Most countries educate their populations in regards to other countries. You don't need to travel or live abroad to see what goes on outside your own country. 🤦
very true in Canada we learn a vast amount regarding the US to the point that we know more American history than most Americans and how America operates than they do.
That’s why I want to travel, Louisiana is fun but there is the entire world to see and I’m stuck here when there are gorgeous countries like Sweden and japan France and Italy, but I’m stuck here until I’m 18.
Yeah but your "education" on other countries is really just education on other European countries which are usually the size of a state in the U.S. and I doubt most Europeans can discuss the history/culture/geographical location of Oregon. The rest of the world are just haters because the U.S. became the centre of everything (military dominance, economic dominance with the dollar standard, cultural dominance with things like Hollywood, McDonalds, Facebook, Apple, the internet/human flight/landing on the moon/etc...).
5:05 I am a german foreign exchange student in the US right now and this is exactly what I have experienced the last 6 months of my stay. That some people are just too ignorant to realize that there is a world outside of the US...
ShlashTV you could basically say the exact same thing about people from nearly any country in existence. I seriously don’t get the hate hard on everyone has for Americans. We are constantly generalized as ignorant and small minded and it’s so annoying. Every time I see someone speak on America who doesn’t live here and hasn’t actually experienced the country for themselves they are so misinformed about us it’s really frustrating. Like i said you could direct these statements toward any country and it would be true. Not saying you’re hating on us but I just see the same criticism levied at us over and over.
@@jeremyroberts8822you're seriously going to compare the amount of ignorant people from other countries to the number here in the United states? This is literally one of the most ignorant countries in history, I'm not saying it's the most ignorant (although it could be idk) but you got to face facts and see the truth for what it is sooner or later, and also you should do some research before commenting
5:59 she, as an american, says "it's a great country to us, because we know what it is like here"... maybe a russian would says the same thing about russia, or a north korean about north korea...
They are only taught about the USA in their schools. Most of them have never traveled outside of their own country so have NO idea what the rest of the world is like. Ignorant to the maximum.
@Jesse Gutierrez i live in a 3rd world country. But i'd rather live here than in the US. I cringe every time I hear "US is the greatest" because that is not what the world is seeing. Most of us now are looking at adults who cry for not having a haircut or being forced to wear a mask. You're like kids.
You are saying RUSSIA and NORTH KOREA. Most Russians don't view Russia as the best country in the world that's just a meme and North-Korea is a violent communist dictatorship.
When I am 5 years old in Malaysia , I thought America is the best country in the world,and i started to love America, now 16 yrold i know america is racist, murder, weirdos
“If you want something here, you can get it” 😂 that’s the funniest statement I’ve ever heard! You can get anything you want in any other western country without being 100,000$ in debt. I live in Belgium and no student has any kind of debt because our country actually invest in education so everyone has the opportunity to get a diploma. Oh and the most I have ever had to pay for a hospital visit was €40
Says the country who barley invests in its own military, and spends less than .95% of its GDP in NATO falling short of the 2% minimum requirement. I think that’s hilarious considering you were basically bum rushed twice in both world wars and needed literally everybody else (including America) to save your country. Yeah it’s easy to invest a lot of money into subsidized health care and school with a MUCH smaller and less diverse population when you ignore your own defense and let other counties do it for you. Something that the US has to pay not only for itself, but for you and a bunch of other countries in NATO to.
@Jesse Gutierrez Here in Europe we are more than happy to pay more taxes for those reasons because those are investments in the future of our country (yeah, patriotism is more than just empty slogans here) and in the future of our children. The next generations will have a much better life if the society around them is safe, healthy, secure and well educated. The more educated the people are, the better it is for the economy. I would never want to live in a country where a talented and hard working kid is barred from education (unless he's a super athlete, or he joins the military or puts himself in debt for the next 4 decades) simply because his parents were poor or irresponsible. My own parents were irresponsible people and had I lived during those years in the US I would have no chance of getting a higher education without getting myself in hudreds of thousands of dollars of debt. And yes, I'm also happy to pay more taxes to provide health care for everyone around me, because that's better for me too and because words like "community" or "nation" actually mean something for us. And in case you've been taught that bullshit: no, our countries are not full of freeloaders expecting handouts from the state. We may not brag so much about it as Americans do, but we work just as hard as you do.
@@ferencercseyravasz7301 The irony here is that you don't understand what you're talking about. The government has no incentive to bring down costs, be efficient or create better goods or services. Businesses do, and that's why a free market Healthcare is far superior, free market education is far superior too. We get robbed daily with taxes and people just accept it, not because we care, because we're ignorant to how things actually work when the government gets out of our lives.
@Jaime Alonzo interest rates are so low, if you choose a good profession and live a conservative life for 5-10 years after college, you'll pay the loan off quickly.
I don't think "opportunity" is a solely "American" thing. Last time I checked you could basically become anything you want in like 97% of the Western world.
It was pretty good at its founding when Europe was still pretty class based. But it's no longer the best at this. Countries like Norway, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Australia all rank higher in social mobility, where if you are born poor you can actually change that. If you see born in the bottom 20% in the USA you are far more likely to stay there than in other Western societies.
@@eldricstuart411 that's cause the US endorses a fairly sheltered worldview. That's why Americans are usually the only ones who insist on being considered the best country on the planet based on their personal perception and not any substantial evidence.
@@drejaquez 'The west' means any nation built on western principles of capitalism, democracy, free trade, social democracy- eg anything pretaining to principles of European origin- particularly in terms of enlightenment thinking, and built upon the early principles of Greco-roman tradition.. It is called 'the west' not because of landmass situated on the west plane of a world map, but because it is juxtaposed to the other worldview that manifested in the East. Eg Communism, Dictatorship, Eastern religions, etc etc. these qualities are not absolute to either side, but that is the general split in opposites between the two sides. West vs East. This divide became a popular expression at the end of WW2 and the start of the cold war- but remember, Australia is a 'western' nation but on standard maps it is as far east as it goes, and vice versa Cuba would be considered 'eastern' in many ways. So no, it isn't the continents of the Americas that determine western values.
@@bluepearl_22 Huh? I've traveled and lived abroad for almost a decade and I still think no other country touches America. I was an immigrant to America too, btw, so I'm not speaking from a sheltered bias.
@@markallengarcia6695 Genuinely curious, how so? I've been to 3 continents and can say the U.S. is a mixed bag. Great return policies and business culture (not being closed on Sundays, good service, etc), piss poor transportation system and social safety net. Like, appaling. I got identical care for.. (you can't divide by 0) infinitely less money in Eastern Europe when I got injured. People don't go out nearly as much, although their homes are larger and look nicer (the walls are paper thin though). Sorry for the text block, but how do you think that "no other country touches America"? I see the U.S. as severely behind in many respects.
always makes me laugh when I hear all the same old propaganda about the "land of opportunity" or "anyone can succeed in America" etc etc. That's no different to the majority of countries !!!!
Or when someone goes and says to me, an American “it’s a america! We can do anything and become anything!” Or, “we are the best country, respect it or government might kick your ass” those other oblivious people can eat a rock!
Lol well it makes it fair because many believe we are one big refugee camp nowadays. Lived in America for a few years when I studied and then moved back to France, I loved America and even though France has issues I have no intention to ever move back to America because I'm not suited to the fast life that I had in the US.
@@sven7639 We literally are swimming in money with American Citizens being the richest out any other citizens living around the world , 300,000,000 plussss people more than 2x of Russias population. The nicest streets and clean cities even though there are ghettos here too its overall a nice place. And our military has more money than the top 16 militarys combined. We litterally shit money.
G.Carlin top comedian for me.. "oooh wait i got a little cramp on my leg and my balls hurt plus im blind, ooh im okay again. must have been Joe Pesci" Dave C. Katt Williams JoKoy Russell Peters Kevin Hart- just for his storytelling Gabriel Iglesias Bill Burr
And 1/3 of the US population is on the cusp of the poverty line… Clearly just a couple of trust fund babies who don’t work and play video games and make internet videos all day.
I hope you know that opportunity is significantly bigger in Scandinavia than the US. You will find the highest level of class travel there. Its rather fascinating that the US are so uneducated about the world.
Actual facts. America only wants to learn about America. When I was in America for a vacation in Cali and my friend said he would give me $5 if I could find someone who knew how many provinces Canada has. We were at a high school and I never got the $5.
CrazyBMWdude Why should I give a shit about Canada? We’re better and more worth thinking about. Maybe if you lived in the far north you would care about Canada, but everywhere else doesn’t.
As an Aussie who lived in the US for a number of years, I can 100% see why American's think the way they do. They are all raised by simply not wondering or being interested in the rest of the world. Australians are taught about the world in school and travelling is a strong part of our culture. In the USA when I lived there, they didn't have world news at all on the night news bulletins. there was a major disaster in Australia while I lived in the USA and we didn't even hear about it until 5 days later. Someone I worked with there had never even left the state they were born in and she was in her 40s. She didn't understand why she would want to leave, since she lived in the best place on earth IHO.
Very true like when I went I was talking to an American freind saying how much I wanted party pies and they Strait up ask what's that? I know they don't sell em there but damn there so good!
Until they need help in a war or disaster relief, then they’re begging for help. It’s like children making fun of adults, when they need money or help they come crying back.
@@theminuteman7611 u lot literrally only get involved in wars to steal oil, and thats always from third-world countrys. I dont see the Uk, France, Germany and countless others constantly asking for 'help' from the US.
Mr Worldwide Lol most? There are only 7 countries that actually meet the minimum. There are 29 countries in NATO. The 3 countries that actually exceed the minimum is by far the U.S with 3.6% of our GDP, and the next highest is GREECE (one of the crappiest economies in in Europe btw) with 2.4%. The U.K and Estonia are tied with 2.1%. That’s pathetic how Greece is paying a higher percentage of their GDP than any other European country to NATO. Then when the U.S wants to leave NATO cause so many countries don’t pay their fair share they complain and say we’re abandoning them to Russia. Obviously we want to help out but the lack of appreciation and when it’s only the U.S and a couple of other counties taking NATO seriously, it gets ridiculous after a while.
Katherine Demers The thing is, it’s very hard to educate yourself on on other countries when the U.S government gives blindfolds to everyone (ignorant opinions)
@@aaronmariscal7983 What do you have youtube and the internet for? There is literally no medium in which it would be simpler to contact people from other countries and interrogate them about how they feel about their country and your country. There's chatrooms, there's websites, you could even make a youtube video adressing people from a specific country - I know this always works great with Germany. Put the word "german" anywhere in your title and about 60-80% of the people in the comments will be german, feels like. There has never been a time in which it would have been easier to educate yourself; if you only put in the effort.
@@aaronmariscal7983 education is easy, history is the key to knowledge. Places to visit,,,,,Petra in Jordan. The Great Wall,China. Stonehenge the UK. Just some of the amazing things you can experience in this short lifetime. Don't put down your homeland, just go see others or you will become ignorant.
You are right, Ashtyn. The country is great to most Americans because they haven't been to other countries and/or haven't lived anywhere else. That is why it is ok to say it is a great country...but not ok to say that therefore it is (by default) the greatest. I am German and we all remember what happened when we thought we were better than everybody else. It is a dangerous attitude
My brother is a professor at the university in Baltimore. He once told me that after a successful lecture he gave, some students approached him for some extra talk. One of them asked where is he from, and when he told him he is from Hungary, the student thought it's one of the US states.
And all of the college students in or from your country knows all common sense knowledge? There are stupid people or college students everywhere in every country, state, city, or town. That doesn't mean all people there are dumb. When you suggested that, you're definitely dumb.
Bentayga yea students, when they start paying for their healthcare and for their education trust me they would wanna go back... every country has freedom and freedom of speech ...
I've never lived in Somalia - and I dont need to live there for 5 years to know, it's NOT better than Denmark, the country I currently live in. So that statement is just bullshit. Try again 'murica.
Tyler Parsons I think u cannot accept the Truth. I can easily name all the atrocities US commit . If I say US deliberately kill children and women in all wars and could still get away scot free , do u believe it? Kofi Annan was so angry and helpless , but what can he do? What we are seeing in US society is just a facade : on the surface, they seems compassionate, free and loving , deep inside , it is a rotten society, full of moral degradation.
