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Seeing how on this forum I have seen over 1 zillion threads about how much you hate this or that about the United States, I would like to know what you do like about it. I mean, sure, we have our bad things, but we are a great country none the less. Every country has good things. Germany has nice sausages and cool names(Heh heh, Hanz....), Russia has an interesting history, Pakistan is full of nice people and beautiful landscapes, South Africa has nice animals, etc.

All I'm asking is for a moment forget your political preference, and think as a person, not as a New Labor person, or a Christian Democrat, or whatever political party you are, but as a person, and tell us what do you like.

(Oh, and PLEASE, no flaming or trolling. I'm trying to make this a good, non-partisan thread, so don't ruin it. There's enough politics in our lives.)

Weapons like the garand, carbine, thompson, bar and m1919a4

I dunno, keeps the video game industry alive?

I holidayed in the US, wasn't too much different from home at face value.

Friendlier economic and business climate than the UK (friendlier as in less stringent regulation). I also like the ideals it was founded on - life, liberty, property and all that.

I love the Bill of Rights. Especially the oh-so-sexy 1st Amendment. Our government really was designed extremely well. Probably better than any other. If we just realised that and followed it a little closer, maybe we wouldn't suck so bad right now.

I dunno, keeps the video game industry alive?

I holidayed in the US, wasn't too much different from home at face value.

Where in the U.S. did you visit? We have baisically EVERY type of climate and EVERY type of landscape. Your country can't have Jungles, High Mountains, Plateus, Deserts, Badlands, Prairies, Pine Forests, Regular Forests, Steppes, Canyons, Coral Reefs, glaciers, AND Volcanoes.

It's impossible! If you visited one AREA, sure it's prolly the same-ish.

Well, besides being born here, I like the landscape, and some of the people. Our ability to hijack everyone else's food is also fun!

I dont really like anything about the US as a whole, not in the sense of other, better countries.

Which said, I enjoy San Francisco and the Bay Area immensely.

Coca-Cola, Jack in the Box, Cadillac and the general economic and political freedom that exists.

Where in the U.S. did you visit? We have baisically EVERY type of climate and EVERY type of landscape. Your country can't have Jungles, High Mountains, Plateus, Deserts, Badlands, Prairies, Pine Forests, Regular Forests, Steppes, Canyons, Coral Reefs, glaciers, AND Volcanoes.

It's impossible! If you visited one AREA, sure it's prolly the same-ish.

I ain't going to say anything about the landscape, since you didn't put it there :p

I mean, that would be like going "Yay!" over a cloud drifting by. Sure it's pretty, but it just... is.

The fact that the official language is English, which means that virtually any book I want to read gets translated into or written in a language I know.

Where in the U.S. did you visit? We have baisically EVERY type of climate and EVERY type of landscape. Your country can't have Jungles, High Mountains, Plateus, Deserts, Badlands, Prairies, Pine Forests, Regular Forests, Steppes, Canyons, Coral Reefs, glaciers, AND Volcanoes.

It's impossible! If you visited one AREA, sure it's prolly the same-ish.

Russia?

I like California.

The fact that the official language is English, which means that virtually any book I want to read gets translated into or written in a language I know.

? The United States has no offical language. Which is one of the reasons why we get so many government forms in English... and Spanish... and German... and French and ....

I like that I can say what I hate about the US without being put in a detention center.

Russia?

Russia doesnt have Coral Reefs or Jungles. Sorry.

I admire the "can-do" attitude of the US. The idea that nothing is impossible for anyone who is willing to work for it. Other countries have it to various degrees, but it really seems to be part of the American culture.

Most americans I have met have been fabulous people, very open and warm hearted. The ingrained sentimentality in the country is nice to witness, even if sometimes I find it goes overboard.

I like football - more so this year with the hockey situation, and even with that wimpy fair catch rule ;)

I like Hawaii. Who wouldn't.

In fact, there are a lot of things I like about the US.... the present Administration excepted.

? The United States has no offical language. Which is one of the reasons why we get so many government forms in English... and Spanish... and German... and French and ....

I sit corrected.
I did understand though that your laws were enacted in English. Surely there has to be an "official" language for administration and justice. This does not mean that everyone in the country has to speak it though.

Here in Brazil, the "official" language is Portuguese, but you will find Tupi, German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, French , Korean etc. all being spoken.

I like the heat, warm seas and beaches.

movies like full metal jacket, fight club etc

there are several excellent european movies tho atm

Freedom Fries!!!!

I sit corrected.
I did understand though that your laws were enacted in English. Surely there has to be an "official" language for administration and justice. This does not mean that everyone in the country has to speak it though.

Here in Brazil, the "official" language is Portuguese, but you will find Tupi, German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, French , Korean etc. all being spoken.

