positive facts USA
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- pascii
hello NT
i need some sources with positive facts about the usa. this is for a project with (dgv)
i would be very happy if you could hold the americabashing out of this thread. NT is a fine source because people from everywhere come together, and i don't want this thread to be deleted. thanks for helping a brother out!
// pasci
- Spix0
the women are easy...
- kelpie0
plenty of great tunes, that they've never seemed to mind us thieving...
- paraselene0
what kind of stuff do you want to know, pascii? like political stuff? suffrage? or geothermal and topographical diversity?
- pascii0
in my project, I would like to disprove or occupy the most well-known prejudices about the USA, to give a chance for a new and differentiated view about the USA. political as well as social. for example, the usa spends 400 billion of dollars for it's army. this is a lot of money. but compared to the money that circulates inside americas boundaries (BIP) it's more than average. even the swiss spend more money on their arms.
- not_report0
I'm not sure the US military budget would be a good example though. 400 billion is still more than 50% of the of the world's total military budget...
But NYC is the best place in the world!
- jamble0
The Swiss spend more on arms than the US?! I can only assume I've misread that in some way?
Good things about America?
I enjoy watching Chevvy Chase films
I am looking forward to seeing some awesome scenery when I go to Charleston in May
- honest0
i just realised that CIA link may be a little bias. I mean hey, who really trusts the CIA anyway?
- winter0
maglite flashlights is a good thing.
- determinedmoth0
Biscuits & Gravy is THE finest breakfast in the west.
- kelpie0
it's staggeringly huge and does hugeness better than anybody ever has.
- winter0
american literature is good.
- paraselene0
it's brilliant. in almost every fucking way. as a political entity it should be tranquilized, dismantled and put into a zoo, but apart from that i can't find a single fault with the lovely fucker.
- KuzIV0
US spends only 3% (2003 avg) of its GDP on defence, behind Russia, Taiwan, Saudis, Turkey, Israel, Greece, Congo, Myanmar, Syria, Singapore, North Korea, Pakistan, Kuwait, Columbia, Angola, Croatia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Cyprus... you get the picture.
- UndoUndo0
USA gave us the Beasties. My drive home wouldn't be the same without them.
- paraselene0
don't forget inspector gadget!
- clerk0
usa invented pop culture
- paraselene0
oops okay maybe not:
"The first 65, 22 1/2 minute episodes were written, designed, storyboarded, and voiced-recorded in Canada at Nelvana Animation Studio, while being directed (long distance) by a French director. These episodes were animated in Tokyo, Japan by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, and (a few of the episodes) in Taiwan, before being finished in post production by the same Canadian studio Nelvana that did preproduction, and broadcast in the USA in September, 1983."
- kelpie0
The Dude.
(need I say any more?)