William Stewart Well have you visited the US? Or have you just dealt with a handful in your days? If you go to big cities, yes... you will find more idiots then anything. You need to go to the heart land. The small farm towns and areas the turn the American wheel. We aren’t diluted. In fact most of us seem quite cold to the chipper city folk. We’re more cold because we’re more grounded. City folk have everything given to them in exchange for money. Out by me, even if you had the most money, it wouldn’t get you very far. Closest Walmart or big box store is 4-5 hrs away. We depend on hunting and fishing and growing of crops to survive. Money can’t buy you those skills and traits. It’s not for everybody, but for those of us who love it, we keep the wheel turning. I can also admit that we are not the greatest country. We are in a downward spiral. The unemployed are carried by the employed. And oddly enough the families with unemployed parents usually live better then the employed family. Parents are working so much that kids aren’t raised right. And the ones that are unemployed collect free money and still done raise their kids right. The other day I was in Chicago for a meeting. I own a farm and was meeting to become the main supplier for a particular brand. I stopped at a shop at the store to buy a few things and I heard a conversation behind me. They were two woman and one was talking about how they need more money and the other said just get pregnant. I wanted to throw up. The more kids you have here the more money the gov gives you. Which is ultimately income tax dollars. I work 60+ hours a week on my land. When I get paid, 32% of the money I earned is handed to the federal government and the state I live in. That’s why moronic idiots get rich and famous in US. Those people get paid to distract you from what’s going on and doing something about it. I’ve been to the UK. It’s very nice but it was not laid back at all. I felt judgement and hate all around not even going to lie. But that might be because I’m foreign to the UK. I’ve been to the Netherlands and didn’t feel that way though.
The irony of how the argument 'It's the only country that we know, so of course it's great to us" was ripped apart moments later when the informed statistics came following the video restart. You don't have to travel to be informed.
Well I'd say that's also because you don't bother to learn any other countries ways. If you go on holliday to let's say the Netherlands. Do amerikans try to speak dutch in the super market?? No they stick to english even though that's not a first or second language there. When I was 10 I had been to italy, germany, england, france... And in every country I come I try to speak their language and ajust to their ways. No amerikan will ever do that. Becuase they are too proud and too ignorant. I sucked at it but I tried my best even at 10 years old. And the people there never ever ridiculed me even once, they tried their best to understand me and helo me out because they saw a struggled. In amerika people belittle you when you don't know something and it kills your spirit. It makes it so that you won't dare to take the chance to be wrong next time. And that's whats wrong with your country. You are stubborn, head strong, yoi ridicule people struggling to better themselves and to top it all off you are actually proud of being amerikan! Instead of shouting you're so great. Try listening for a change.
I wonder if the people in North Korea say the same? "This country is the only one we know, so of course It's great to us". And what did the slaves who was born to slavery say: "Oh, I don't know anything else so this must be great!". I'm sorry, you guys are good, I am sure about that, but you have to admit that the logic in that statement was a bit strange.
Hari sankar No it’s not no. All be it is a true statement, for like about half of Americans who haven’t traveled to other countries. It’s great to us because we’ve seen what has happened in other countries, Vietnam, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Germany. We’ve only seen the terribleness in other countries and not the good parts, because some of the 207 sovereign countries, not that much have a good governments or economy. Haiti has only ONE university in the entire country and has the most people killed by AIDS. China, where you are practically stalked on the internet by the government and are retained from your right to free speech. Pakistan, where they hold out hostages from other countries who were not even in war. Afghanistan, where LGBTQ+ are stoned and thrown off buildings and women are being killed for not wearing an article of clothing. And America, were we have 50,060,592 people we have killed, oh and I only counted 3 wars and 2 of them weren’t even that big, we also have people that believe if men sit with there legs apart because it’s more comfortable for them because it doesn’t squish there nuts than it’s sexist for women. We don’t think we are the best because we live here. We think we are the best because of what we have seen.
No such thing as a greatest country in the world, they're all different. Countries have strengths and weaknesses. Some countries are the greatest in the world in certain aspects like the Military, or Economically or Socially, but they also have areas for improvement, the USA is no different, thinking your country is the greatest/ doesn't need improvement is a fatal mistake.
Thinking ones country is the greatest and thinking it doesn't need improvement are two entirely different things. The US has pushed free markets more than any other country, free markets cut global poverty by 50% in a 20 year span (arguably the best thing to happen to humanity). The US has the most freedoms and is the only country with absolute free speech. It is objectively the greatest, that is why everyone comes here. That isn't saying it doesn't have a plethora of faults.
@@bararobberbaron859 Norman Borlaug is the best human that ever lived? A very dubious claim. I would very much like to see this "objective research" about "which country does the most good for the world". How exactly do they make such a claim? As for freedom of the press, what exactly are they prevented from saying? They can't publish military secrets but beyond that, what are they prevented from publishing?
@@bararobberbaron859 So your an altruist? What makes a person good is what they have done for other people? What makes you good is determined the number of people you save? I'm not implying it was a bad thing he did, but your standards of good/bad are suspect. As for someone better, I would say Aristotle (or even Tom Aquinas. I would throw in Ayn Rand, but it is unlikely she ever influenced Borlaug). Borlaug used reason, the scientific method, an objective understanding of the world. Every person who accomplishes anything does that. Every person who has those things, got them from Aristotle. Man doesn't just know how to "do research". Borlaug helped poor people get food. That's a positive thing. But every person who ever improved any aspect of life (including the people who enabled Borlaug to do his research, previous research, wealth to have time to research), was enabled to do so by Aristotle. Aristotle wasn't an altruist, so by your standard, you are right he doesn't make the cut. You should rethink altruism. Ask yourself why that is that standard of the good.
@@bararobberbaron859 You should also be grateful to the inventor. If they didn't invent the tools, there is no repairman. In some sense, Aristotle plays a role in the invention of everything. As for him standing on the shoulders of giants, I'm not entirely sure I agree. If I don't know how to cook an egg, and somebody tells me that throwing it in the air is the answer, that doesn't help me figure out how to cook it. Everyone for Aristotle had illogical ideas. Sometimes illogical ideas are worse than no ideas. You just kind of pushed the reasoning back one step. I said "why is altruism the standard of the good" and you said "well it is isn't but you can make a mark on the world using it". Why is making a mark on the world the standard of the good? I only make a point of it because altruism is irrational. No one has ever been able to justify why one should sacrifice their values for another person.
@@bararobberbaron859 "And it's your opinion that altruism is irrational, let's not claim opinions as facts here." Not an opinion. If something is rational, you can justify it with argumentation. No one has ever given a proper justification of altruism. Also, if you feel good about doing something for others, that isn't altruism. Altruism isn't "doing stuff for others". Altruism is that the standard of morality is other people. Egoists can do stuff for others. Other people are not the standard for egoists.
I'm from South Africa and America actually scares me. I'm scared that if I was to visit that I would say the wrong thing and get shot. This clip is from The Newsroom. I actually liked this show. It was well liked and highly rated. I don't understand why it only lasted 3 seasons. I'm very good friends with my neighbours. I've had them over for Christmas lunch, Easter, BBQ's and I've been to their places for the same and the odd weekend we would have wine or beers in the street and watch the kids play in the street.
"If you wanna be a doctor you go to the school and you study and then you can become a doctor, it's really the land of opportunity" I can't think of a single country where that wouldn't be the case...
@Kiss Kitty that's not true. I'm a Muslim in a third world country and I have three elder sister. 1 of them is a gynecologist. 2nd is a first class government employee and 3rd is a computer engineer....
@@origenesii6558 You mean a country where it isn't that easy to go to medicine school? Like a country that would have you pay so much for that school that you would be crippled by debt by the time you come out? Where can we find such a country, I wonder. My remark was more about the fact that, in every country, if you manage to go and finish medical school, then you are a doctor. If you wanna argue about how hard it is to get into such a school, the USA isn't one to talk. At all.
@@Shinshokuful Nobody doubts that you´re a doctor if you finish medical school, but that wasn´t what you said. You said there is no country where not everybody could go to school and study if he/she wants to become a doctor. There are many countries where a large number of children have no chance to go to school or to study even if they want to. I don´t know where you live, but the world isn´t everywhere the same.
@Kiss Kitty you are obviously dont know islam/muslim. There are literally millions of islam/muslim women that has career. Some becomes housewife out of own need.sure minority are abused but i believe other religion also have some of this minority
"The world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy"? I can think of a few arguments against the first statement including but not limited to: Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Gentilesci, Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Shakespeare, Marlow, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dickens, Tolstoy, Conan Doyle, Byron, Shelley (both Percey and Mary), Eliot, Mozart, Beetoven, Handel, Stravinsky, Lennon and McCartney. Though, to be fair, I am Scottish and educated.
He was referring to at the time, not of all-time, hence the "not anymore attitude." America didn't exist while the majority of those people were alive. After America was established, there were few who could compete with the likes of Twain, Warhol, Elvis, Sinatra, Edison, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, all the athletes, musicians, and actors that come from America, etc. I'm sorry that you're butthurt, but pretending that America didn't dominate world culture just because the Beatles existed and some writers and poets existed hundreds of years ago is ignorant. There's a reason everyone in the world owns an iPhone and speaks English and it's not because blood sausage and crumpets are so appetizing.
@@Counterchalk ps the world speaks English because the British empire dominated a 1/3 of the world and implemented the nations to learn the language. Thats why gaelic is just about a dead language.
3/4 of those you mentioned were dead before America was a country.......i could spit out a long list of names too. Proves nothing. Just means you googled a list of great artists, nothing more.
@@Counterchalk This is also a sign of lack of knowledge from other parts of the world outside of America... Salvator Dali Federico Fellini Pierpaolo Pasolini Andrej Tarkovskij (from the ex Soviet Union btw) David Bowie Basically every recent philosopher The Clash Italo Calvino Luis Sepulveda And many more..just because it didn't reach your part of the world doesn't mean it didn't influence the rest of us
This country has never been great. Ask any person of color. It has done amazing things. Inventions - music - advances in science, of whom whose contributions are immeasurable and have changed their field. We are a long way from greatness.
East Asians and Indians have a higher average income than whites. Black Americans are the richest black community on Earth. Blacks from traditional two-parent families have outcomes nearly identical to whites.
It's quite an emotional thing to watch, a proud nation, with so much potential, and yet it's imploding, collapsing under the weight of its debt, crime and millitary
"It's the people who really ruin it" wait what? "You can become a doctor, go to school for it, get into politics, etc". Literally nothing you said is an American only thing and it's actually harder to do those here than in many other countries. Bro it's 2019. We aren't so different or better than any other democratic country. In most rankings we are actually more upper middle class in terms of wealth, happiness, "opportunity", and every stem curriculum. You talk like someone from a middle class suburb and has no idea how unfair the country is because you live in the better half. Just saying.
damn it, I love the Newsroom, first season was amazing and I have watched it so many times, by now I know it by heart. The show was the reason I started to learn about US politics, because I was pretty much sure that politicians are not that way in reality. Well imagine my surprise. I thought those were made up stories. Anyway I don't know why Sorkin changed the formula after the 1st season and made it boring in some way.
Of course the topic of this reaction is the most iconic, but you are right, the show is full of great awesome scenes. For instance, "Why Maggie cut her hair" always gives me chills
It's not "lazy" people - its entitled people who put their own personal interests above their inherent responsibility to their fellow citizens and to the society they live in.
Also being in the mid 40's for life expectancy while having per capita healthcare spending around double the next highest spending country on earth is not an achievement. Hell go to most any other country in the western world and America is the example that is quickly brought up even by those that lean right to laugh anyone that suggests that private healthcare would be more efficient off the stage as an obvious raving lunatic. Efficiency is most definitely not spending twice as much money per person and getting worse results, being efficient by any sane definition would mean getting better results per dollar spent per person.
my dad was in the navy in the 70s dealing with dictators from the middle east, they also had a huge recession in the 80s. Also they had huge issues with police and they were called the gang in blue. My dad is white and his step dad is black and him mom married his step dad in the 1960's. We are dealing with the exact same problems then we do now, the reason why it will never be fixed is because each decade of children believe this is a new problem they know how to fix just like your comment about it being relevant and its from 2011 when i saw alot of these same issues in the 90s and my dad saw them in the 70s.
If it wasn't for American defence spending and intelligence the majority of countries below it in defence spending would be worse off. Very few members of NATO spend the required 2% or above of GDP on their military. Canada, America's closest neighbour didn't spend the required 2% of GDP, and in 2018 actually reduced spending further, because the Canadians know they can rely on their southern neighbour to defend them. How much are they saving to spend on policies American's are paying for by virtue of having a strong military? Germany too reduced spending, and Germany is the strongest economy in Europe, what initiatives can they spend their money on instead of military, knowing as they do as a member of NATO that America's military will be there for them? So American's are paying for Germany's defence too, at the cost of potentially society changing programs. Spain doesn't meet the 2% GDP requirement for NATO membership, France doesn't, Luxembourg doesn't Belgium doesn't, Italy doesn't... … only Britain, Estonia, Greece, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania were estimated to have met the 2% goal last year, and the latter five have fairly unimpressive GDP's, making the 2% and their overall militaries rather, uh, weaksauce. America makes up nearly 70% of NATO's overall spending. Which makes America the de facto guardian of all those "free countries", and it makes Americans the people paying to ensure the safety of those countries... … while countries like Germany, a giant economy, can spend the money it saves on its military on other things, like social programs, education, workforce initiatives... be assured, if it was tasked with maintaining a military worthy of the name, it could not afford those things so easily. So it _should_ be thanking the United States of America every damn day, as should the majority of Europe, but instead America is more often than not derided in European press and media, and that is drilled into the populations, making comments like half of those seen in this comments section kinda hilarious. Just snooty ill-informed Europeans calling Americans ignorant, and insulated. I'm British, and even I know America is head and shoulders above the rest of the West, because the majority of the West leans on America to attain any kind of greatness. My country's defence and intelligence is in large part provided by the United States. And as far as I'm aware, with its codified constitution and bill of rights, America really is the only country in the West with _guaranteed_ freedoms. Pretty great if you ask me. Free speech in Britain is under attack, and there is no first amendment people can point to, to defend it. Instead our constitution is based in legislation, and we now have laws akin to blasphemy laws, making criticism of ideologies a no-no, and hate speech laws that silence criticism of really rather horrible, foreign cultural norms, such as female genital mutilation, and forced and arranged marriages, and polygamy etc.
