I love lots of things about America, but also dislike lots of things. I do believe it's educational system is better, and the country overall gives people more opportunities. But then I don't agree with other stuff.

runtheplacered:

mokes310:
I'm an American and I plan on leaving the US as soon as I finish college. I personally don't agree with the priorities of the US and feel that I would fit in better some place else.

We're pretty much in the same boat. Although I still am not sure where I'd fit in at. Definitely not England, either, which I consider to be very closely related to the U.S. Cast aside the superficial cultural differences, and I'm not even sure I could tell them apart.

I suppose, but there are some very distinct and important differences between the two. Take health care for example, or public transportation.

I just couldn't raise a child in a country that believes not everyone deserves health care. Doesn't make a lick of sense to me.

fullmetalangel:

savandicus:
America is great because their adverts are HILLAROUS, i saw an advert there once for a 4 by 4 that was 'now able to hold up to 4 tonnes' and looking around you see that a large chunk of americas have these and i bet the heaviest and biggest thing they've ever carried with it is a broom. If anyone on the escapist can think of something a normal person would need to move a 4 tonne object then i'll give them a cookie.

how about a boat? where's my cookie :O

Or themselves, if they're a large family of some of the most corpulent people possible.

Because they used to be british, and they need to keep reassuing themselves that indipendence was a good move ^^ (J/k ofc)

I think its something to do with the psyche of americans, they do tend to be confident and loud (try living with my housemate), so mabyey their just saying what every other country is thinking (I.E. "My country is the best")

JakubK666:
BIG AMERICAN TEETEES!

EDIT: Also I love how few people realizes how badly that song mocks USA...

I had to explain to my mom that this song is intended to be satirical. I had no idea that other people had that problem.

Im sorry but this is like asking why do oreos go soooo good with milk! It just dose and thats that

I'm an American I should say. America is not the best place in the world. It's just a country. We've been under the control of war mongering, theologist, lunatics for the past eight years who believe that they're here by God's wish. My avatar actually expresses my attitude with this country pretty well.
After Bush is out of office and when Sarah Palin is safely back in her ice fortress, when Obama takes office I predict the national IQ to rise a bit.

America is awesome because...

the women are easy.

but that could easily be the reason why it sucks too.

Um... We have big things?
Sorry, that's all I can think of that makes us so different.

Aardvark:
There's no such thing as the USA. It's a myth perpetrated by the leaders of the Muslim world, who are in need of a Great Satan to keep the people distracted while they live like kings. They have callcentres and datacentres dedicated to generating all correspondence reportedly from America. All those US soldiers wandering around Iraq? Mercenaries paid to be there, pissing people off.

Between Canada and Mexico, there's a great rift that leads to the centre of the Earth. Canadians and Mexicans, the superstitious lot they are, keep well away from the precipice and don't mention it to anyone, for fear of demons stealing their souls.

I sense a sitcom!
Or a really bad mini-series.

But I prefer a sitcom. That would be so zany.

I particularly like the idea of America bringing some sort of answer to world poverty, i think this due to the mass of people in America.

one of the Millions in America will have an answer for something we need an answer to.
Although if they don't hurry up we will invent it or cure it.

I personally will not step foot in the US again. I went there a few times as a kid but now that I know and have a choice never again. What if your walking along minding your own business when some crazy guys comes up and punches you in the face and breaks your jaw. That's like 20 grand down the drain from hospital bills. Its like a sick game down there if your get hurt your broke.

I think Portugal is awesome.

Like all countries the USA has good and bad points. I like my country, just not the people who were in charge of it for the past 8 years. And that's it, really.

Portugal? were talking about America, if i was going to recommend somewhere to live i would go with Singapore.

Aardvark:
There's no such thing as the USA. It's a myth perpetrated by the leaders of the Muslim world, who are in need of a Great Satan to keep the people distracted while they live like kings. They have callcentres and datacentres dedicated to generating all correspondence reportedly from America. All those US soldiers wandering around Iraq? Mercenaries paid to be there, pissing people off.

Between Canada and Mexico, there's a great rift that leads to the centre of the Earth. Canadians and Mexicans, the superstitious lot they are, keep well away from the precipice and don't mention it to anyone, for fear of demons stealing their souls.

Shhhhhh! You're spoiling the surprise for all the other countries!

I'm an American, I don't think we're anything special and in fact dislike our capitalism and how it destroys things for everyone but the rich. Fat-cat bastards...

Crowghast:
I think Portuguese food is awesome.

Fix'd

I signed up for this forum specifically to respond to your question.

My response? America went and put a man on the moon because we felt like it.

