Explain why your country is better than the US

[emzie]

Why is the secesstion of a US state any less plausible?

The SCOTUS said it's a State cannot leave. It's happened, but it lead to war. I really doubt if Newfoundland left, it'd lead to war.

Every State has the right to set it's own drinking age. However, the Feds passed a law saying if the drinking age was lower than 21, the State in question would loose Federal money. Every State changed their laws to 21.

The same goes for highways. States set the speed limit on each highway, but if it's higher than what the Feds want (or doesn't exist at all, like in Montana for many years), the State lost Highway money.

Just recently, Congress passed a law mandating that every State have uniform regulations for driver's licenses and state IDs. It effectively created a National ID. Now, a lot of States are unhappy about this and not complying -- and they have the right to not comply. However, in the end, the Feds are just going to threaten to withhold money for something and Washington will get its way.

 

[Yeeek]

My country is not better in any way to the US, it is however different like any other places.

 

[REDY]

Is this guy from Romania?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_PIjc2ga4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gm7aDXNBxc

He is Italian comedy actor. Long life Molvania!

 

[phoenix_night]

Skill schmill, it's dull and boring just like its sibling baseball. At least baseball only tortures its audience for only 3 hours. Cricket can go on for days.

The length of the game isn't a constant. Some cricket matches last only 3 hours.



I think ranking countries is dumb, but still...rugby with the forward pass (and no offside?) is dumber.;

 

[Phlegmak]

He is Italian comedy actor. Long life Molvania!

I just noticed your signature.

"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
George W.Bush

That has to be one of the dumbest things the President that comedian ever said.

 

[Irish Caesar]

My country is not better in any way to the US, it is however different like any other places.

Well, we have a disappointing lack of 12th and 13th century Gothic architecture here, which I think y'all have some good examples of...

But "different" is probably a better word than "better" to describe any two places.

 

[Mirc]

Some perhaps, but Scandinavia had it's pick of women for a few hundred years which allowes me to say that Scandinavian women are the best in northern europe, if not Europe in general.

Pay us a visit and see for yourself. You won't even be sure where to look first...

 

[mitsho]

Anna Nicole Smith? (I think that joke hasn't been made yet, unlike the George W. Bush one... )

 

[GinandTonic]

Im sure everywhere has things to be said for it, however -

1 - The Pub. Just not right outside UK/ Ireland and possibly Oz.

2 - Self depricating humor/ Irony etc.

3 - The BBC.

4 - The NHS.

5 - Sloe Gin. Scrumpy. Ale. Bitter

6 - Public transportation being the quickest way between point A and B.

7 - Acording to this board you fellas still have top-loading washing machines, and sometimes have to add the bleach by hand. We gave up such foolishness in the 70's.

8 - We end a good TV series after 2-3 seasons in its prime. You all let them run to 7-8 seasons when the last 3-4 were the subject of ridicule.

9 - However bad Tony is, next to Bush he is a gentleman and a scholar.

 

[Lotus49]

Czech Rep.:
[...]
our history is longer than 300 years.

The Czech Republic is not older than 300 years. There's only a select few countries in Europe that are technically older than the U.S. What? "Well, we had people, buildings and stuff here"? Well, there have been, "people, buildings and stuff" over here for quite a while as well.

We're older than Belgium. Older than Germany. Older than Norway, Finland, Italy, and a whole host of other nations in eastern Europe, including the CZE.

In fact, someone should compile a list of nations that have remained intact politically as they currently stand, which are older than the USA. If your gov't type evolves on it's own (Britain, Russia, etc.) we'll count that. But, if you completely disappear off the map for a period of time, are conquered, 'spun off' from another nation, absorbed, annexed & reformed, etc., that 'resets' your date.

In other words, if I could go back at any point in time until 1776, and ask the locals, "what country am I in?" -And they said, "you're in Sweden", even though I was standing in Oslo... that makes the U.S. older than Norway. Nevermind WWII. -Just as one example. Russia is debatable. France... hmmm, same type of massive revolution post-1776, plus their whole nation was stolen out from under them in 1940.