Technically it is real lmfao america isnt the greatest country yes its the biggest yes it has the best army but still yall mfkers gotta pay to go learn and still dont learn that much 🤔 was steve jobs american? No he was from uk uk has much more freedom cuz we dont have to pay to go to hospital and dont need to pay to go to college cuz america just wants to take ur money.. hint Obama care was meant to be cheaper but it wasnt lmao
My great grandmother got mugged in Ireland. They saw her passport was Canadian they returned it. I went to the Netherlands a few years ago. Forgot I had a Canadian flag on my backpack and I got free drinks. The USA invades, Canada liberates.
Imo, the best tool to see which countries are the best is the human development index. It factors in a lot of stuff. I think the top 4 atm are 1. Norway 2. Switzerland 3. Ireland 4. Germany. The US is somewhere around 15 I think.
Come experience the UK, freedom of speech without being slaughtered for it, tolerant unarmed (in most cases) police force who in the whole work with us and for us, it is illegal to own a firearm of any kind without a strict permit procedure and we can walk our streets at night. 6th highest economy in the World and No1 by area, high GDP and good standard of living, best of all, NHS....our beloved health service....sorry guys but I find that one hard to beat...
A pack of cigarettes is almost 10 pounds, your gastronomy is basically non-existent (your national dish is chicken tikka masala which is indian for f*ck sake), the value of the pound has fallen almost 30% over the last 5 years and your goverment was one of the most irresponsible (let's please not bring up the USA) regarding coronavirus' measures when the outbreak first started. How are you the greatest country in the world?
@@Ten2378 At least get it right. So cigarets our biggest problem. Glad I don't smoke then, UK national dish is Sunday roast and/or fish and chips. I certainly know its not the best and will argue with you or the original comment but at least we aren't as bad as any EU countries.
Uk is not the best in the world but it’s still a whole lot better than America and yes the pound has dropped but if you compare it to the US Dollar well let’s just say it would be unfair, atleast they have a truthful education system not telling lies about the Cold War, Columbus among other things and trump is a whole lot worse than Boris
I love how everyone is fighting with each other politically while some countries like Switzerland and even Luxembourg just get on with their own lives. Heck, Antarctica probably has something to say about all this.
Luxembourg was liberated from Germany by the United states and Great Britain. Switzerland never fired a single shot at Nazi Germany while the rest of Europe burned
@@kevinhasch3097 ...Luxembourg was liberated by Allied forces in September 1944. Allied tanks entered the capital city on 10 September 1944, where the Germans retreated without fighting.mainly the U.S 5th armoured division.
One of the best shows that was on TV. Aaron Sorkin is a great writer and Jeff Daniels and Sam Waterston led a brilliant cast. I miss that show. We need it back more than ever. The political landscape is rife with important material.
Every Country had its pros and cons. I don't think any singular nation could claim to be 'The Greatest'. The U.S is the most powerful, but that's not the same thing. I'd have to say it has more positives than negatives though. (Greetings from the U.K !)
You don't. You can register as "Non Partisan" which is no party affiliation. You cannot however vote in partisan preliminaries but you can vote in local city/county elections and in national elections.
@@tigioma3761 the fact that you are asked this question at all when registering to vote is a violation of most human rights to have a free and fair election. It also embeds a two party system.
This scene pulled me into the show (The Newsroom). This was actually form the first episode. I was hooked. This is an amazing series! I recommend watching it!
I am a Brit and I am coming over to the states next year to coach soccer. I love America and am very grateful to be given an opportunity to experience your culture and way of life.
I live in the US and travel quite a bit. There are many awesome countries out there. The Netherlands. UK. Italy. But I don’t live in any of them so it’s hard to say. I can say I visited 3 countries in Africa, and while it was an amazing experience, I can tell I wouldn’t want to live there full time. At the end of the day humans in the US and humans in every other country generally want the same thing. Leave it to humans though to make everything so difficult.
Pete Frenna people also migrate to italy france and the uk canda for example just because you only see people wanting to come to the us cause you live in the us doesn't mean people don't also want to go to other places for a better life.
@@kevinzk71 Do you not follow the news pal of all the Muslims in the ocean being rescued by boats in an effort to flee from their country to Europe illegally risking drowning just a couple months ago look up all the illegal immigration to European countries just cause you don't live there and aren't as informed as the people who live there doesn't mean it doesn't happen and its naive and stupid to think America is the only country with illegal immigrants.
I live in Ireland, but i lived in Australia for four years, and i have to say, i think it’s the best country in the world. It’s by far one of the safest, the education system is miles ahead of the US, the natural world within it easily the most beautiful i’ve ever seen, the country is so welcoming to diversity and multiculturalism, and the government actually gives a shit about the people, and there are so many holidays! Not annual ones, but if you want to take a week off work you’re free to do it without worrying about financial problems. Not to mention medical bills practically don’t exist in public hospitals. If your kid gets cancer, or you break your arm, it’s all free to fix. And people are so nice! When i moved there i was expecting the stereotypical, crocodile dundee sort of people but it’s the opposite. The country is so advanced politically too, it’s totally unlike America, which is divided in several different ways. The whole place is united. I honestly can’t think of any negatives about Australia, and i really wish i could just move there and live there forever. It was by far the best four years if my life.
Give me dangerous animals, which generally leave you alone, over "the right to bear arms" any day. that, my friend, is far more dangerous. In Aus, auto or semi auto firearms are banned with MASSIVE penalties if you are caught with one. TO get licence for a single shot rifle or hand gun is very hard. Criminal records, Psyc evaluation and reason for wanting it come into the process. Our healthcare is FAR FAR FAR better. I know Obahma tried to do a version of ours, but missed the point...FREE HEALTH CARE. I had spinal surgery and a week in Hospital, including Meds. COST ME $0.00. BUT we do have a HUGE cost of living as the Government taxes the crap out of everything. Yeah I can get DAMN hot here but, we are used to it.
@@heliotropezzz333 "dangerous weather events" LOL what a stupid sentence, what, something you can buy tickets for LOL, weather is enough, dont understand the thing about adding useless and meaningless words, makes no sense
@@andreasedvinsson7410 I just meant instances of different types of dangerous weather and different dangers triggered by weather. Nothing to get your knickers in a twist about.
A lot of opportunities like becoming a doc? Seriously bruh? Like, tell a poor guy to go to college 🙄 so developed yet such a lack of solidarity 😅 can’t even go to hospitals without having to pay tens of thousands of dollars in a medium serious case. I prefer paying 15% each month and helping poor people at the same time. Win/win vs win/lose. Figure that out...
Yeah, the rest of the world can see it... one guy unfortunately died at the hands of police and the world saw a country fall apart... Pretty fragile society.
@@snowboxesful it was already building up for decades, the pandemic & social media amplified it sort of like a mass hysteria thats why there were protests all over the world.
@@tomesofawesome8041 , You AND Jon, are both wrong... ...this character (and one from dumb and dumber) is (are) played by Jeff Daniels... ...Joey on full house is played by Dave Coulier
To that women who says you cant judge by not living there. False. Its called education. In europe we get world history education not just our own country history. Thats maybe the main difference.
@Mark Coakley Which also explains part of their main problem right now ... they are removed from reality and critical thinking ... at some point the video clearly said a definite number of countries and the dude reacting to it was certain that a "fraction" was mentioned... Dude, it was one minute ago, how could you forget! Even Duffy Duck had a greater attention span :p
It has a meaning. No country is perfect. Some are better in other categorys. USA has the best army but it's not the happyest. Island, Norway and Finland are considered the happiest.
I don't see how knowing it's from a tv series is at all relevant here. And btw, attempting to point out that someone doesn't know something with the intend of rideculing them is shamefull. And it's killing any aspiration for people to learn and better themselves. Stop shuttig people down. You learn most from your mistakes and by ridiculing others you make it so that they'll never dare to take the chance to be wrong.
@@ethanalberts3326 I can't complain. I'm single and have a netincome of around 25000€ per year (after taxes) with a pretty normal skilled trade job and after paying rent, electricity, heating, insurances (car, household), groceries, phone, internet i still have around 800-1000€ left to play around with.. i have universal health care, 25 mandatory paid days of vacation by law+religious holidays and such, unlimited sickdays if i need them, my own car, i get one full paycheck extra twice a year (holiday and christmas) and overall a comfy life in a very pretty rural region near the city of vienna (austria)
@@coltino99 and the worlds biggest military .. by far.. just think of it.. the military budget of the usa is bigger than all the others in the world combined!! do you think that money just get created or something?
5:14 Thats called curiosity, broadening your horizons and simply been objective or impartial. As a Belgian, i know the great things and the shitty things of my country, but if you are informed enough and not scared to ask questions or to go to places no others would, that how you're able to draw the bigger picture and see it in its ensemble. The Greatness of a country starts by the Greatness of its people and their ability to try to reach for more, thats what was the American Dream back in the day, the idea that through Hard Work and perseverance, anyone could be anything. Thats what, was lost somewhere in between then and now, for a variety of reasons. When things goes to shit, its never because of ONE thing, its a series of thing, that when seeing like that as no importance or relation to each other, some of you might be familliar with the Chaos Theory by now. And thats why it takes time and efforts to fix it, its not a singular cause why its fucked, so it cannot depend on a singular solution.
I love the US as a holiday destination. And have been there several times and will continue to go back but I don't think I'd ever want to live there personally though. At least from the outside the country seems so consumed by social and political angst that is dividing the country. It feels like the same is happening in the UK a bit too. I feel like the only industry that would ever require re-locating to the US would be the entertainment industry. But even then London has a very strong entertainment industry in its own right so that's an alternative option. But simply for entrepreneurial endeavours countries like Canada, Australia, Germany, UK etc. are all extremely thriving business-centric locations with plenty of opportunities. And then countries like Japan have an extremely respectful culture with great work-ethic. Japan is also a tech giant. Every country has flaws but so many have freedom, opportunity, high-quality of life etc. It's all about preferences and which aspects of certain countries speak to you as a person and to your interests.
Denmark will officially declare war on you, if you move your entertainment industy anywhere! I would choose a British movie or Tv series over anything American, in a heartbeat. I would estimate, that 75 % of TV series on Danish television are British made. Midsummer, Downton, All Creatures, Holby, The Royal, my personal favorite Foyle´s War and so on - We absolutly love them! The Quartet, My Home in Hampstead, The Geurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Another Mothers Son, Darkest Hour, A Bridge Too Far - some of the best movies ever! Any actor worth watching, from 1935 till present time is/was British. So dont you dare! :)
I grew up in the 50's and 60's and I remember those times. You could leave your keys in your car, your bike in the front yard and not lock your door and no one would steal. There was a moral compass in the U.S. It was that compass that supported the civil rights movement, and the woman's movement. Now people search for things to be outraged about true or false and overreact with unthinking emotion and violence, like a nation of Pavlov's dogs. As Faith and morality dies so does this nation. Change it to get what some group wants, but they're not sure of what they want except power to impose their wishes on rest of their fellow citizens. One of the first coins minted in the U.S. said, "MIND YOUR BUSINESS." I like that saying and try not to stick my nose in other people's lives unless it affects me. The Government should abide by that, and they use to.
As Jim Jeffries said " out of all the free countries you have the most incarcerated people in the world, therefore of all the free countries you have the least amount of free people"
VIDEO: "I'm not letting you go to the airport without answering the question." MY BRAIN: "Well, that would be considered kidnapping, wouldn't it?" Seriously, though, that was a great speech.
You can't sue a social media company for taking your posts down because the posts break their guidelines. The first amendment protects you from being arrested for what you say. It doesn't protect you from companies taking down posts you make in their service. If you want to post your stuff without anyone being able to take you down, host your own stuff. Otherwise, if you are using someone's service, you have to adhere to their guidelines.
“You want something, you can get it here...” Unless of course it’s a COVID-19 Test.... That you can only get if you’re rich.... Or work directly with someone who’s rich....