A more elegant reason is this:

Gordon Sinclair, 1973:
"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.

I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.

Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 107? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women on the moon?

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times ... and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.

I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.

This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over... has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped."

(http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans.htm)

Are we perfect? Goodness no. Show me a nation that has done more for the world and we'll talk...

sheic99:

Jbird:
I think its awesome that the first black president is also a comic book geek.

I am suddenly happy I voted for him. Does anybody know when his inaugural address is?

Jan 20

Sensenmann:
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 are the only country whose citizens are allowed to say whether or not they think it IS awesome

To me, it looks like quite a varied country, lots of interesting natural landscapes in addition to big cities with interesting shit. It all starts going downhill when I start looking at a lot of the people who live there (not everyone, so don't get pissed off). America is awesome. Americans aren't.

America has some beautiful landscapes and a proud tradition of independence and freedom. Unfortunately, we also have a bunch of people who want to destroy the land for money, and a bunch of others who vehemently disagree with the idea of giving freedom to everyone.

America has done some great things, but Bush has so degraded our standing in the eyes of the world as to make us seem much worse than we are. Plus, with the recession he gave us as a parting gift, it'll be difficult to change that without destroying ourselves economically.

Neosage:
And to the guy above the people who made that song are Canadian.

It was written by Trey Parker, who was born in Colorado.

savandicus:

fullmetalangel:

savandicus:
America is great because their adverts are HILLAROUS, i saw an advert there once for a 4 by 4 that was 'now able to hold up to 4 tonnes' and looking around you see that a large chunk of americas have these and i bet the heaviest and biggest thing they've ever carried with it is a broom. If anyone on the escapist can think of something a normal person would need to move a 4 tonne object then i'll give them a cookie.

how about a boat? where's my cookie :O

No cookie to you, normal people dont have boats that they need to use a car to drive around. Boats can move themselfs :P. Feel free to try again though.

Oh come on, that's not fair, people use trucks to toe boats around on land.
Gimme my cookie T_T

fullmetalangel:

savandicus:

fullmetalangel:

savandicus:
America is great because their adverts are HILLAROUS, i saw an advert there once for a 4 by 4 that was 'now able to hold up to 4 tonnes' and looking around you see that a large chunk of americas have these and i bet the heaviest and biggest thing they've ever carried with it is a broom. If anyone on the escapist can think of something a normal person would need to move a 4 tonne object then i'll give them a cookie.

how about a boat? where's my cookie :O

No cookie to you, normal people dont have boats that they need to use a car to drive around. Boats can move themselfs :P. Feel free to try again though.

Oh come on, that's not fair, people use trucks to toe boats around on land.
Gimme my cookie T_T

Yeah, the ad in question was most definitely referring to towing capacity, not storage capacity. As in boats, trailers, other cars, etc.

I'm saying: What about other countries that have people voicing how awesome their country is?

So there's no single soul in Portugal with an outspoken praise for all that is Portuguese? I always find threads about America and Britain and Australia and in each one someone is talking about how much each of the other countries sucks/rules or has less/more of a something or better/worse of another. And it is always those.

I wanna hear about Portugal today. Any takers?

Xocrates:

Crowghast:
I think Portuguese food is awesome.

Fix'd

He is right, that's what I should've said.

Blues, Jazz, Hip-Hop, the art of deep frying everything, internet porn, good cigarettes, bourbon, skyscrapers, muscle cars, New Orleans, Ernest Hemingway, and most importantly the grid plan (used in city planning). When traveling abroad the grid plan is what I miss the most. I think the remedial child that designed London's streets was using an oversized crayola (also a US invention).

I don't think America is awesome, but I think it's good. I'd appreciate the nation much more if there wasn't nearly as much government, but hey, that's my taste.
I like the rights the Constitution grants the citizens (though, let's be honest here, the government can ignore the Constitution when it feels like it). I like the free market economy (though it's not nearly as free as it should be).
And I likes me some cheeseburgers. With French fries. "Freedom fries," while also being a silly name, reminds me too much of every ration in 1984 with the word "victory" preceeding it.

I am american and I don't like america, most european countries have just as much freedom as america. everything I do is from a different country, i read manga, watch anime, drink tea, call people infidels, and insult americans.

Oh yeah, and america doesn't have NINJAS

From day 1 Americans are brainwashed that they are the best country in the history of the Earth.

KaZZaP:
From day 1 Americans are brainwashed that they are the best country in the history of the Earth.

Funny, it was never overtly obvious and I still enjoy Portugal more.

Although I have always felt loyalty to California. If ever there was another Civil War...