What's the best thing about your country?
 

Well i would have to say in America the best thing would be that the fact we have two states that look like body parts. Michigan looking like a hand, and Florida (ill just leave it up to imagination).

Yeeeep, that pretty much sums up all of USA right there.

As for Canada, well, fuck, we got Skills somewhere amongst the thirty million of us and he's probably got giant robots and a harem of Japanese schoolgirls in his basement so that's gotta count for something.

Air conditioning

Gotta love it

Good thing about America?

No TV tax.

Due process.

Skillz doesn't have a basement because he lives in an apartment.


Best thing about Canada I think is the vast amounts of untouched wilderness. In the next few years I hope to be able to see these areas. I love going on a canoe trip and canoeing out to random islands in the middle of a lake in the middle of nowhere, and seeing nothing but nature. Nothing better.

That it's impossible to traverse without sacrificing an ass load of time.

Oh wait, that's a negative.

Apartments can have basements. Hell, basements CAN be apartments!

AND, America has a state that looks like an Indian's head--New Jersey!

But, the best thing about America is the natural beauty of the place.

USA: Too many to list.

Not my country, but Canada: Hockey!

Our willingness to do whatever we think is right, regardless of what the facts say. That's willpower there.

Actually, I'm going to go with our College Education system. It sure isn't perfect, but find me a better one.

I love how we have kangaroos jumping in all of our backyards, wombat digging burrows in our front yards, and koalas sleeping in the neighbourhood trees. Grab the vegemite and some lamingtons and you've got yourself a good time! I'm always sure to have my boomerang in tow though, just in case those emus and kookaburras get hungry.

Ah, what a country.

The single greatest aspect of America is that erotic cake bakeries are legal.

But but but cakes are erotic by default. :(

I always keep my boomerang under my bush hat (unless it's in the process of being thrown) with twenty eight corks hanging off it! A spare one's in the thunderbox for safe keeping.

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We also have a giant vortex that consumes everyone foolish enough to get near it, which is why I was so far back when taking this photo. I think it sends them to New Zealand.

I'm sure it's good, but it's not free like ours. I sure think a theoretically free education is something to be proud of.

Best thing about Sweden? No war, no terrorism, no tornados, no volcanos, no earthquakes :)

Also, our beautiful winter landscape.

Universal healthcare is one thing that really doesn't suck about the U.K. in my opinion. Of course it's also one of the things that causes enormous financial problems for the government, and leads to our vast tax burden, but you can't have everything.

I think the best thing about the UK is our insistence on doing what the fuck we want, despite the best efforts of our government to stop us. I find it hard to believe there's any other country where the populace have such a widespread disdain for the law coupled with such a wilful self-destructive streak as in England.

Theoretically as in, not really.


The best thing about America? Diversity. This is the one country that will openly accept anybody (even the Jews), and the resulting homogenizing culture is kickin rad.

Now, though, people are talking about keeping the Mexicans out, but I'm like FUCK THAT.

I wanna eat tamales for thanksgiving, motherfucker.

Free healthcare and multicuturalism wherever I look and not in certain areas only, are the awesome thing about Canada. Not a fan of hockey and lacrosse, but those would definitely spark pride in others.

The best thing about Canada:

A) Our tax money gets spent on things like universal health care and pensions, instead of trying to police the world.

B) All that wilderness.

C) Hockey.

It exists.

It's been said already, but the fact that there is no "standard" American, i.e. the diversity. It makes life really interesting when everyone's family comes from different areas of the world.

That, and nuclear power. Yay for the U.S. government.

The French have got us beat on nuclear infrastructure, so we can't exactly lay claim to it.

We made it. Well, our government did. So the French can do whatever they want, as long as they keep in mind where they got the goods.

The chicks. Most of you will probably raise a fist or two, but I dare say Sweden probably has the most beautiful women this planet has to offer.


Too bad 99% of them are rude sluts.

You mean they won't cook you dinner if you tell them?

No, more like a vast amount of them acts like Paris Hilton.

I think Syndrome explained everything right there. It's truly a shame, but oh, what the hell. Swedish girls know they look good. It's just a matter of time before they're put on conveyor belts and turned into products. And no, they wouldn't complain.

Well as long as they're good in bed. But that's the problem: Good looking doesn't mean good in bed, yes. That's why I prefer Russian chicks, sure, they're not as hot as their Swedish equivalents, but they are told to be grenades in bed.