The Newsroom is a great program. You’re bang on, there is nothing wrong with, and a lot right with, national pride. It’s just that no one can say their country is better than all others, especially when you don’t define the criteria for measuring. I’m proud to be Canadian but I wouldn’t claim to be the best. It also doesn’t blind me to what’s wrong in our country. Glad to watch you experience this. Where we are today is everyone’s fault and we all have to work together to get things back in the rails. First we have to learn to listen to others and talk openly with them, even when we disagree. Cheers!
so so, Hahahahah, because you guys don’t have any border issues? Our government has turned away refugees for the last 5 years. We had a problem Yes! We fixed it. How’s your wall going? Or is he getting impeached
I live in Norway, and see today that America is destroyed, but a hundred years ago many Norwegians traveled to the United States due to The Amercan dream. Today, many return home. Today's America is struggling with "Me too" Black lives matter ++++++. When Obama became president, Europe cheered with the black population of the United States. Then came Trump, and then we cried for the United States. And from what I understand, not many people are happy with the one you have now either. When you lost the unions, working life went to hell. When you went to the Korean War, when you went to Vietnam, there were many who thought America had grown big on its own. Since then, the United States has played World Police for most continents, most recently Iraq and Afghanistan. And how many Americans died in these wars? So wasted it has been. Does the average American think it was right to go into these wars ?
Because they don't know a show? There are only three things I know about the Simpsons: They are a cartoon; they are all yellow; and there is one called Homer, he's is not pronounced the same way as the Ancient Greek author Homér.
It's not "Joey" from Full House, it's Jeff Daniels or "Harry" from Dumb and Dumber. He also just happens to be one of the world's greatest character actors with a career spanning four decades.
His best role was proberbly as Colonel Joshua Chamberlain in "Gettysburg" from 1993. An amazing performance in a brilliant movie, with great co-stars, such as Martin Sheen, Sam Elliot, Morgan Sheppard, George Lazenby, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan and most perfectly casted of them all, Tom Beringer in the principal role. Jeff Daniels´ role as the man who turned the tide, of the civil war was simply splendid!
What upsets other people from Americans is not only their ignorance and misinformation about other countries, it’s the arrogance of Americans and looking down upon citizens from other countries. Its ok to be proud about your country and believe that it’s great. however, as I said, its the despise that others hate from Americans.
The best country in the world has a President that shuts the government down and doesn't pay its own people that doesn't sound like the best country in the world you guys love yourselves a bit much
I have never dreamed to live in America to be honest. Actually I wonder how people are living there not because anything else, but because of the shooting and killing that happen almost every day? I may dream to live there if they consider changing the gun laws.
You know there are more people killed by knifes and car accidents than there are people killed in shootings. I hate how people label America as a country that’s nothing but shootings and killings.
When he speaks about freedom you don't have to live for 5 yrs in another country to know they also have freedom and that it's not exclusive to America.
dont be. germany is a gem of the civilized world. o bad the Jews are taking Revenge on Germany till this day.They use the Usa Bitches to corrupt Germany
"You want something here, you can get it because we're such a rich country." Really? How about free health care? How about a financial future in which worry about having to declare bankruptcy because of medical expenses isn't even a thing that exists? How about the feelings of safety and peace that come from walking down a street crowded with strangers, knowing with near 100% certainly that nobody in that crowd is armed with a weapon that could kill you? Is America rich enough to buy that? And for God's sake, shake your head. What makes you think all those other free, capitalist countries don't also offer equal or much better opportunities for education, business success, etc. Oy Oy Oy. But good demonstration.
Well, from an non american perspective I'd say that the greatest thing about the US is their first amendment. Not sure if any other country has it as plainly stated that the state can't infringe on the people's right to say whatever they want (Remember the Count Dankula incident?). But besides that I don't think the US stands out as being all that much greater in anything that you should be proud of. Note: I'm not trying to put the US down or trying to lift another country up. I'm just giving my honest opinion as I see it.
If only the first amendment (or any of the first 3) was actually followed properly. Despite the fact that we have a document claiming that anyone has the right to say anything, doesn't mean people aren't still arrested for saying things. People are thrown in jail because of mere misunderstandings that were never even investigated. When it works, it's great, but when it doesn't, everything falls apart.
Mr Fafaa yeah except for the fact that you can still be arrested in the USA for saying something like "I want to blow up an airport" so you don't really have total freedom of speech anyway and in fact have about the same as all other developed countries which might not claim to have total freedom of speech but still have the right to criticise politics and voice their opinions so long as they don't incite violence or criminal activity so yeah
We can feel pride in our culture. Every country in the world either consumes our movies, TV, music, etc. Or they copy it. I feel pride in our beautiful country: deserts, forests, tundra, plains, mountains, swamps, rain forests, National Parks. The Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Everglades, etc. Our diversity of people: people from every culture and country on the planet immigrates here. Our holidays, like Thanksgiving and Halloween. Our sports, like football. Our cuisine, like New England Clam Chowder, Cajun food, etc. There is plenty of countries can be proud of and there is plenty Americans can be uniquely proud of!
But if you can not know ... stop saying that the United States is the world's best country. My country has the same good things as the United States... and less of the bad.
@@staraptorflock3661 It is a straw man... It's up to everyone to think what they want. But when you ask a person from the US: "What are you best at?" Then there are the same benefits in many other countries. The bad thing I'm talking about ... Murder, drugs, crime .... they are much worse in the United States.
There are a lot of countries that are great :) as an example i am from Austria and i really like my country but scandinavia and tbh a lot of Europe is great
As a norwegian, my brain hurts every time America calls itself the greatest country in the world. First of all, America is a continent, not a country. The US is just a part of North America along with Mexico (yep!) and Canada. And "The American Dream" is a good idea on paper, but it's really swim or sink. No safety net. We have free childcare, free schools, free healthcare and as every other european country, freedom. If you fail in life we have a safety net to make sure you don't end up in the streets, unless you choose to. And when the US talks about having the greatest economy in the world? Well, Norway is the only country in the western world without debt. The US has the largest debt in the western world. And one of the countries you owe the most money to, except for national debt? China...
@Jesse Gutierrez hold on let me know when did the US get free healthcare? I havent heard that happen and thats one of the BAREST MINIMUM aspects of a great country in my eyes
@Shane Bettes The United States are a number of States that have collectively formed a nation on the continent of North America therefore they are the United States OF America
@@XxBloodDrunkxX666 united states... united means all are one ( the same). yet every state still have their own set of rules. what you can do in texas, you cant do in california... so i think (states of) america is a better name for that country, cause you arent united
This comes up in many comment sections. The thing is: People in the United States of America (which is the official name) live mostly in a bubble and refere to their nation as America, while the rest of the world is used to the official names (USA the country ... north and south america as the two parts which together form the continent "America"). So all you are debating over is just a difference in who calls what by what name in their daily life. And that is just wasted time tbh.
Most countries educate their populations in regards to other countries. You don't need to travel or live abroad to see what goes on outside your own country. 🤦
Facts
very true in Canada we learn a vast amount regarding the US to the point that we know more American history than most Americans and how America operates than they do.
That’s why I want to travel, Louisiana is fun but there is the entire world to see and I’m stuck here when there are gorgeous countries like Sweden and japan France and Italy, but I’m stuck here until I’m 18.
Yeah but your "education" on other countries is really just education on other European countries which are usually the size of a state in the U.S. and I doubt most Europeans can discuss the history/culture/geographical location of Oregon. The rest of the world are just haters because the U.S. became the centre of everything (military dominance, economic dominance with the dollar standard, cultural dominance with things like Hollywood, McDonalds, Facebook, Apple, the internet/human flight/landing on the moon/etc...).
Uh huh doesnt mean they learn the right things
5:05 I am a german foreign exchange student in the US right now and this is exactly what I have experienced the last 6 months of my stay. That some people are just too ignorant to realize that there is a world outside of the US...
ShlashTV you could basically say the exact same thing about people from nearly any country in existence. I seriously don’t get the hate hard on everyone has for Americans. We are constantly generalized as ignorant and small minded and it’s so annoying. Every time I see someone speak on America who doesn’t live here and hasn’t actually experienced the country for themselves they are so misinformed about us it’s really frustrating. Like i said you could direct these statements toward any country and it would be true. Not saying you’re hating on us but I just see the same criticism levied at us over and over.
jeremy roberts What other countries have you traveled to and spent any quality time? Your statement is false.
@@jeremyroberts8822you're seriously going to compare the amount of ignorant people from other countries to the number here in the United states? This is literally one of the most ignorant countries in history, I'm not saying it's the most ignorant (although it could be idk) but you got to face facts and see the truth for what it is sooner or later, and also you should do some research before commenting
@Justin Centerswow, those three pointless paragraphs prove that you are really smart, how long did it take you to type that?
You're ignorant about American's I'll bet
5:59 she, as an american, says "it's a great country to us, because we know what it is like here"... maybe a russian would says the same thing about russia, or a north korean about north korea...
They are only taught about the USA in their schools. Most of them have never traveled outside of their own country so have NO idea what the rest of the world is like. Ignorant to the maximum.
@Jesse Gutierrez i live in a 3rd world country. But i'd rather live here than in the US. I cringe every time I hear "US is the greatest" because that is not what the world is seeing. Most of us now are looking at adults who cry for not having a haircut or being forced to wear a mask. You're like kids.
You are saying RUSSIA and NORTH KOREA. Most Russians don't view Russia as the best country in the world that's just a meme and North-Korea is a violent communist dictatorship.
When I am 5 years old in Malaysia , I thought America is the best country in the world,and i started to love America, now 16 yrold i know america is racist, murder, weirdos
I hate stupid peoples and toxic peoples I’m Dutch and everyone always told me America is a good country but if you really get into it it sucks.
“If you want something here, you can get it” 😂 that’s the funniest statement I’ve ever heard! You can get anything you want in any other western country without being 100,000$ in debt. I live in Belgium and no student has any kind of debt because our country actually invest in education so everyone has the opportunity to get a diploma. Oh and the most I have ever had to pay for a hospital visit was €40
Says the country who barley invests in its own military, and spends less than .95% of its GDP in NATO falling short of the 2% minimum requirement. I think that’s hilarious considering you were basically bum rushed twice in both world wars and needed literally everybody else (including America) to save your country. Yeah it’s easy to invest a lot of money into subsidized health care and school with a MUCH smaller and less diverse population when you ignore your own defense and let other counties do it for you. Something that the US has to pay not only for itself, but for you and a bunch of other countries in NATO to.
@Jesse Gutierrez Does it hurt, being so ignorant?
@Jesse Gutierrez Here in Europe we are more than happy to pay more taxes for those reasons because those are investments in the future of our country (yeah, patriotism is more than just empty slogans here) and in the future of our children. The next generations will have a much better life if the society around them is safe, healthy, secure and well educated. The more educated the people are, the better it is for the economy. I would never want to live in a country where a talented and hard working kid is barred from education (unless he's a super athlete, or he joins the military or puts himself in debt for the next 4 decades) simply because his parents were poor or irresponsible. My own parents were irresponsible people and had I lived during those years in the US I would have no chance of getting a higher education without getting myself in hudreds of thousands of dollars of debt. And yes, I'm also happy to pay more taxes to provide health care for everyone around me, because that's better for me too and because words like "community" or "nation" actually mean something for us. And in case you've been taught that bullshit: no, our countries are not full of freeloaders expecting handouts from the state. We may not brag so much about it as Americans do, but we work just as hard as you do.
@@ferencercseyravasz7301 Nice war.
comment from an Indian.
@@ferencercseyravasz7301 The irony here is that you don't understand what you're talking about. The government has no incentive to bring down costs, be efficient or create better goods or services. Businesses do, and that's why a free market Healthcare is far superior, free market education is far superior too. We get robbed daily with taxes and people just accept it, not because we care, because we're ignorant to how things actually work when the government gets out of our lives.
"if you want to become a doctor you can" yeah if you can afford education
in Europe I can be everything and even study for free
You can be anything you want, get a student loan and an education. Pay it off when you start working. No excuses
@Jaime Alonzo interest rates are so low, if you choose a good profession and live a conservative life for 5-10 years after college, you'll pay the loan off quickly.
@Jaime Alonzo A Doctor makes a little more money than the average person!
In the States. Quite special among the western industrial countries.
“It’s the greatest country in the world because that’s all we know.” Ignorance at its finest.
KC Shuffle 100%right
A huge percentage of Americans don't have a passport, enough said.
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Mark G The whole country is just a big echo chamber.
the follow up is even worse: "you have to actually be there to be there a few years before you can judge". READ A FUCKING HISTORY BOOK!
I don't think "opportunity" is a solely "American" thing. Last time I checked you could basically become anything you want in like 97% of the Western world.
