be the guiding rod to what the average American citizen is.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

You insult us, we nuke you.

Now, what were you saying about America?

 

[PunkRawkSoldier]

Number the first, "better dead than red" is shortsighted IMO. Communism works at the basic level and is the ideal form of government. That said, it continually fails because the essential tenets are corrupted by humans as we are selfish.

As for the USA, I don't think it's awesome per se. I agree that they have given us plenty and tend to be at the forefront of cutting edge technology but in the end, I feel sorry for them as opposed to hating them. There is so much they get right but so much they get wrong. Nationalized health care? How can you say no to that? And, yes, I'm Canadian. Let the jokes commence.

 

[AdamKane]

God I hope that you're being ironic... or aren't an American. Otherwise you are reinforcing one of the worst stereotypes - just blind ignorance.

Yes, I am an American. I am proud of that. And you just proved my point. You just spouted off another insult in saying that I am reinforcing ignorance.

Most people in most countries are pretty decent people I am sure. However, it is people like you that make it hard for me to do something I want to do. That thing I want to do is love the culture and ideas of other countries.

 

[galdon2004]

Well, we donate billions annually to nearly every country in the world. Give tons of money and supplies to every place that experiences a disaster despite our growing deficit. We accept a huge variety of personalities, and cultures within our boarders. We basically saved the world in WWII.

Other countries get a bad idea of us because most people who go overseas for vacations are rich snobs; the rest of us normal Americans tend not to have that kind of money. Then the people who hunt down the 1 person in 10,000 who doesn't remember any geometry or something and record it labeling it as 'typical' also makes us look bad.

@PunkRawkSoldier: Yeah, I'd love national healthcare. Obamacare, however, isn't even remotely that. It boils down to mandating that everybody has to buy healthcare; if you do not buy your own health care you get audited and they see if you could have afforded it and fine you if they think you could have.

 

[open trap]

Personally im severly disapointed with the my country (The United States of America) Our pop culture is shit right now and over all we are just not what we used to be. Its kinda sad

 

[Ladette]

And that, boys and girls, is why we rock!

 

[Grimlock Fett]

All of the Americans I've met in person were very nice! Its a pretty big place so its easy to say it has alot of asshole but that's because you only ever notice the assholes when they're bangin on about how the USA rules the world! I'm sure the majority are much like the few I've met! I don't really get why you don't just add the VAT on to things before displaying the price! That annoys the heck outta me! And tipping!!!! 20%??

 

[Therumancer]

This is no hate speech... Just wondering, and it angers me when people say that they, Americans are the best.

Infact, by doing this many who hate America for it's stereotypical hate of ROW. So its the clone of that french thread, but reversed and for America.

So why do you think America is Awesome.

NO HATE SPEECH

Edit: Changed ROE to ROW. Im sure America dont hate ROE.

Well, one thing I think a lot of people don't get internationally is that nobody is more critical of America than Americans. Bashing the US is generally an issue because the people who do it from outside the country do it from a position of ignorance, or in some self-empowering way that puts things entirely out of context. This leads to cases where you'll find even a lot of the more anti-American US citizens going "what?1?!?" and responding with what seems to be a lot of jingoism in response. A good example of this is when you see arguements here where I start talking about the differance between "can't" and "won't" in regards to what someone thinks about America's intervention or potential invervention in a specific matter.

For the most part it's no big thing, I mean the dominant world power is never especially popular with the rest of the globe. The information age has made expressing that lack of approval easier than ever before, and admittedly has also been broadcasting American
culture to the 4 corners of the earth, where a lot of the dislike of America is a backlash to the slow globalization of the planet under American ideas, and the degredation of local cultures and national identity (note the word 'slow'). While dated I remember reading articles from nations like France, Germany, Spain, Russia, and even places like Thailand and Korea pretty much declaring Aaron Spelling the devil, and going on about how they needed to do something about the show "Melrose Place" which was becoming an international phenomena, and had people MORE interested in American trends than those locally, wanting to make things like they are here, and knowing more about the US (through the eyes of that show) than they did about events and locations in their own country. This is part of the entire phenomena where it's been argued that the US has been conquering the world with things like "The Big Mac", "Starbucks", and similar chains and media-based intellectual properties more efficiently than any military could ever have done. While I've never read anything saying so, going by things related to TV and movies I've read, I wouldn't be surprised if the international interest in video game deveopment is *partially* in an attempt to curtail the American slant on all the video games coming into people's homes. Even when you look at the material Japan was distributing, it's been argued for a long time that Japanese popular culture and American popular culture are similar enough to be almost the same thing, especially when you consider how much of Japanese pop culture was taken directly from the US. All together I believe this causes a lot of resentment, even if the general populance doesn't quite identify it that way, their leaders and trend watchers DO view it that way and that influances their attitudes as come through in their news, and the spin put on things, and that does in turn influance the people. Right now the US is in a wierd love/hate position with a lot of the world.

It's also noteworthy that being the world leader on merits of being the last remaining super power, that we also have the entire "world police" thing going. That analogy isn't because we're literally cops, as we were never appointed to that role, but rather we wind up acting that way. Whenever something needs to be done, we're inevitably the people who wind up having to do it, or at least form the backbone. Everyone hates us, much like a cop, when we're sitting there calling people on violating sanctions, limiting their trade (and the money coming into their economy), and other things, but at the same time whenever there is a problem the first thing that ALWAYS occurs is people looking to America for leadership and wanting to know what we do. That's one of the big reasons why there is so much global interest in American elections. During the last presidential race, I remember reading stuff on forums like this about people complaining about how the people in their country cared more about what was going on in the US, than right there in their own back yard.

At any rate, the point is that I don't think your really going to find many Americans who are going to sit there and scream the praises of the US from the rooftops. I mean honestly, we spend most of our rime doing exactly the opposite. Mostly when you see stuff like that it's from out of context, outside criticism. Outside criticisms that are made well and with an actual understanding of what's going on and the big picture, actually join the chorus of internal American bellyaching.

There is a lot that makes America awesome, stepping up despite how people treat us as opposed to just becoing isolationist again (which a lot of people want to), and even as a guy who thinks we need to backpedal on our morality a lot, I think there is a lot to be said for how well we've stuck to our principles even when it's been stupid. Of course for people out there bashing the US, they don't want to concede the morality issue because we wind up inconveinencing them at times. Nor do they tend to look at things from a big picture sense, or put things into the context of what the US can do, as opposed to what it WILL do. Most nations don't like to think about how the US has the abillity to destroy even a united globe, or that we could in theory pretty much conquer and annex any nation we wanted to. Looking at a measured response, rarely do people criticizing the US look at it from the perspective of all the options we actually have n the table (sane and otherwise) and put what we choose to do in that context, rather than the context of how whatever we did affected them right then and there. When you look at the big picture both in terms of acting with less "force" (militarily, economically, or whatever applies) or acting with more force, and what that would have caused, in a lot of cases bad things happen in a bad situation, but we're generally taking the least of availible evils, even from an international perspective.

Probably not the answer your looking for, but this is how I see things.

I'll also point out that you'll notice that while I oftentimes take a very pro-American (and very militant view) in a lot of global discussions, I also tend to be very critical of our own goverment, media, and other aspects of American society. I am hardly a mindless flag waver even if I am accused of being one in some threads. Heck, I'm frequently expressing positions that are in direct opposition to the political party in power and a lot of the desicians being made. People seem to miss at times, that while I'll talk about how I think an issue should be appoached when we're involved, I don't always agree with having been involved to begin with. Also I think people rarely bother to pay attention when I'm talking about short term cost against long term benefits, that could be 40-50 or even 100 years down the road. Doing something realy "bad" and unpleasant now, doesn't mean that in the big picture it's not going to do a lot more good. Agree with it or not, the end results I'm suggesting are usually positive for everyone involved, even the victims of unpleasantness right at the moment.

 

[Lord Rothschild]

hmmmm one country racing to the yanks when ever they need their booboos to be kissed and bandaided .... Austrailia every time America needs help we are there like hasselhoff to a dumb blonde who can't swim

 

[AdamKane]

I think it's ironic when other countries bash the United States especially since other countries have had a massive influence on the United States. A lot of our people come from other countries. The United States used to be a British colony for gosh sake.

Whether you'd like to admit it or not, the United States has been a lot of help to other countries. The United States wanted to stay out of World War 2. I bet a lot of people are glad that Japan forced us into helping other countries during WW2. Last time I checked, the United States ended world war 2.

The United States started the process to oust Sadam Hussein. Sadam Hussein was a very evil dictator. He nerved gassed thousands of Kurds. Sadam Hussein is no longer thanks in part to the United States.

The United States sends huge amounts of aid when things hit the fan for other countries.

I could keep going and going.

 

[WanderingFool]

Im an American, and im at a lost for words...