No one has mentioned my beloved
Canada 
.
If anything, I think there's more overlap between Europe/Canada than there is between Europe/the United States especially in terms of priorities and values.
Let's look at the following:
- Canada is far more multilingual (and is such by design). The
mother tongues of Canadians rank 59.7% English, 23.2% French, 17.1% Other (predominantly first generation immigrants). Canadians generally learn both official languages in school.
- Canada has a parliamentary system. Forget the country changing hands from one party to a second
, there's no 2 party dictatorship here
!
- Canada (politically) is far more liberal. Even now, with the conservatives in a minority government (gaining enough votes largely because of a scandal in the Liberal party), they have only 36.2% of the popular vote. This means that 63.8% of people in Canada feel better represented by the Liberal, Bloc, NDP and Green parties, all of which are further to the left than the Conservatives.
- Canada, like Europe ensures universal health care for every citizen (how can Americans tolerate almost 50 million citizens being uninsured, especially almost 10 million children?)
- Canada is world renowned for its education system and we don't see the urban/sub-urban or public/private divides witnessed in the United States. It consistently ranks very high in international studies such as PISA
- Canada has much larger subsidies for post secondary (University) education. Furthermore, in some provinces, such as Quebec, there are almost no out of pocket costs for tuition.
- Canada offers its citizens much more in terms of social programs and economic protection.
- Canada has a much lower crime rate, particularly when it comes to gun crimes. You won't find metal detectors in Canadian schools, museums, etc. Our parliament buildings are not fenced off and much more accessible. For example "The current US murder rate is 2.5 times that of Canada per capita" - Wikipedia.
- Canada is more open to immigration and refugees. Compared to the United States, we accept 2 times the number of immigrants (per capita) and 4 times as many refugees!
In short, I love Canada
! I'm not trying to put down the US here, I'm just trying to get the Canadian view point across, as Canadians generally identify more strongly with Europe than Americans do and they are more conscious of themselves as "Citizens of the World" rather than "Citizens of America."
Yeah, it is the most common second language, but this is everywhere around the world.
