Worldwide Picks: What Non-Americans Love About Life in the USA
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Exporting Freedom
Liberty and freedom. It’s not perfect or complete, but you guys care about it more, and do a better job of it than any other nation on earth.
I live in a 1st world country that many Americans use as an example of a better, safer place to live. There’s a lot to love here, but we don’t have all the same protections and freedoms that you do. Liberty is not seen as a fundamental human right outside the US. Free speech isn’t really free in most of the world. In a lot of places, you can be imprisoned for comedy or criticism of government.
Americans are free to go against the grain, and it’s written into your constitution. You have the right to bear arms and defend your families and communities.
I also admire the USA for exporting capitalism, freedom, and security to the world. I’m not pro-war and don’t agree with everything the US does, but you guys are like our big brother who protects us from bullies on a global scale. Without the military power and protection of the USA, many other allied nations would be sitting ducks for hostile takeover by authoritarian regimes.
If you guys weren’t buddies with us guys we’d be studying Mandarin in re-education facilities right now. It’s become popular to criticize and hate American culture, but you lift up people all over the world.