Ireland - wasn't there at all politically during the Victorian era. Part of the UK. Swizterland, the UK, Spain (revolt/civil war/gov't didn't survive), Portugal - are the only ones I can think of in the west (major nations, anway). In the east... Russia's always basically been there, through one revolultion or another. Greece - hmm, WWII. Off the top of my head, all the other guys in the east have been part of empires, conquered by someone else, etc.

So, I see your statement as wrong.

 

[Mercenary82]

Im sure everywhere has things to be said for it, however -

1 - The Pub. Just not right outside UK/ Ireland and possibly Oz.

2 - Self depricating humor/ Irony etc.

3 - The BBC.

4 - The NHS.

5 - Sloe Gin. Scrumpy. Ale. Bitter

6 - Public transportation being the quickest way between point A and B.

7 - Acording to this board you fellas still have top-loading washing machines, and sometimes have to add the bleach by hand. We gave up such foolishness in the 70's.

8 - We end a good TV series after 2-3 seasons in its prime. You all let them run to 7-8 seasons when the last 3-4 were the subject of ridicule.

9 - However bad Tony is, next to Bush he is a gentleman and a scholar.

Doctor Who has been running for over 40 years, we never had anything last that long.

 

[Felix Luce]

Im sure everywhere has things to be said for it, however -

1 - The Pub. Just not right outside UK/ Ireland and possibly Oz.

2 - Self depricating humor/ Irony etc.

3 - The BBC.

4 - The NHS.

5 - Sloe Gin. Scrumpy. Ale. Bitter

6 - Public transportation being the quickest way between point A and B.

7 - Acording to this board you fellas still have top-loading washing machines, and sometimes have to add the bleach by hand. We gave up such foolishness in the 70's.

8 - We end a good TV series after 2-3 seasons in its prime. You all let them run to 7-8 seasons when the last 3-4 were the subject of ridicule.

9 - However bad Tony is, next to Bush he is a gentleman and a scholar.

I'm not British, but I agree with those, especially the BBC one. It's the only English news company I trust these days. Their journalists are very top-notch and professional, and their articles range within a broad scope of news topic.

 

[Lotus49]

Add Denmark to my list. Wasn't at the top of my mind as a "major nation" (since 1776 anyway), no offense.

Edit: scratch that... WWII.

 

[emzie]

The Czech Republic is not older than 300 years. There's only a select few countries in Europe that are technically older than the U.S. What? "Well, we had people, buildings and stuff here"? Well, there have been, "people, buildings and stuff" over here for quite a while as well.

We're older than Belgium. Older than Germany. Older than Norway, Finland, Italy, and a whole host of other nations in eastern Europe, including the CZE.

In fact, someone should compile a list of nations that have remained intact politically as they currently stand, which are older than the USA. If your gov't type evolves on it's own (Britain, Russia, etc.) we'll count that. But, if you completely disappear off the map for a period of time, are conquered, 'spun off' from another nation, absorbed, annexed & reformed, etc., that 'resets' your date.

In other words, if I could go back at any point in time until 1776, and ask the locals, "what country am I in?" -And they said, "you're in Sweden", even though I was standing in Oslo... that makes the U.S. older than Norway. Nevermind WWII. -Just as one example. Russia is debatable. France... hmmm, same type of massive revolution post-1776, plus their whole nation was stolen out from under them in 1940.

Ireland - wasn't there at all politically during the Victorian era. Part of the UK. Swizterland, the UK, Spain (revolt/civil war/gov't didn't survive), Portugal - are the only ones I can think of in the west (major nations, anway). In the east... Russia's always basically been there, through one revolultion or another. Greece - hmm, WWII. Off the top of my head, all the other guys in the east have been part of empires, conquered by someone else, etc.

So, I see your statement as wrong.

The country is older yes, the nation is not. There was a Norweagian culture in place in what is now Norway hundreds of years before the Kingdom of Norway was established.

Czechs build Prague weather if was in Czechia or not.

Were no American buildings built before 1776?

 

[JerichoHill]

Can some, explain to me, why we feel it necessary to say one country is better than the other?

Smacks of arragance...

I mean, really, what's the point of this thread?

 

[Lotus49]

The country is older yes, the nation is not. There was a Norweagian culture in place in what is now Norway hundreds of years before the Kingdom of Norway was established.