Nope, there is no official language at all. We could I suppose enact a law in Klingon if we wanted to.

Nope, there is no official language at all. We could I suppose enact a law in Klingon if we wanted to.
Actually, it varies by state. In California English is the official language.

Russia doesnt have Coral Reefs or Jungles. Sorry.

The USSR had jungles and I'm fairly sure modern Russia does as well. I'm also fairly sure the USSR had Coral Reefs though the current country of Russia doesn't.

Actually, it varies by state. In California English is the official language.

Which means there is no Official language of the United States and the US Congress could probably draft a law in Tolkein's Elvish if they wanted to.

The USSR had jungles and I'm fairly sure modern Russia does as well. I'm also fairly sure the USSR had Coral Reefs though the current country of Russia doesn't.

Where would the U.S.S.R. have jungles and Coral Reefs? The former, at least, only grows in Tropical Areas. Russia is nowhere near the tropics. They coud have temperate rainforests, but not jungle.

Which means there is no Official language of the United States and the US Congress could probably draft a law in Tolkein's Elvish if they wanted to.

Now that would be cool.

As for what I like about the US, it does appear to have very low rates of paraphilias. I have always heard that pædophilia is endemic in Japan and 25% of English are sadomasochistic (concensual, but SM nonetheless).

Submerine sandwichs!
Hamburgers!
PIZZA!
Oh, and the 2nd Amendment!
The fact that I could grow up to be a clown on the streets if I wanted to and I wouldn't be oppressed!
Seriously, there are so many things great about the US, and I can't say them all because I live here, and I know nothing else.

I ain't going to say anything about the landscape, since you didn't put it there :p

I mean, that would be like going "Yay!" over a cloud drifting by. Sure it's pretty, but it just... is.

then you REALLY didnt go to the right places in the US. there are places so extremely beautiful that they are traffic hazards. you cant help but gawk at the splendor as you drive through. all you can do is stare and point and say "look at that look at that"

we didnt put it here, but we stole it fair and square. that has to count for something.

I sit corrected.
I did understand though that your laws were enacted in English. Surely there has to be an "official" language for administration and justice. This does not mean that everyone in the country has to speak it though.

Here in Brazil, the "official" language is Portuguese, but you will find Tupi, German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, French , Korean etc. all being spoken.

No, there is no legal official language in the US. Very unfortunate IMHO. What do I like about the US? Everything, but most important is our freedom to say, do, and become what we want.

Freedom Fries!!!!

Onion rings and pizza.

Considering that I live here, it is sorta unfair to opine, but I will. I love the fact that I live here. It is a country that gives me infinite oppritunities, and that allows me to live in peace. And I especially love that we have built a prosperous yet carefree and complacent society for us all, where 85% of Americans define themselves as being happy.

24 hour wal-marts and drug stores

Where would the U.S.S.R. have jungles and Coral Reefs? The former, at least, only grows in Tropical Areas. Russia is nowhere near the tropics. They coud have temperate rainforests, but not jungle.

When I did some searches for Russian Coral reefs I picked up some stuff for cold water Baltic sea coral reefs. And I picked up stuff about Subtropical Jungles over in the Far East of Russia along the Sea of Japan. Specificaly in the Kedrovya-Pad protected region. I may be wrong but eh.

The Coral Reefs are more of a technicality than anything else seeing as they are deep water (200 to 1000 meters deep) and you don't give swimming around in them like you do in tropical coral reefs. Then again if you were going to go dive in them you'd be swimming around in something far more fantastic seeing as the tallest of these cold water reefs are 35 meters tall.

When I did some searches for Russian Coral reefs I picked up some stuff for cold water Baltic sea coral reefs. And I picked up stuff about Subtropical Jungles over in the Far East of Russia along the Sea of Japan. Specificaly in the Kedrovya-Pad protected region. I may be wrong but eh.

The Coral Reefs are more of a technicality than anything else seeing as they are deep water (200 to 1000 meters deep) and you don't give swimming around in them like you do in tropical coral reefs. Then again if you were going to go dive in them you'd be swimming around in something far more fantastic seeing as the tallest of these cold water reefs are 35 meters tall.

This looks like a job for...

WIKIPEDIA!

*reads*

Well, that failed.

Where in the U.S. did you visit? We have baisically EVERY type of climate and EVERY type of landscape. Your country can't have Jungles, High Mountains, Plateus, Deserts, Badlands, Prairies, Pine Forests, Regular Forests, Steppes, Canyons, Coral Reefs, glaciers, AND Volcanoes.

It's impossible! If you visited one AREA, sure it's prolly the same-ish.
Ha HA HA!
New Zealand has that stuff and we are the size of Georgia so forget America :D