It was pretty good at its founding when Europe was still pretty class based. But it's no longer the best at this. Countries like Norway, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Australia all rank higher in social mobility, where if you are born poor you can actually change that. If you see born in the bottom 20% in the USA you are far more likely to stay there than in other Western societies.
@@eldricstuart411 that's cause the US endorses a fairly sheltered worldview. That's why Americans are usually the only ones who insist on being considered the best country on the planet based on their personal perception and not any substantial evidence.
@@drejaquez 'The west' means any nation built on western principles of capitalism, democracy, free trade, social democracy- eg anything pretaining to principles of European origin- particularly in terms of enlightenment thinking, and built upon the early principles of Greco-roman tradition.. It is called 'the west' not because of landmass situated on the west plane of a world map, but because it is juxtaposed to the other worldview that manifested in the East. Eg Communism, Dictatorship, Eastern religions, etc etc. these qualities are not absolute to either side, but that is the general split in opposites between the two sides. West vs East. This divide became a popular expression at the end of WW2 and the start of the cold war- but remember, Australia is a 'western' nation but on standard maps it is as far east as it goes, and vice versa Cuba would be considered 'eastern' in many ways.
So no, it isn't the continents of the Americas that determine western values.
@@bluepearl_22 Huh? I've traveled and lived abroad for almost a decade and I still think no other country touches America. I was an immigrant to America too, btw, so I'm not speaking from a sheltered bias.
@@markallengarcia6695
Genuinely curious, how so?
I've been to 3 continents and can say the U.S. is a mixed bag. Great return policies and business culture (not being closed on Sundays, good service, etc), piss poor transportation system and social safety net.
Like, appaling. I got identical care for.. (you can't divide by 0) infinitely less money in Eastern Europe when I got injured.
People don't go out nearly as much, although their homes are larger and look nicer (the walls are paper thin though).
Sorry for the text block, but how do you think that "no other country touches America"? I see the U.S. as severely behind in many respects.
always makes me laugh when I hear all the same old propaganda about the "land of opportunity" or "anyone can succeed in America" etc etc. That's no different to the majority of countries !!!!
Or when someone goes and says to me, an American “it’s a america! We can do anything and become anything!” Or, “we are the best country, respect it or government might kick your ass” those other oblivious people can eat a rock!
Its quite different actually. The lack of free higher education in USA cripples social mobility compared to other western countries.
Land of opportunity, until you get cancer, then sell your house and use your life savings. FREEEEEDOOOOM! 😭😭😂😂😂
@@jacobfromallstate4963 They may take our lives, but they'll never take our FRRRREEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!
America is a continent, not a country
From Europe, the US looks like a Prison camp
Lol well it makes it fair because many believe we are one big refugee camp nowadays. Lived in America for a few years when I studied and then moved back to France, I loved America and even though France has issues I have no intention to ever move back to America because I'm not suited to the fast life that I had in the US.
a privately owned, state-funded prison camp!
How does it look like a prison camp? We are the richest country not the best.
@@Tikii_9 how do you define rich?
@@sven7639 We literally are swimming in money with American Citizens being the richest out any other citizens living around the world , 300,000,000 plussss people more than 2x of Russias population. The nicest streets and clean cities even though there are ghettos here too its overall a nice place. And our military has more money than the top 16 militarys combined. We litterally shit money.
As somebody once said "It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it".
It was George Carlin
eh not really
Trueee.
the correct term is "hypnotised" not sleep. LOL!
G.Carlin top comedian for me.. "oooh wait i got a little cramp on my leg and my balls hurt plus im blind, ooh im okay again. must have been Joe Pesci"
Dave C.
Katt Williams
JoKoy
Russell Peters
Kevin Hart- just for his storytelling
Gabriel Iglesias
Bill Burr
Well, you two just verified his very point. Ignorance runs rampant while information is readily available at our fingertips.
"If you want something here, you can get it because we are a rich country".
Er, decent healthcare for all?
haha, good one! healthcare and education, the two basics for a high living standard - but not in the US. That´s a tragedy.
Gotta empty ta pocket and account for a surgery
Not rich but we are the most deeply indebted with ,38 trillion and counting.
And 1/3 of the US population is on the cusp of the poverty line…
Clearly just a couple of trust fund babies who don’t work and play video games and make internet videos all day.
Also they get no paid holiday as i'm sure you know
I hope you know that opportunity is significantly bigger in Scandinavia than the US. You will find the highest level of class travel there. Its rather fascinating that the US are so uneducated about the world.
Actual facts. America only wants to learn about America. When I was in America for a vacation in Cali and my friend said he would give me $5 if I could find someone who knew how many provinces Canada has. We were at a high school and I never got the $5.
CrazyBMWdude Why should I give a shit about Canada? We’re better and more worth thinking about. Maybe if you lived in the far north you would care about Canada, but everywhere else doesn’t.
@@YOTSUBA_desu Wow ur pretty narrow minded...a great example of the 'ignorant' stereotype the rest of the world sees in America
@@YOTSUBA_desu proud nobrainer 🤦🏻♂️
@@mauno7230 agreed
As an Aussie who lived in the US for a number of years, I can 100% see why American's think the way they do. They are all raised by simply not wondering or being interested in the rest of the world. Australians are taught about the world in school and travelling is a strong part of our culture. In the USA when I lived there, they didn't have world news at all on the night news bulletins. there was a major disaster in Australia while I lived in the USA and we didn't even hear about it until 5 days later. Someone I worked with there had never even left the state they were born in and she was in her 40s. She didn't understand why she would want to leave, since she lived in the best place on earth IHO.
There are some people in the US who have never even left their home counties!
Very true like when I went I was talking to an American freind saying how much I wanted party pies and they Strait up ask what's that? I know they don't sell em there but damn there so good!
"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States
The Americans don’t even know that a lot of countries in the world are laughing at them 😂
Until they need help in a war or disaster relief, then they’re begging for help. It’s like children making fun of adults, when they need money or help they come crying back.
@@theminuteman7611 u lot literrally only get involved in wars to steal oil, and thats always from third-world countrys. I dont see the Uk, France, Germany and countless others constantly asking for 'help' from the US.
Mr Worldwide Lol NATO is basically every country in Europe asking the US to pay for their defense against Russia so there’s your help hahaha.
@@theminuteman7611 Its just not though, most european countries pay their quota's same as the US.
Mr Worldwide Lol most? There are only 7 countries that actually meet the minimum. There are 29 countries in NATO. The 3 countries that actually exceed the minimum is by far the U.S with 3.6% of our GDP, and the next highest is GREECE (one of the crappiest economies in in Europe btw) with 2.4%. The U.K and Estonia are tied with 2.1%. That’s pathetic how Greece is paying a higher percentage of their GDP than any other European country to NATO. Then when the U.S wants to leave NATO cause so many countries don’t pay their fair share they complain and say we’re abandoning them to Russia. Obviously we want to help out but the lack of appreciation and when it’s only the U.S and a couple of other counties taking NATO seriously, it gets ridiculous after a while.
2020 August, America these days looks like a 3rd world country with a Gucci belt on.
This is my Go-to line when mocking the US of A
it always has been - now its more obvious
America has all the problems common to third world countries, they just have the resources of a first world country.
This is the best thing I’ve seen all week
Elaborate I don’t really think this is true
no need to live in every country, you juste have to educate yourselves
Katherine Demers The thing is, it’s very hard to educate yourself on on other countries when the U.S government gives blindfolds to everyone (ignorant opinions)
@@aaronmariscal7983 What do you have youtube and the internet for? There is literally no medium in which it would be simpler to contact people from other countries and interrogate them about how they feel about their country and your country. There's chatrooms, there's websites, you could even make a youtube video adressing people from a specific country - I know this always works great with Germany. Put the word "german" anywhere in your title and about 60-80% of the people in the comments will be german, feels like.
There has never been a time in which it would have been easier to educate yourself; if you only put in the effort.
LordofSorrows You’ll never get a feel for a country until you visit it, everyone knows that.
@@aaronmariscal7983 education is easy, history is the key to knowledge. Places to visit,,,,,Petra in Jordan. The Great Wall,China. Stonehenge the UK. Just some of the amazing things you can experience in this short lifetime. Don't put down your homeland, just go see others or you will become ignorant.
@@aaronmariscal7983 I don't know if you've heard of this wonderful new invention called the internet
Oh the IRONY... Dumb and Dumber. I feel like I'm watching and listening to a sequel during the entire 2nd half of this video.
Jajajajajaj
For real, it's kinda scary common sense isn't common any more
ON GOD
You are right, Ashtyn. The country is great to most Americans because they haven't been to other countries and/or haven't lived anywhere else. That is why it is ok to say it is a great country...but not ok to say that therefore it is (by default) the greatest.
I am German and we all remember what happened when we thought we were better than everybody else. It is a dangerous attitude
Saying your country is great doesnt make it an empire tho, chill with your guilt little german kid, only some delusional Americans believe its #1
I am probably older than you...little Kevin kid @@kevinzk71
@@derwolf9670 oh i dont care
good for you @@kevinzk71
@@jarvaniv1157 They should all go to USA. You bomb it you deal with the consequences.
My brother is a professor at the university in Baltimore. He once told me that after a successful lecture he gave, some students approached him for some extra talk. One of them asked where is he from, and when he told him he is from Hungary, the student thought it's one of the US states.
Sad life
Wow. Érdekes. Sokan azt sem tudják, hogy mi létezünk-e. (tisztelet a kivételnek)
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This country is truly too stupid to save
And all of the college students in or from your country knows all common sense knowledge? There are stupid people or college students everywhere in every country, state, city, or town. That doesn't mean all people there are dumb. When you suggested that, you're definitely dumb.
Drinking at the age of 21 is not what I call freedom 😂😂
Can get drafted into war at 18
Can't drink until 21
In Puerto Rico we can!
Bentayga yea students, when they start paying for their healthcare and for their education trust me they would wanna go back... every country has freedom and freedom of speech ...
Bentayga fist of all my profile picture isn’t the german flag and every European country has freedom of speech
Eeheej de belgische vlag
I've never lived in Somalia - and I dont need to live there for 5 years to know, it's NOT better than Denmark, the country I currently live in.
So that statement is just bullshit. Try again 'murica.
Only Americans think it is the greatest.
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I think u cannot accept the Truth. I can easily name all the atrocities US commit . If I say US deliberately kill children and women in all wars and could still get away scot free , do u believe it? Kofi Annan was so angry and helpless , but what can he do? What we are seeing in US society is just a facade : on the surface, they seems compassionate, free and loving , deep inside , it is a rotten society, full of moral degradation.
William Stewart Well have you visited the US? Or have you just dealt with a handful in your days? If you go to big cities, yes... you will find more idiots then anything. You need to go to the heart land. The small farm towns and areas the turn the American wheel. We aren’t diluted. In fact most of us seem quite cold to the chipper city folk. We’re more cold because we’re more grounded. City folk have everything given to them in exchange for money. Out by me, even if you had the most money, it wouldn’t get you very far. Closest Walmart or big box store is 4-5 hrs away. We depend on hunting and fishing and growing of crops to survive. Money can’t buy you those skills and traits. It’s not for everybody, but for those of us who love it, we keep the wheel turning. I can also admit that we are not the greatest country. We are in a downward spiral. The unemployed are carried by the employed. And oddly enough the families with unemployed parents usually live better then the employed family. Parents are working so much that kids aren’t raised right. And the ones that are unemployed collect free money and still done raise their kids right. The other day I was in Chicago for a meeting. I own a farm and was meeting to become the main supplier for a particular brand. I stopped at a shop at the store to buy a few things and I heard a conversation behind me. They were two woman and one was talking about how they need more money and the other said just get pregnant. I wanted to throw up. The more kids you have here the more money the gov gives you. Which is ultimately income tax dollars. I work 60+ hours a week on my land. When I get paid, 32% of the money I earned is handed to the federal government and the state I live in. That’s why moronic idiots get rich and famous in US. Those people get paid to distract you from what’s going on and doing something about it. I’ve been to the UK. It’s very nice but it was not laid back at all. I felt judgement and hate all around not even going to lie. But that might be because I’m foreign to the UK. I’ve been to the Netherlands and didn’t feel that way though.
We are right
At least with my American freedom i wont get sent to jail for "Hate speech"
The irony of how the argument 'It's the only country that we know, so of course it's great to us" was ripped apart moments later when the informed statistics came following the video restart. You don't have to travel to be informed.
"Its the only country we know so of course its the great to us" The best statement of all time............
Well I'd say that's also because you don't bother to learn any other countries ways. If you go on holliday to let's say the Netherlands. Do amerikans try to speak dutch in the super market?? No they stick to english even though that's not a first or second language there. When I was 10 I had been to italy, germany, england, france... And in every country I come I try to speak their language and ajust to their ways. No amerikan will ever do that. Becuase they are too proud and too ignorant.