Czechs build Prague weather if was in Czechia or not.

Were no American buildings built before 1776?

Of course there were buildings here before 1776. You didn't just have a bunch of cave-dwellers roaming across the dirt and grasslands, saying "that's it... let's revolt from the British Empire... we can do it!"

Of course I'll grant you, that if you want to see some impressive, old structures, Europe wins hands down. So the native Americans didn't build cathedrals - what are you going to do, sue them? My point is, there were people/nations here, for a long time as well, plus politically speaking, you can't go around saying, "the Czech Republic is older than the USA"... because it simply isn't.

We're not talking about cultures, we're talking about countries. And arguably, the USA/North America has MORE culture than Europe, because we have the natives, PLUS the European culture that was brought over. Yeah... European culture came over here, we are their bretheren, that just decided to look elsewhere. The only thing we DON'T have, is the old structures that their/your/my ancestors happened to build, long ago. Didn't make much sense to bring castles, etc. over on the boat.

Not to mention we have a lot more than merely the natives, plus European culture. This is the western hemisphere... we have just about everything, in terms of bloodline culture. So, if you want stone structures, yeah - Europe is your place for older, more abundant stuff.

But a bunch of rocks does not a country make.

 

[Verbose]

In other words, if I could go back at any point in time until 1776, and ask the locals, "what country am I in?" -And they said, "you're in Sweden", even though I was standing in Oslo... that makes the U.S. older than Norway.

Re. Norway:
You would have met som very ignorant locals then.
Otherwise you would be standing in Christiania, the answer woulf be "You're in Norway, which is part of the kingdom of Denmark", to which it was joined in a personal union in 1397 but has existed as a separate kingdom since the 9th century, I'd have to say you're mistaken.

 

[Ramius75]

We have more whores

which country ur from ???

 

[Mirc]

The Czech Republic is not older than 300 years. There's only a select few countries in Europe that are technically older than the U.S. What? "Well, we had people, buildings and stuff here"? Well, there have been, "people, buildings and stuff" over here for quite a while as well.

We're older than Belgium. Older than Germany. Older than Norway, Finland, Italy, and a whole host of other nations in eastern Europe, including the CZE.

In fact, someone should compile a list of nations that have remained intact politically as they currently stand, which are older than the USA. If your gov't type evolves on it's own (Britain, Russia, etc.) we'll count that. But, if you completely disappear off the map for a period of time, are conquered, 'spun off' from another nation, absorbed, annexed & reformed, etc., that 'resets' your date.

In other words, if I could go back at any point in time until 1776, and ask the locals, "what country am I in?" -And they said, "you're in Sweden", even though I was standing in Oslo... that makes the U.S. older than Norway. Nevermind WWII. -Just as one example. Russia is debatable. France... hmmm, same type of massive revolution post-1776, plus their whole nation was stolen out from under them in 1940.

Ireland - wasn't there at all politically during the Victorian era. Part of the UK. Swizterland, the UK, Spain (revolt/civil war/gov't didn't survive), Portugal - are the only ones I can think of in the west (major nations, anway). In the east... Russia's always basically been there, through one revolultion or another. Greece - hmm, WWII. Off the top of my head, all the other guys in the east have been part of empires, conquered by someone else, etc.

So, I see your statement as wrong.

That would still make it "younger" than Romania!

 

[Darkness]

Why the Netherlands is better than the United States

Politics
- Our Prime Minister may look like Harry Potter, but at least he has a brain and he's using it, which is more than I can say for Bush...
- We do not have the two-party system that the US employs...
- Here the guy that gets the most votes during the election actually wins...
- Our policy for dealing with other nations is more diverse than the two word policy that the US uses (threaten and invade)...

Social issues
- Our educational system is not for free, but at least it does not exclude poor people by definition...
- We don't have any silly gun laws from two hundred years ago...
- Euthanasia and Abortion are legal...
- Obesity does not (yet) rule the view of the streets...

Sports
- Football is actually known by the name that almost the entire world uses to decribe the game...
- No commercial breaks holding up play every five minutes...
- (Almost) No baseball on TV...

All just my opinion of course. Feel free to bash it any way you like...