Thread: What is great about USA?

Agreeing with richmondesi, opportunity was the first thing that came to my mind. During the time of LBJ I, as a grammar school dropout, could learn a trade and make a decent living. I don't know if that is still the case since our politicians have sold the working class down the river for filthy lucre.

We grouse about the lack of it but we do have freedom in this country that few others can equal. I also agree with Paul on the willingness of the USA to help other nations who are in distress. From the Marshall plan at the end of WWll to our recent assistance to the Haitian people we Americans have always stepped up to the plate.

There are many other reasons and when all is said and done I am proud to be an American without claiming that 'we' are superior to all other nations.

The right to bare arms.....(Or wear long sleeves if you wish)

Seriously, The scenic and community diversification that can be seen within small sections as well as the whole. One place that comes to mind is the Cumberland Gap. On the TN side you have this small town named Cumberland Gap which probably has about 250 residents and a couple of quaint stores but on the other side of the Gap is Middlesboro Ky a city of about 40,000 with all the modern convinces. It use to be a trail over the Gap then a road but now a tunnel almost 1 mile long under the Gap. Once on the Ky side there is a road That takes you to the pinnacle overlook where you can see the "saddle" of the gap as well as the flat country that leads to it. There's still a cannon up there from the Civil war and many stories from those who have visited there before. There are places like this all over this country and I never tire of visiting them.

Scenery? Weather diversification? Come to Arizona

American greatness? There are so many ways to answer this question. I'll sum it up in our innovation. If it can be done we'll figure it out, and we don't mind helping others to do the same.

One thing that is great to me is that I can be in a class instructed by a woman and talk about religion and everyone elses ideas about death and the afterlife without persecution. Many many countries don't have that freedom. In many countries she would be killed and the class would be punished as well. Although we aren't absolutely free, we enjoy many priceless freedoms.

I had a family member who moved there after WW2, and when i was little i heard the stories from USA every summer when he visited here.
Of what i heard about USA was that everyone there has a change to get a job with decent salary to make a decent life.
I liked and still do like the culture where it is possible for everyone to have a life where it is strictly up yours to make things done.

Time has passed since i heard those stories and later i've also learned to know that USA has given to world some of its greatest writers and artists. In general, USA have had a great influence in the whole western world (both in good and bad) for the last 100 years.

I've met some people from the USA, both at work and at civil life. Some of them have been most hearty and gentle people i've known.

And lastly: you had the worlds greatest cars up until early eighties.

Mom, baseball, and apple pie.

......Duh!

My favorite thing is that it has the lowest levels of impediments upon the notion that your effort = your success.

You can move here with very little, work extremely hard, and finish with great financial security if that's your aim, which it so often is. Ask an immigrant small biz owner and they'll emphatically declare it's true here more than any other place.

The vastness and beauty of the natural world here.

The fact that Americans really are capable of great generosity.

The diversity of culture, religion, and geography.

Our literature and music.

And this little volume in front of me, which has been a key to the freedoms and opportunities we enjoy: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.

And, not coincidentally, the fact that I got this little book from the Cato Institute's booth at the American Library Association annual conference, and their representative and I had a very friendly conversation about disagreeing on almost everything except civil liberties.

~Rich

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As someone who isn't American I think the best thing about America is that everyone has an opinion about everything. This means that no matter what the issue you can get meaningfull debate. Here in Thailand people only seem to have an opinion one something once it is knocking at their front door. If it's not an iminet problem here in Thailand people here don't care.