I sucked at it but I tried my best even at 10 years old. And the people there never ever ridiculed me even once, they tried their best to understand me and helo me out because they saw a struggled. In amerika people belittle you when you don't know something and it kills your spirit. It makes it so that you won't dare to take the chance to be wrong next time. And that's whats wrong with your country. You are stubborn, head strong, yoi ridicule people struggling to better themselves and to top it all off you are actually proud of being amerikan! Instead of shouting you're so great. Try listening for a change.
I wonder if the people in North Korea say the same? "This country is the only one we know, so of course It's great to us". And what did the slaves who was born to slavery say: "Oh, I don't know anything else so this must be great!". I'm sorry, you guys are good, I am sure about that, but you have to admit that the logic in that statement was a bit strange.
Missed ever point he was making lol
Hari sankar No it’s not no. All be it is a true statement, for like about half of Americans who haven’t traveled to other countries. It’s great to us because we’ve seen what has happened in other countries, Vietnam, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Germany. We’ve only seen the terribleness in other countries and not the good parts, because some of the 207 sovereign countries, not that much have a good governments or economy. Haiti has only ONE university in the entire country and has the most people killed by AIDS. China, where you are practically stalked on the internet by the government and are retained from your right to free speech. Pakistan, where they hold out hostages from other countries who were not even in war. Afghanistan, where LGBTQ+ are stoned and thrown off buildings and women are being killed for not wearing an article of clothing. And America, were we have 50,060,592 people we have killed, oh and I only counted 3 wars and 2 of them weren’t even that big, we also have people that believe if men sit with there legs apart because it’s more comfortable for them because it doesn’t squish there nuts than it’s sexist for women. We don’t think we are the best because we live here. We think we are the best because of what we have seen.
yeah bc they don't bother to know about other countries...a lot, not all, but a lot of times they can be self-centered
"There's a lot of lazy people in America..." What an ironic thing for them to say
Right so you bust your ass work hard and still can barely get by is lazy
@@mackjohnson8912 sitting on a couch reacting to videos is not really hard. Making quality videos is hard.
Crazy people are everywhere
@@EvoSwatch so that’s only americans who do reaction vids? oh i didn’t kno that
America is a continent, not a country
No such thing as a greatest country in the world, they're all different. Countries have strengths and weaknesses. Some countries are the greatest in the world in certain aspects like the Military, or Economically or Socially, but they also have areas for improvement, the USA is no different, thinking your country is the greatest/ doesn't need improvement is a fatal mistake.
Thinking ones country is the greatest and thinking it doesn't need improvement are two entirely different things. The US has pushed free markets more than any other country, free markets cut global poverty by 50% in a 20 year span (arguably the best thing to happen to humanity). The US has the most freedoms and is the only country with absolute free speech. It is objectively the greatest, that is why everyone comes here. That isn't saying it doesn't have a plethora of faults.
@@bararobberbaron859 Norman Borlaug is the best human that ever lived? A very dubious claim.
I would very much like to see this "objective research" about "which country does the most good for the world". How exactly do they make such a claim? As for freedom of the press, what exactly are they prevented from saying? They can't publish military secrets but beyond that, what are they prevented from publishing?
@@bararobberbaron859 So your an altruist? What makes a person good is what they have done for other people? What makes you good is determined the number of people you save? I'm not implying it was a bad thing he did, but your standards of good/bad are suspect.
As for someone better, I would say Aristotle (or even Tom Aquinas. I would throw in Ayn Rand, but it is unlikely she ever influenced Borlaug). Borlaug used reason, the scientific method, an objective understanding of the world. Every person who accomplishes anything does that. Every person who has those things, got them from Aristotle. Man doesn't just know how to "do research". Borlaug helped poor people get food. That's a positive thing. But every person who ever improved any aspect of life (including the people who enabled Borlaug to do his research, previous research, wealth to have time to research), was enabled to do so by Aristotle. Aristotle wasn't an altruist, so by your standard, you are right he doesn't make the cut. You should rethink altruism. Ask yourself why that is that standard of the good.
@@bararobberbaron859 You should also be grateful to the inventor. If they didn't invent the tools, there is no repairman. In some sense, Aristotle plays a role in the invention of everything. As for him standing on the shoulders of giants, I'm not entirely sure I agree. If I don't know how to cook an egg, and somebody tells me that throwing it in the air is the answer, that doesn't help me figure out how to cook it. Everyone for Aristotle had illogical ideas. Sometimes illogical ideas are worse than no ideas.
You just kind of pushed the reasoning back one step. I said "why is altruism the standard of the good" and you said "well it is isn't but you can make a mark on the world using it". Why is making a mark on the world the standard of the good? I only make a point of it because altruism is irrational. No one has ever been able to justify why one should sacrifice their values for another person.
@@bararobberbaron859 "And it's your opinion that altruism is irrational, let's not claim opinions as facts here."
Not an opinion. If something is rational, you can justify it with argumentation. No one has ever given a proper justification of altruism. Also, if you feel good about doing something for others, that isn't altruism. Altruism isn't "doing stuff for others". Altruism is that the standard of morality is other people. Egoists can do stuff for others. Other people are not the standard for egoists.
I'm from South Africa and America actually scares me. I'm scared that if I was to visit that I would say the wrong thing and get shot. This clip is from The Newsroom. I actually liked this show. It was well liked and highly rated. I don't understand why it only lasted 3 seasons.
I'm very good friends with my neighbours. I've had them over for Christmas lunch, Easter, BBQ's and I've been to their places for the same and the odd weekend we would have wine or beers in the street and watch the kids play in the street.
I love how old this clip is and unfortunately still current
"If you wanna be a doctor you go to the school and you study and then you can become a doctor, it's really the land of opportunity"
I can't think of a single country where that wouldn't be the case...
@Kiss Kitty that's not true. I'm a Muslim in a third world country and I have three elder sister.
1 of them is a gynecologist.
2nd is a first class government employee and 3rd is a computer engineer....
Really? I can think of a lot of countries where it isn´t that easy as you seem to believe.
@@origenesii6558 You mean a country where it isn't that easy to go to medicine school? Like a country that would have you pay so much for that school that you would be crippled by debt by the time you come out? Where can we find such a country, I wonder.
My remark was more about the fact that, in every country, if you manage to go and finish medical school, then you are a doctor. If you wanna argue about how hard it is to get into such a school, the USA isn't one to talk. At all.
@@Shinshokuful Nobody doubts that you´re a doctor if you finish medical school, but that wasn´t what you said. You said there is no country where not everybody could go to school and study if he/she wants to become a doctor. There are many countries where a large number of children have no chance to go to school or to study even if they want to. I don´t know where you live, but the world isn´t everywhere the same.
@Kiss Kitty you are obviously dont know islam/muslim. There are literally millions of islam/muslim women that has career. Some becomes housewife out of own need.sure minority are abused but i believe other religion also have some of this minority
"The world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy"? I can think of a few arguments against the first statement including but not limited to: Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Gentilesci, Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Shakespeare, Marlow, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dickens, Tolstoy, Conan Doyle, Byron, Shelley (both Percey and Mary), Eliot, Mozart, Beetoven, Handel, Stravinsky, Lennon and McCartney. Though, to be fair, I am Scottish and educated.
He was referring to at the time, not of all-time, hence the "not anymore attitude." America didn't exist while the majority of those people were alive. After America was established, there were few who could compete with the likes of Twain, Warhol, Elvis, Sinatra, Edison, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, all the athletes, musicians, and actors that come from America, etc. I'm sorry that you're butthurt, but pretending that America didn't dominate world culture just because the Beatles existed and some writers and poets existed hundreds of years ago is ignorant. There's a reason everyone in the world owns an iPhone and speaks English and it's not because blood sausage and crumpets are so appetizing.
Scottish and did not mention Rabbie Burns tsk tsk tsk.
@@Counterchalk ps the world speaks English because the British empire dominated a 1/3 of the world and implemented the nations to learn the language. Thats why gaelic is just about a dead language.
3/4 of those you mentioned were dead before America was a country.......i could spit out a long list of names too. Proves nothing. Just means you googled a list of great artists, nothing more.
@@Counterchalk This is also a sign of lack of knowledge from other parts of the world outside of America...
Salvator Dali
Federico Fellini
Pierpaolo Pasolini
Andrej Tarkovskij (from the ex Soviet Union btw)
David Bowie
Basically every recent philosopher
The Clash
Italo Calvino
Luis Sepulveda
And many more..just because it didn't reach your part of the world doesn't mean it didn't influence the rest of us
This country has never been great. Ask any person of color. It has done amazing things. Inventions - music - advances in science, of whom whose contributions are immeasurable and have changed their field. We are a long way from greatness.
East Asians and Indians have a higher average income than whites. Black Americans are the richest black community on Earth. Blacks from traditional two-parent families have outcomes nearly identical to whites.
It's quite an emotional thing to watch, a proud nation, with so much potential, and yet it's imploding, collapsing under the weight of its debt, crime and millitary
it is just too young, and must learn there lessons if they don`t want too learn the lessons of history.
"It's the people who really ruin it" wait what? "You can become a doctor, go to school for it, get into politics, etc". Literally nothing you said is an American only thing and it's actually harder to do those here than in many other countries. Bro it's 2019. We aren't so different or better than any other democratic country. In most rankings we are actually more upper middle class in terms of wealth, happiness, "opportunity", and every stem curriculum. You talk like someone from a middle class suburb and has no idea how unfair the country is because you live in the better half. Just saying.
"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States
He hires the "sorority girl" later on in the series, in a pretty awesome scene.
damn it, I love the Newsroom, first season was amazing and I have watched it so many times, by now I know it by heart. The show was the reason I started to learn about US politics, because I was pretty much sure that politicians are not that way in reality. Well imagine my surprise. I thought those were made up stories. Anyway I don't know why Sorkin changed the formula after the 1st season and made it boring in some way.
Of course the topic of this reaction is the most iconic, but you are right, the show is full of great awesome scenes. For instance, "Why Maggie cut her hair" always gives me chills
SORORITY GIRL!
It's not "lazy" people - its entitled people who put their own personal interests above their inherent responsibility to their fellow citizens and to the society they live in.
To me it's simple. You don't get to claim greatest country when 50 million people live below the poverty line.
Also being in the mid 40's for life expectancy while having per capita healthcare spending around double the next highest spending country on earth is not an achievement. Hell go to most any other country in the western world and America is the example that is quickly brought up even by those that lean right to laugh anyone that suggests that private healthcare would be more efficient off the stage as an obvious raving lunatic. Efficiency is most definitely not spending twice as much money per person and getting worse results, being efficient by any sane definition would mean getting better results per dollar spent per person.
Facts
Not a true number
it's 35 million actually
It's scary how relevant his speech still is, even though it's from like 2011 or 2012.
casualsuede not really.
@@Azrael.777 Agreed maybe he has never heard of Paul Harvey (Feedom to Chains or If I Were the Devil)
my dad was in the navy in the 70s dealing with dictators from the middle east, they also had a huge recession in the 80s. Also they had huge issues with police and they were called the gang in blue.
My dad is white and his step dad is black and him mom married his step dad in the 1960's.
We are dealing with the exact same problems then we do now, the reason why it will never be fixed is because each decade of children believe this is a new problem they know how to fix just like your comment about it being relevant and its from 2011 when i saw alot of these same issues in the 90s and my dad saw them in the 70s.
His speech is not relevant wake up and do your research.
If it wasn't for American defence spending and intelligence the majority of countries below it in defence spending would be worse off. Very few members of NATO spend the required 2% or above of GDP on their military. Canada, America's closest neighbour didn't spend the required 2% of GDP, and in 2018 actually reduced spending further, because the Canadians know they can rely on their southern neighbour to defend them. How much are they saving to spend on policies American's are paying for by virtue of having a strong military?
Germany too reduced spending, and Germany is the strongest economy in Europe, what initiatives can they spend their money on instead of military, knowing as they do as a member of NATO that America's military will be there for them? So American's are paying for Germany's defence too, at the cost of potentially society changing programs. Spain doesn't meet the 2% GDP requirement for NATO membership, France doesn't, Luxembourg doesn't Belgium doesn't, Italy doesn't...
… only Britain, Estonia, Greece, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania were estimated to have met the 2% goal last year, and the latter five have fairly unimpressive GDP's, making the 2% and their overall militaries rather, uh, weaksauce. America makes up nearly 70% of NATO's overall spending. Which makes America the de facto guardian of all those "free countries", and it makes Americans the people paying to ensure the safety of those countries...
… while countries like Germany, a giant economy, can spend the money it saves on its military on other things, like social programs, education, workforce initiatives... be assured, if it was tasked with maintaining a military worthy of the name, it could not afford those things so easily. So it _should_ be thanking the United States of America every damn day, as should the majority of Europe, but instead America is more often than not derided in European press and media, and that is drilled into the populations, making comments like half of those seen in this comments section kinda hilarious.
Just snooty ill-informed Europeans calling Americans ignorant, and insulated.
I'm British, and even I know America is head and shoulders above the rest of the West, because the majority of the West leans on America to attain any kind of greatness. My country's defence and intelligence is in large part provided by the United States. And as far as I'm aware, with its codified constitution and bill of rights, America really is the only country in the West with _guaranteed_ freedoms.
Pretty great if you ask me. Free speech in Britain is under attack, and there is no first amendment people can point to, to defend it. Instead our constitution is based in legislation, and we now have laws akin to blasphemy laws, making criticism of ideologies a no-no, and hate speech laws that silence criticism of really rather horrible, foreign cultural norms, such as female genital mutilation, and forced and arranged marriages, and polygamy etc.
Lol. Did they watch the whole clip thinking it was real??
Well, which one? America is not the greatest anymore, or the newsroom clip? Both are real.
@abcdefg14372 even if it is part of a show we have numbers to show how america isn't the greatest especially if all we focus on is capitalism
And he's a popular actor lol
Technically it is real lmfao america isnt the greatest country yes its the biggest yes it has the best army but still yall mfkers gotta pay to go learn and still dont learn that much 🤔 was steve jobs american? No he was from uk uk has much more freedom cuz we dont have to pay to go to hospital and dont need to pay to go to college cuz america just wants to take ur money.. hint Obama care was meant to be cheaper but it wasnt lmao
@@rio2586 What country is better? LOL none
5:20 most Countries teach us about other countries. Unlike America. who teaches them America.
One of the most powerful scenes in television history
My great grandmother got mugged in Ireland. They saw her passport was Canadian they returned it. I went to the Netherlands a few years ago. Forgot I had a Canadian flag on my backpack and I got free drinks. The USA invades, Canada liberates.
$22 trillion in debt. A dollar currency printed by the Federal Reserve, losing its value daily.....
We're hardly a rich nation.
Wow! Applause! You're 1% of your whole population to actually realise and acknowledge that. Props.
Remember: debt is the currency of nations. Debt to you and I is different with trading.
@@LordDaret that actually sounds stupid
Daniel Kapp look up the south sea bubble. Give a bit of explanation on how it works.
The amount of debt America owe is bigger the amount of flat earthers and people who believe angles are real in America
Imo, the best tool to see which countries are the best is the human development index. It factors in a lot of stuff. I think the top 4 atm are 1. Norway 2. Switzerland 3. Ireland 4. Germany. The US is somewhere around 15 I think.
It's a TV show called The Newsroom, you CAN watch more of this, seasons of it.
This is from a tv show called the newsroom
i miss that show....
Cheers
@happyz hoodwinker with all that's happened they could revive it. But to many have moved on to other things.
noowaay
THANK YOU
The point is Americans constantly tell the world their the best.
Yeah, but we know its not true....but you can't lie The Americans were some of the most inspiring people to who ever walked this Earth.
Only world's super power. Even with all our problems, we're the greatest country in the world.
@@jackwatson3944 you can do better than that. Sorry attempt at comedy
@@jackwatson3944 when there's any problem in the world who you going call? not the ghost busters. I can do that too.
@@davidw2433 now that's comedy
Come experience the UK, freedom of speech without being slaughtered for it, tolerant unarmed (in most cases) police force who in the whole work with us and for us, it is illegal to own a firearm of any kind without a strict permit procedure and we can walk our streets at night. 6th highest economy in the World and No1 by area, high GDP and good standard of living, best of all, NHS....our beloved health service....sorry guys but I find that one hard to beat...
A pack of cigarettes is almost 10 pounds, your gastronomy is basically non-existent (your national dish is chicken tikka masala which is indian for f*ck sake), the value of the pound has fallen almost 30% over the last 5 years and your goverment was one of the most irresponsible (let's please not bring up the USA) regarding coronavirus' measures when the outbreak first started. How are you the greatest country in the world?
@@Ten2378 At least get it right. So cigarets our biggest problem. Glad I don't smoke then, UK national dish is Sunday roast and/or fish and chips. I certainly know its not the best and will argue with you or the original comment but at least we aren't as bad as any EU countries.
Uk is not the best in the world but it’s still a whole lot better than America and yes the pound has dropped but if you compare it to the US Dollar well let’s just say it would be unfair, atleast they have a truthful education system not telling lies about the Cold War, Columbus among other things and trump is a whole lot worse than Boris
I mean, here in the UK, Freedom of speech, isn’t totally free. That’s the difference to the US
God save the QUEEN!
I love how everyone is fighting with each other politically while some countries like Switzerland and even Luxembourg just get on with their own lives. Heck, Antarctica probably has something to say about all this.
the way things are going, we can probably move there soon.
Luxembourg was conquered by Nazi Germany in one day the United States liberated it
Luxembourg was liberated from Germany by the United states and Great Britain. Switzerland never fired a single shot at Nazi Germany while the rest of Europe burned
@@THETBRETT Put your money where your mouth is
@@kevinhasch3097 ...Luxembourg was liberated by Allied forces in September 1944. Allied tanks entered the capital city on 10 September 1944, where the Germans retreated without fighting.mainly the U.S 5th armoured division.
One of the best shows that was on TV. Aaron Sorkin is a great writer and Jeff Daniels and Sam Waterston led a brilliant cast. I miss that show. We need it back more than ever. The political landscape is rife with important material.
Every Country had its pros and cons. I don't think any singular nation could claim to be 'The Greatest'.
The U.S is the most powerful, but that's not the same thing.
I'd have to say it has more positives than negatives though.
(Greetings from the U.K !)
Depends how you define powerful?
db db military spending
China might be the most powerful military. * *MIGHT BE* *
It does amaze me that in the USA you have to declare your political alliance when registering to vote.
You don't. You can register as "Non Partisan" which is no party affiliation. You cannot however vote in partisan preliminaries but you can vote in local city/county elections and in national elections.
@@tigioma3761 the fact that you are asked this question at all when registering to vote is a violation of most human rights to have a free and fair election. It also embeds a two party system.
He looks like the guy that isn't Jim Carrey in dumb and dumber
He is that guy.
DUUUUUUH
😤
😂
Jeff Danials?
This scene pulled me into the show (The Newsroom). This was actually form the first episode. I was hooked. This is an amazing series! I recommend watching it!
"Guy from dumb and dumber, he's actually really smart" LOL American's can't separate actors from their roles :D
I am a Brit and I am coming over to the states next year to coach soccer. I love America and am very grateful to be given an opportunity to experience your culture and way of life.
No doubt you've wangled competent health insurance, otherwise you're fekked.
I live in the US and travel quite a bit. There are many awesome countries out there. The Netherlands. UK. Italy. But I don’t live in any of them so it’s hard to say. I can say I visited 3 countries in Africa, and while it was an amazing experience, I can tell I wouldn’t want to live there full time.
At the end of the day humans in the US and humans in every other country generally want the same thing. Leave it to humans though to make everything so difficult.
The united kingdom is not country btw.
Yet you are still living here. There's a reason people risk their lives to even make it here
Pete Frenna people also migrate to italy france and the uk canda for example just because you only see people wanting to come to the us cause you live in the us doesn't mean people don't also want to go to other places for a better life.
@@awesometv1265 Ya but they do legally they dont cross borders ilegally and risk their lives, thats the difference pal.
@@kevinzk71 Do you not follow the news pal of all the Muslims in the ocean being rescued by boats in an effort to flee from their country to Europe illegally risking drowning just a couple months ago look up all the illegal immigration to European countries just cause you don't live there and aren't as informed as the people who live there doesn't mean it doesn't happen and its naive and stupid to think America is the only country with illegal immigrants.
I live in Ireland, but i lived in Australia for four years, and i have to say, i think it’s the best country in the world.
It’s by far one of the safest, the education system is miles ahead of the US, the natural world within it easily the most beautiful i’ve ever seen, the country is so welcoming to diversity and multiculturalism, and the government actually gives a shit about the people, and there are so many holidays! Not annual ones, but if you want to take a week off work you’re free to do it without worrying about financial problems.
Not to mention medical bills practically don’t exist in public hospitals. If your kid gets cancer, or you break your arm, it’s all free to fix.
And people are so nice! When i moved there i was expecting the stereotypical, crocodile dundee sort of people but it’s the opposite. The country is so advanced politically too, it’s totally unlike America, which is divided in several different ways.
The whole place is united.
I honestly can’t think of any negatives about Australia, and i really wish i could just move there and live there forever. It was by far the best four years if my life.
Too many dangerous animals and dangerous weather events in Australia.
Give me dangerous animals, which generally leave you alone, over "the right to bear arms" any day. that, my friend, is far more dangerous. In Aus, auto or semi auto firearms are banned with MASSIVE penalties if you are caught with one. TO get licence for a single shot rifle or hand gun is very hard. Criminal records, Psyc evaluation and reason for wanting it come into the process. Our healthcare is FAR FAR FAR better. I know Obahma tried to do a version of ours, but missed the point...FREE HEALTH CARE. I had spinal surgery and a week in Hospital, including Meds. COST ME $0.00. BUT we do have a HUGE cost of living as the Government taxes the crap out of everything. Yeah I can get DAMN hot here but, we are used to it.
Helen Trope Only dangerous thing i saw when i went was a spider on a balcony. Honestly, the place is probably the safest country i’ve ever visited
@@heliotropezzz333 "dangerous weather events" LOL what a stupid sentence, what, something you can buy tickets for LOL, weather is enough, dont understand the thing about adding useless and meaningless words, makes no sense
@@andreasedvinsson7410 I just meant instances of different types of dangerous weather and different dangers triggered by weather. Nothing to get your knickers in a twist about.
A lot of opportunities like becoming a doc?
Seriously bruh? Like, tell a poor guy to go to college 🙄 so developed yet such a lack of solidarity 😅 can’t even go to hospitals without having to pay tens of thousands of dollars in a medium serious case. I prefer paying 15% each month and helping poor people at the same time. Win/win vs win/lose. Figure that out...
Yeah, the rest of the world can see it... one guy unfortunately died at the hands of police and the world saw a country fall apart... Pretty fragile society.
@@snowboxesful it's not unfortunate !!
@@snowboxesful it was already building up for decades, the pandemic & social media amplified it sort of like a mass hysteria thats why there were protests all over the world.
You're thinking of Dumb and Dumber
Actually Athol Kay, you and Jon are BOTH right. This is from a show called the newsroom. But yes, the same actor played all three roles.
@@tomesofawesome8041 ,
You AND Jon, are both wrong...
...this character (and one from dumb and dumber) is (are) played by Jeff Daniels...
...Joey on full house is played by Dave Coulier
@@timcarder2170 Oh REALLY???? Oh. :( Okay. My bad. I was sure it was the same guy. Okay.
actually, we are watching dumb and dumber watch a video
No. They are.
To that women who says you cant judge by not living there. False. Its called education. In europe we get world history education not just our own country history. Thats maybe the main difference.
You guys actually watched this thinking it was real.. lmao
@Mark Coakley Which also explains part of their main problem right now ... they are removed from reality and critical thinking ... at some point the video clearly said a definite number of countries and the dude reacting to it was certain that a "fraction" was mentioned... Dude, it was one minute ago, how could you forget! Even Duffy Duck had a greater attention span :p
Except everything said in this clips IS true.USA is NOT the greatest country in the world.
It has a meaning. No country is perfect. Some are better in other categorys. USA has the best army but it's not the happyest. Island, Norway and Finland are considered the happiest.
I don't see how knowing it's from a tv series is at all relevant here. And btw, attempting to point out that someone doesn't know something with the intend of rideculing them is shamefull. And it's killing any aspiration for people to learn and better themselves. Stop shuttig people down. You learn most from your mistakes and by ridiculing others you make it so that they'll never dare to take the chance to be wrong.
The facts are real no matter where the source came from.
There’s a european country or two that pays for its citizens education...that alone makes them better than either the US or Canada.
it's not one or two.. it's basically every one with a small number of exceptions
Their taxes are probably through the roof
@@ethanalberts3326 I can't complain. I'm single and have a netincome of around 25000€ per year (after taxes) with a pretty normal skilled trade job and after paying rent, electricity, heating, insurances (car, household), groceries, phone, internet i still have around 800-1000€ left to play around with.. i have universal health care, 25 mandatory paid days of vacation by law+religious holidays and such, unlimited sickdays if i need them, my own car, i get one full paycheck extra twice a year (holiday and christmas) and overall a comfy life in a very pretty rural region near the city of vienna (austria)
Ethan Alberts they probably are. But the tax money is actually being put to practical use and not lining the pockets of politicians.
@@coltino99 and the worlds biggest military .. by far.. just think of it.. the military budget of the usa is bigger than all the others in the world combined!! do you think that money just get created or something?
5:14 Thats called curiosity, broadening your horizons and simply been objective or impartial.