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stop making me defend France

Russian girls are very nice indeed, the ones that I know are very polite and care to get a proper education, as opposed to the majority of girls in this country. Truth be told, there seems to be a huge phobia of education in this country, especially among girls. It's very disturbing. And it's not that they're dumb, they just don't care. I don't think I've ever come across a girl at the club, or at a party who knows what an engineer is. They all think it has something to do with standing around a machine all day.

She's from Poland, though :( But okay, as long as it stays in Europe, I'm fine with it.

And Einstein was born in Germany, but he sort of shifted allegiances, if you know what I mean.

But he was still German. I don't think anyone's ever described Albert Einstein as anything else.

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But the impression one gets as a foreigner is that in America every racial group sticks to themselves and rather than a homogenized culture, you have a bunch of different people living in racial ghettos across the country.

I think what sums up for me the complete lack of homogenity (Is that a word?) in America is that if you ask any American what race they are they'll spout off this fuck off great long list of Irish, Italian, Spanish, Afrikaans and an 8th Eskimo but none of them would ever tell you they were an American. In England, as with most of Western Europe we have genuine cultural mixing in that our culture has influences from all over the world, we have a huge range of ethnic diversity and yet the majority of people you asked, be they originally of Saxon, Viking, Norman, Indian, Chinese, African or what ever the fuck origin, had they been norn in Britain would call themselves British if asked.

I'm not trying to criticise America here, just interested that you tout racial diversity as the best thing about a country perceived elsewhere in the world as rather a segregated and frankly racist one.

This is as opposed to European multiculturalism, where you segregate each other for the sake of your own cultural uniqueness, and give each other high fives for leaving North Africans in slums.

American immigrants call themselves Americans. What do your immigrants call themselves?

Yeah, but he died American baby IN YO FACE.

That phenomenon is called Balkanization, and this is more or less apparent in large urban areas, not quite different from elsewhere in the world, especially in Europe.

That's the price we pay for touting diversity at its most liberal sense is that we begin to lose sight of the collective being we call "American". The cultural and psychological revolutions of the past century has instilled a lot of racial and cultural identity that oftentimes trumps nationalism. The "hyphenated American" is a norm that is continually being taught, so suddenly, once again, we're more the color of our skin than our personal integrity.

Great Britain may have a better sense of assimilation because of your period as an empire, with holdings in such far-flung and diverse areas, constantly importing different aspects of their cultures into your own both in goods and in people. However, I question your assertion that Europe has a more even ethnic distribution than the United States. I read articles from the Times and other European publication lamenting on the influx of North African and Middle Eastern immigrants that have all but assimilated into the European fabric, instead segregating themselves from the rest of the Europeans in neighborhoods such as the big urban ring around Paris, or even, from another article I don't remember, of undocumented Chinese textile workers in Italy that have essentially ignored anything Italian.

I highly doubt Europe is any significantly more mixed than the United States.

Those people bringing up some laundry list of where their ancestors came from are probably doing so from a technicality, because having all those ethnicities doesn't really lend anything more special than someone whose ancestors came from the same place. This lack of cohesive identity much valued in the past was one of the primary essences of the American experience.

I can personally go off and name what regions of China my ancestors might come from, but with the exception of government paperwork, I would always say I'm an American (well actually, I would say I'm a Texan more often).

Cheese and Amsterdam.

Aaaah, mein Lieblingsschild! :cool:
This one also rocks!
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What 's so great about Bosnia-Herzegovina? Well, if you're a fan of the British driving style, you will love my hometown Bijeljina, because there you drive on the left side, since the right one is being misused as a parking lot. :D

Finland has a good social security compared to many other countries.
Many good metal bands come from Finland as well.
The best thing though, is sauna. :)

Balut, inexpensive food and clothes, fiestas for the most part and the malls (looking at you, SM Mall of Asia).

Cheap imitations of popular product brands, cheap food/stuff/hookers/etc, low/near to none identity theft rate, corrupt politicians (if you know any, your life will be a LOT easier), basically most of the stuff here are cheap. I have an American co-worker who drinks and smokes a lot in here since he said he can't do those back in the US because it's a bit more expensive.

Sweet tea, beautiful women, big trucks, open spaces.

While these can be applied to the USA with brevity, I'm really thinking about THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.

Probably because more than 70% of the Swedish are blond.

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