Things you love about the U.S./Things the U.S. has done that you admire.

[Real Talk]

I made a thread about the negative. Here is a thread about the positive. Like the other thread, whichw as about the government, not the people, we should keep this one the same where possible.

I will begin with a short list. You add to it. I expect it to get rather long.


1) It created a system which made its people rich. I respect that (where it did not occur off the backs of others. Slave owners get no love, but they are not the norm).

2) Intelectual sponsorship.

3) Development aid.

4) Checking german and japanese aggression

5) Checking soviet expansion

6) Advancing technology

7) maintining a non totalitarian environment.


WHat are some other great achievements of the United States?

 

[Gardener]

WHat are some other great achievements of the United States?

Our melting pot society.

 

[Real Talk]

Our melting pot society.

Truley an acheivement. Even those who dont like the approach. The fact it works as well as it does in itself is an acheivement.

 

[Ambracia]

I made a thread about the negative. Here is a thread about the positive. Like the other thread, whichw as about the government, not the people, we should keep this one the same where possible.

I will begin with a short list. You add to it. I expect it to get rather long.


1) It created a system which made its people rich. I respect that (where it did not occur off the backs of others. Slave owners get no love, but they are not the norm).

2) Intelectual sponsorship.

3) Development aid.

4) Checking german and japanese aggression

5) Checking soviet expansion

6) Advancing technology

7) maintining a non totalitarian environment.


WHat are some other great achievements of the United States?

I respect that you went for the good after bad.

8) Being the most important force behind the spread of democracy since its foundation. (Not to say other nations haven't also had a major impact just the U.S has had the largest)

9)Founding NATO and being a major force behind European stability for 64 years and counting

10)Melting Pot (Already stated)

11)Founding the U.N

12) Its very permeable culture that takes influences from nearly every nation in some way

13)Its apparently internationally popular culture (I hear that the simpsons are popular in Europe, latin america and even some parts of Asia (I don't watch it often but I do find it somewhat fascinating)

14)Its massive and dynamic international economy

15)Its past immigration policies of the 1900s that I hope are reinstated

16)Freedom of the seas

17)The civil war which was the bloodiest conflict in U.S history at a time when its population was a fifteenth of its total now

18)Jimi Hendrix

19)The internet

20)We have a flag on the moon :lol:

21)I can go to any country in the world without having to learn the language

22)The vast majority of third world students and scientists come here

23) The cheeseburger

 

[Real Talk]

Producing the likes of both malcom x, and martin luther king.

 

[bub]

Liberating our asses in 1944

Marshall plan

Being a diversified country

 

[B L Zeebub]

Your administrations view on Europe.

Electing JFK

Electing President Obama

Smucker's Peanut Butter with Grape Jelly.

1941 Lend-Lease act.

The order does not show preference, just a jumbled mind

 

[lunecat]

FogHorn leghorn

Electing Pres. G. W. Bush

Classey American women

But basically and most importantly for being a Capatalist Democracy - when you think about the last 100 years and what could have been with all its Facist and Comunist tyrants ....

Also they have nice teeth - compared to most British people

 

[B L Zeebub]

FogHorn leghorn

Electing Pres. G. W. Bush

Classey American women

But basically and most importantly for being a Capatalist Democracy - when you think about the last 100 years and what could have been with all its Facist and Comunist tyrants ....

Also they have nice teeth - compared to most British people

**** me Luners my friend nothing changes, Im surprised you did not work in a Skoda reference:shoot:bunny:

 

[Real Talk]

Advancing the ideas of the right of 'self determinism' to colonised people in the early 1900's (even if it didnt apply its standard equally to itself).

 

[Joe Castro]

I can't think of too much - the belated help in WW2 is about the extent of it and even then they charged for their help.

 

[Mika-El]

We Canadians love Americans but have a love-hate thing going on. From an academic perspective its always been trendy to be anti-American. Certainly George Bush made that very easy.

We Canadians are basically slightly left of centre. We strongly agree with gun control and medicare and government regulation of our banks and a certain extent of government regulation of the economy and then pretty much are centrist about the rest.

So politically we would be pretty much Obama-ites and that is why in the polls in Canada he would have been elected by 90% of Canadians and why Clinton and Kennedy were very popular in Canada.

So as a general rule we get turned off by Bush-Chaney politics-that kind of brash loud approach where Bush just didn't care about anyone else and openly giggled at his ignorance of other cultures.

We Canadians are extremely polite so we like Obama politicians-people who are wordly, multi-cultural and charming. Bush was everything Canadians hate in an American and Obama is everything we like.

That said, while Canadians will complain about loud Americans who are ignorant of our culture when they come up, every Canadian has close American friends and most of us have probably seen the exact opposite of the stereotype and have met many polite Americans.

But we don't like loudness. I mean geez. Come to a ball game in Toronto and it is silent. People sit on their hands and you can hear someone way up in the rafters burp or pass gas. We line up to one kiosk when 8 are open.

People actually won't cross on a red light when there are zero cars.

I don't like a few things in the States many Canadians would probably agree with-the guns, the racism (we have it too I am not saying we are any better), excessive displays of patriotism, Gay Bettman the NHL Commissioner,
unfair trading practices when it comes to lumber and livestock), your watered down beer and moron hunters who come to Canada and pollute our parks and have no respect for the eco-system (we have our share of them to thank you).

What we like about America is Angelina Jole, Fenway Park, (we miss Yankee and Tiger Stadiums), the Red Wings, Sabres, Bills, Halle Berry, Michelle Obama's arms, when Americans complement our country (we have an inferiority complex), New York, Miami, (La Floride we call it-you will note all those fat men in G-strings on Miami CSI in those flash over shots are in fact from Quebec).

Me personally I very much respect and would say influenced by Truman, FDR, Eisenhower, civil rights legislation LBJ passed, the Kennedies, Martin Luther King, the U.S. constitution and legal activist tradition in American jurisprudence and now Obama and how the grass roots elected him despite everyone saying politics is a big corporate lobbyist's game.

For me RFK and MLK in my 53 years of life have been probably the most important Americans in terms of effecting my own views towards life.

 

[lunecat]

...- the belated help in WW2 is about the extent of it
....

Oh yes - you mean the "Johnny come lately" element, that was true. A bit like how the Communist Party of Great Britain opposed the war effort against Germany because of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, when they supported supported the Nazis because of their love of all things Russian .....

It is bit like today, when you still get these juneville communists that support Russia over everthing, not because Russia is communist anymore - but because they haven't the imagination to move on themselves.....