Non-Americans: where do you think America is most successful?

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As a Canadian, I think there are very few things Canada can look to America for in terms of a role model.

The only subject I can think off of the top of my head is some of their self-defense laws may be superior to Canada's self-defense laws.

I know some Canadians who think America's for-profit healthcare is superior, though I do not.

I sometimes think they may have some things to teach in terms of wealth growth, but they have way too many problems with poverty, money in politics, and corporate/commercial abuse for me to think the success of one is not dependent on the complete failures of the others.

Basically, if someone gave you a list of very real concerns that affect citizens and politicians in your country and you had to pick which countries you thought dealt with those issues most successfully, which issues would you think America dealt with better than anyone else?
 
keeping a developed country with 320 million people in it
 
Im American raised so I dont kniw if you would completely see me as non American.

But for me it is the American property of being conducive to innovation. In Europe everyone wants to be protected and secure through the government, this makes the system less adaptive and dynamic.

Look at marijuana for example, the USA used to be the strictest country in the west, now Americans are legally producing the best weed in the world.

Americans understand incentive and know how to harness that power.
 
Depends on what you put value on. The US is tremendously successfull if you examine the exceptionals. Both when it comes to science, innovation and culture, they are a complete powerhouse. Combined with a military might that borders on the unbelievable, they pull a huge amount of weight for the rest of the western world (although not everybody agrees on the direction of the pull).

As an individual in Western Society though, I get the benefit of a lot of those things without being American. The cultural products and science is mostly freely available to me at the same time as the American population. And when it comes to the purely nation-specific things which affect me as an individual rather then just taking pride in my nations accomplishements - wealth, healthcare, job security, low crime, low poverty, guaranteed higher education - I'd pick living here in Norway over the US in almost every one of those.

Quality of life might on average be better here, but I'll just have to give a huge amount of credit for the things the US gives to my life which I value.
 
Being amazing...

Oh, wait. This was for non-americans. :)
 
Most successful? Entertainment. Though for every gem that comes from the US there's a whole pile of steaming shit.

Least successful? Healthcare. It's absolute shambles. Your country needs healthcare reform from top to bottom. If you get seriously ill over there you're financially fucked for the rest of your life if you don't have insurance. Heard a story that an Australian tourist had to be hospitalised on vacation and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. $400,000 bill. If that happened here it'd likely be $0.
 
they have the best constitution and declaration of independence.
 
I think the US has a better nature/spirit of competition; for example, I see US adds for cell phones, home television, mortgages, and as a Canadian it looks like such companies truly compete for business.
 
jazza said:
keeping a developed country with 320 million people in it
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This, our country is fucking huge, and we keep the best standard of living compared to any country even close to our size.

We are good at innovations. New things come from here.

We have the best MMA.
 
I think the Dutch could learn a thing or two when it comes to competitiveness and winner mentality. The Dutch would like nobody to be much better than anyone else and if you are, chances are people will berate you for "trying to hard". I think we should also be more proud of the things we have achieved.

On the other hand, situations in which social inequality or extreme wealth disparity are apparent are literally called "American situations" in the Netherlands.
 
World War 1 and the transfer of wealth from the European powers to the USA helped a great deal.
 
7437 said:
This, our country is fucking huge, and we keep the best standard of living compared to any country even close to our size.

We are good at innovations. New things come from here.

We have the best MMA.
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Yeah cause your social programs are almost non existent compare to rest of developed world...

To answer ts question

I think just brining all those states together to live under same roof called us.

From extreme conservative on one side to extreme liberal on the other. The only thing they have in common is USA. I've drove from Las Vegas to Utah it's couple of hours drive, but if was comical how totally different those ppl were. In one You can do whatever you what, in the other you have trouble finding a place to buy beer.

In any other part of the world those ppl probably couldn't coexist or live in same country. Or they would identify more with their region than nation. In us they all proudly identify as Americans.
 
On a political level being good at manipulating other countries, undermining their sovereignties and manipulating the IMF all while claiming to be indulging in some humanitarian mission so that American companies continue to be highly successful. Not good things in a moral way, but stuff which other countries can learn from to some extent when it comes to their own economic development.
More purely positive would be the parliamentary system and Supreme Court which although far from perfect in its current effects is still the best model for other countries to follow for the foundation of their systems I'd say.


Positive things relating to non-political people I'd say their customer service style and their college sports program which is a great way of nurturing new talent. Also I'd say at least compared to Europeans, Americans are more open to new ideas. Like here in the UK stuff like smartphones, tablets, laptops and making youtube videos caught on way later than in the US. Hell, even MMA being big in the US before most other places could be an extension of that mentality. More types of food sell in the US too compared to here. Here is just stingy I s'pose.

Their university system letting you choose your major later than universities in Europe is better I'd say too. Not sure how majors in other parts of the world like China, Singapore etc work though, maybe its better. High School system isn't so great though from what I've heard/seen.
 
I think America goes too far some times and that Europe not far enough. Somewhere in the middle would be good.

I like that Americans aren't condemned for being patriotic.

I like that they still instil a sense of competition in kids.

Obviously they thrive in entertainment(even though there's a ton of Brits involved in that industry).

I like that they have a strong military and think of it as a good thing.

Europe used too have all these things but somewhere along the way we lost it.

I would say that America does tend to go a little to far and seems to always have to go to an extreme so as I said Britain/Europe being a little more like America but with free healthcare and a little less extreme sounds good.
 
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