As a Belgian, i know the great things and the shitty things of my country, but if you are informed enough and not scared to ask questions or to go to places no others would, that how you're able to draw the bigger picture and see it in its ensemble.
The Greatness of a country starts by the Greatness of its people and their ability to try to reach for more, thats what was the American Dream back in the day, the idea that through Hard Work and perseverance, anyone could be anything.
Thats what, was lost somewhere in between then and now, for a variety of reasons.
When things goes to shit, its never because of ONE thing, its a series of thing, that when seeing like that as no importance or relation to each other, some of you might be familliar with the Chaos Theory by now.
And thats why it takes time and efforts to fix it, its not a singular cause why its fucked, so it cannot depend on a singular solution.
This scene is from a VERY GREAT show called "The Newsroom" which happened to have some of the greatest political scenes in television.
No it sucks ass
@@ZenNeonRazor of course some don't have the smarts to get it...
@@gordowg1wg145 Mostly I can't stand idealistic optimist patriot bullshit.
I love the US as a holiday destination. And have been there several times and will continue to go back but I don't think I'd ever want to live there personally though. At least from the outside the country seems so consumed by social and political angst that is dividing the country. It feels like the same is happening in the UK a bit too. I feel like the only industry that would ever require re-locating to the US would be the entertainment industry. But even then London has a very strong entertainment industry in its own right so that's an alternative option. But simply for entrepreneurial endeavours countries like Canada, Australia, Germany, UK etc. are all extremely thriving business-centric locations with plenty of opportunities. And then countries like Japan have an extremely respectful culture with great work-ethic. Japan is also a tech giant. Every country has flaws but so many have freedom, opportunity, high-quality of life etc. It's all about preferences and which aspects of certain countries speak to you as a person and to your interests.
Rule, England, rule !!!
Denmark will officially declare war on you, if you move your entertainment industy anywhere! I would choose a British movie or Tv series over anything American, in a heartbeat. I would estimate, that 75 % of TV series on Danish television are British made. Midsummer, Downton, All Creatures, Holby, The Royal, my personal favorite Foyle´s War and so on - We absolutly love them! The Quartet, My Home in Hampstead, The Geurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Another Mothers Son, Darkest Hour, A Bridge Too Far - some of the best movies ever! Any actor worth watching, from 1935 till present time is/was British. So dont you dare! :)
I grew up in the 50's and 60's and I remember those times. You could leave your keys in your car, your bike in the front yard and not lock your door and no one would steal. There was a moral compass in the U.S. It was that compass that supported the civil rights movement, and the woman's movement. Now people search for things to be outraged about true or false and overreact with unthinking emotion and violence, like a nation of Pavlov's dogs. As Faith and morality dies so does this nation. Change it to get what some group wants, but they're not sure of what they want except power to impose their wishes on rest of their fellow citizens. One of the first coins minted in the U.S. said, "MIND YOUR BUSINESS." I like that saying and try not to stick my nose in other people's lives unless it affects me. The Government should abide by that, and they use to.
The first part of the rant is great, the second falls into the same sentimental bullshit he argued against in the first half. I'm conflicted.
As Jim Jeffries said " out of all the free countries you have the most incarcerated people in the world, therefore of all the free countries you have the least amount of free people"
VIDEO: "I'm not letting you go to the airport without answering the question."
MY BRAIN: "Well, that would be considered kidnapping, wouldn't it?"
Seriously, though, that was a great speech.
You can't sue a social media company for taking your posts down because the posts break their guidelines. The first amendment protects you from being arrested for what you say. It doesn't protect you from companies taking down posts you make in their service. If you want to post your stuff without anyone being able to take you down, host your own stuff. Otherwise, if you are using someone's service, you have to adhere to their guidelines.
“You want something, you can get it here...”
Unless of course it’s a COVID-19 Test.... That you can only get if you’re rich....
Or work directly with someone who’s rich....
This is the first scene from a great series, The Newsroom. Amazing writing. Go watch it.
Anytime his girl opens her mouth, I get this itch that she doesn’t know wtf she’s talking about ever lol
The Newsroom is a great program. You’re bang on, there is nothing wrong with, and a lot right with, national pride. It’s just that no one can say their country is better than all others, especially when you don’t define the criteria for measuring. I’m proud to be Canadian but I wouldn’t claim to be the best. It also doesn’t blind me to what’s wrong in our country. Glad to watch you experience this. Where we are today is everyone’s fault and we all have to work together to get things back in the rails. First we have to learn to listen to others and talk openly with them, even when we disagree. Cheers!
This is a scene from the pilot episode of HBO’s “The Newsroom”. Jeff Daniels is the actor and the show was written by Aaron Sorkin.
Australia is the best because we're all alone with New Zealand just having fun staying away from the drama
Well, your immigration policy is pretty fucked up. Not really alone either.
so so, Hahahahah, because you guys don’t have any border issues? Our government has turned away refugees for the last 5 years. We had a problem Yes! We fixed it. How’s your wall going? Or is he getting impeached
All country's are equal
It never was the greatest country never mind "any more"
True!🤨🤨🤨🤨
Then leave
@@kevinhasch3097 Never lived there and won't ever!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@hendo19742 Good
@@kevinhasch3097 Yo mama
I live in Norway, and see today that America is destroyed, but a hundred years ago many Norwegians traveled to the United States due to The Amercan dream. Today, many return home. Today's America is struggling with "Me too" Black lives matter ++++++. When Obama became president, Europe cheered with the black population of the United States. Then came Trump, and then we cried for the United States. And from what I understand, not many people are happy with the one you have now either. When you lost the unions, working life went to hell. When you went to the Korean War, when you went to Vietnam, there were many who thought America had grown big on its own. Since then, the United States has played World Police for most continents, most recently Iraq and Afghanistan. And how many Americans died in these wars? So wasted it has been. Does the average American think it was right to go into these wars ?
2 know-nothings, who don't know Jeff Daniels, and don't know about "The Newsroom", or Aaron Sorkin.... proves the point of being "uninformed"...
Because they don't know a show? There are only three things I know about the Simpsons: They are a cartoon; they are all yellow; and there is one called Homer, he's is not pronounced the same way as the Ancient Greek author Homér.
@Jesse Gutierrez No need for insults. Keep it honourable
It's not "Joey" from Full House, it's Jeff Daniels or "Harry" from Dumb and Dumber. He also just happens to be one of the world's greatest character actors with a career spanning four decades.
His best role was proberbly as Colonel Joshua Chamberlain in "Gettysburg" from 1993. An amazing performance in a brilliant movie, with great co-stars, such as Martin Sheen, Sam Elliot, Morgan Sheppard, George Lazenby, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan and most perfectly casted of them all, Tom Beringer in the principal role. Jeff Daniels´ role as the man who turned the tide, of the civil war was simply splendid!
How your gonna laugh at this instead of taking it seriously and actually thinking about what he says I don’t know🤷♂️
Jeff Daniels is a GD ACTOR. It's a MOVIE . 😂
mule deek I know that but I still think there’s an element of truth to what he says
What upsets other people from Americans is not only their ignorance and misinformation about other countries, it’s the arrogance of Americans and looking down upon citizens from other countries. Its ok to be proud about your country and believe that it’s great. however, as I said, its the despise that others hate from Americans.
Glad Canada rates higher in all those things.
Yeah just doesn't allow protest in its own country..
I love how they had to had the “anymore”
Hahaha my first thought, ‘when was it?’
jamie midge lmao yeah 😂
@@jamiemidge4983 when the indians lived there, maybe
The best country in the world has a President that shuts the government down and doesn't pay its own people that doesn't sound like the best country in the world you guys love yourselves a bit much
You should never have to pay for an ambulance, that's an important part of freedom.
I have never dreamed to live in America to be honest.
Actually I wonder how people are living there not because anything else, but because of the shooting and killing that happen almost every day?
I may dream to live there if they consider changing the gun laws.
You know there are more people killed by knifes and car accidents than there are people killed in shootings. I hate how people label America as a country that’s nothing but shootings and killings.
@Jesse Gutierrez USA bombs more countries than any other country. So USA kills everyday not only here but abroad.
It never was 😆 just keep your head out of others business 🤷
There's no such thing as a greatest country
When he speaks about freedom you don't have to live for 5 yrs in another country to know they also have freedom and that it's not exclusive to America.
This subject matter is a little over your heads.
Glad I live in Canada.
Everyone will hate me for this: Im proud of being a german
dont be. germany is a gem of the civilized world. o bad the Jews are taking Revenge on Germany till this day.They use the Usa Bitches to corrupt Germany
germany
Nothing wrong with that. Proud German too.
No problem
"You want something here, you can get it because we're such a rich country." Really? How about free health care? How about a financial future in which worry about having to declare bankruptcy because of medical expenses isn't even a thing that exists? How about the feelings of safety and peace that come from walking down a street crowded with strangers, knowing with near 100% certainly that nobody in that crowd is armed with a weapon that could kill you? Is America rich enough to buy that? And for God's sake, shake your head. What makes you think all those other free, capitalist countries don't also offer equal or much better opportunities for education, business success, etc. Oy Oy Oy. But good demonstration.
Well, from an non american perspective I'd say that the greatest thing about the US is their first amendment. Not sure if any other country has it as plainly stated that the state can't infringe on the people's right to say whatever they want (Remember the Count Dankula incident?). But besides that I don't think the US stands out as being all that much greater in anything that you should be proud of.
Note: I'm not trying to put the US down or trying to lift another country up. I'm just giving my honest opinion as I see it.
If only the first amendment (or any of the first 3) was actually followed properly. Despite the fact that we have a document claiming that anyone has the right to say anything, doesn't mean people aren't still arrested for saying things. People are thrown in jail because of mere misunderstandings that were never even investigated. When it works, it's great, but when it doesn't, everything falls apart.
Mr Fafaa yeah except for the fact that you can still be arrested in the USA for saying something like "I want to blow up an airport" so you don't really have total freedom of speech anyway and in fact have about the same as all other developed countries which might not claim to have total freedom of speech but still have the right to criticise politics and voice their opinions so long as they don't incite violence or criminal activity so yeah
We can feel pride in our culture. Every country in the world either consumes our movies, TV, music, etc. Or they copy it. I feel pride in our beautiful country: deserts, forests, tundra, plains, mountains, swamps, rain forests, National Parks. The Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Everglades, etc. Our diversity of people: people from every culture and country on the planet immigrates here. Our holidays, like Thanksgiving and Halloween. Our sports, like football. Our cuisine, like New England Clam Chowder, Cajun food, etc. There is plenty of countries can be proud of and there is plenty Americans can be uniquely proud of!
@@n141t ...
But if you can not know ... stop saying that the United States is the world's best country.
My country has the same good things as the United States... and less of the bad.
and more of your freedom...
So your saying that your country is better and your lecturing Americans not to say that
@@staraptorflock3661 It is a straw man... It's up to everyone to think what they want.
But when you ask a person from the US: "What are you best at?"
Then there are the same benefits in many other countries.
The bad thing I'm talking about ... Murder, drugs, crime .... they are much worse in the United States.
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Doubt it
I'm British and Germany is the best by my understandings
There are a lot of countries that are great :) as an example i am from Austria and i really like my country but scandinavia and tbh a lot of Europe is great
All round I would say Norway wins.
@@Scherminator9999 Australia is a brilliant country
@@lilshank7460 Not my Cup of tea sry
Nah some Scandinavian country
As a norwegian, my brain hurts every time America calls itself the greatest country in the world. First of all, America is a continent, not a country. The US is just a part of North America along with Mexico (yep!) and Canada. And "The American Dream" is a good idea on paper, but it's really swim or sink. No safety net. We have free childcare, free schools, free healthcare and as every other european country, freedom. If you fail in life we have a safety net to make sure you don't end up in the streets, unless you choose to. And when the US talks about having the greatest economy in the world? Well, Norway is the only country in the western world without debt. The US has the largest debt in the western world. And one of the countries you owe the most money to, except for national debt? China...
I live in Australia. And we have more freedom than yous 🤣
Yes really.
@Jesse Gutierrez hold on let me know when did the US get free healthcare? I havent heard that happen and thats one of the BAREST MINIMUM aspects of a great country in my eyes
America is a continent, it isn't a country
@Shane Bettes you should search continents in spanish and you will see
@Shane Bettes The United States are a number of States that have collectively formed a nation on the continent of North America therefore they are the United States OF America
@@XxBloodDrunkxX666 united states... united means all are one ( the same). yet every state still have their own set of rules. what you can do in texas, you cant do in california... so i think (states of) america is a better name for that country, cause you arent united
no america is 2 continents
This comes up in many comment sections. The thing is: People in the United States of America (which is the official name) live mostly in a bubble and refere to their nation as America, while the rest of the world is used to the official names (USA the country ... north and south america as the two parts which together form the continent "America"). So all you are debating over is just a difference in who calls what by what name in their daily life. And that is just wasted time tbh.