First Thoughts about America

They aren't great...are you SURE you want them?

 

Religious
Overtly Proud of country
Gun toting
Hamburgers
Obama

First 5 thoughts that flashed in my mind.

 

Dominant superpower.
Too much spying and too little diplomacy
Why do you need that big a military?
Insane gun laws
Massive geographic and racial wealth divide
Patriotism (however misplaced)
Some élite universities, but a terrible standard of education
The birthplace of jazz, rock, and country (the last one you still have to make amends for)
American exceptionalism *shudders*
Enormous cities, some beautiful, some not so much
Mutilated English, but not accepting those who don't speak English
A massive Spanish-speaking population
There needs to be an embargo on US goods in Australia, especially TV :lol:

 

Uh... sorry about this.

Patriotic
Insane religious fundamentalism
Imperialistic and militaristic
Just as shit as everywhere else
Ridiculous 'justice' system
Needs to stop being an international bully
Strange obsession with the constitution
They stole my political colours!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Greedy
Violent
Corrupt
Paranoid
An increasingly large % of poverty
Overly focused on the military

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birthplace of a lot of great music: Blues, gospel, folk, jazz, country which all fused into rock
lots of great fiction/literature
nice national parks
lots of foxes and skunks
huge amounts of fresh water (great lakes and area)
home of the world's biggest furry and MLP cons

 

It's got it's fair share of flaws and the political climate is awful, but it's home. And when my ancestors couldn't live freely as Jews where they lived, America offered them that opportunity, so I'm grateful for that.

 

Home.
Land of the free.
Corrupt stock market and law makers.
Clean drinking water (sorry west VA)
Lacking in manufacturing.
World leader in higher education.
Big ass military budget.

 

Come on, Aussie.... I'm sorry, but there is no right or wrong way to speak English. I think Brits and Aussies have a bit of a superiority complex about that. :dry:

I'll go for the positives of the US:
-Diverse landscape and people.
-TONS of stuff to do.
-Still has great TV and movies.
-Lots of tech startups.
-Strong democratic foundation... you have to start somewhere and someday maybe it really will be "Government of the people, by the people, for the people.."

 

Biggest blue water navy in the world
Some states are bigger than many countries (ever try driving across Texas )
Most boring looking currency
Our citizens love certain foreign cultures (e.g. Japanese, British)
What manufacturing we do tends to be in higher quality goods
Most Americans suck at geography.
Western states' laws are based on the Spanish system while Louisiana is based on the Napoleonic Code.
We haven't "officially" been to war since 1945

 

In regards to language, I don't have a problem with that. I prefer most american spellings. I mean, what is the point of so many silent Us anyway? American terminology isn't exactly unheard of here, and it's really just an evolution of language. Neither is wrong or right.

 

Home.
The Constitution.
Democracy.
Beautiful national forests and parks.
Much diversity in landscape, population, culture, cuisine.

 

Excess and misguided pride of the country
Exorbitant spending on military
Too big of a gap between rich and poor
A high poverty rate for a first-world country
Greedy politicians
Messy beaches, except for some of the only clean ones
A huge jumble of gun laws
Beautiful forests and nature
Insane politicians (cough cough, Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz, cough cough)
Land of the free! Wait, really?
Messiest separation of church and government
Diverse population
Great entertainment
Broken education system

 

McDonalds

other than that.. a large well developed country with English as the main language.

 

What thekillingmoon said. But also how we've brought the rest of the world greasy, greasy enlightenment.

 

I have to think about this a bit more before I say things I might regret.

 

My profile picture sums up about everything.. xD made it during art while having a hour long debate of the USA.

 

Best:
- more opportunities to be educated, entrepreneurial, and break out of a caste system
- diverse in its people and its geography
- fairly efficient and economically functional
- freedoms we take for granted that others don't have
- quality of life is decent

Worst:
- the rich are getting rich and the poor are getting poorer
- many uncouth, narrow minded, toothless hillbillies
- religious zealots and more rigid religiosity than in other places (sort of goes with hillbillies)
- losing its grip as a superpower
- education is sort of free, and sort of cheap (college), but medical care is not

 

How is this a bad thing? :lol: