Why do Americans claim the U.S. is the best country?

[MC_Goatcheese]

Hello

I am dutch, and i believe the U.S. has many strong points as well as weak points as do a lot of countries.
But Why is the U.S. the best country?

[civilwarbuff17]

The reason why we americans say we are the greatest contry is our belief that all men and wemon are created equally. Another thing is our democracy. No, it wasn't the first, but, it has started a wide spread demoacracy fever you could call it. Many nations have based thier constitutions of of ours. And, almost all democarcies have been destroyed in CW. Ours did not but actually strenthend because of it. We have our faults to be sure, but, everyone has faults. I hope this was any help.

[charge_of_glory]

We also have large egos lol.

[civilwarbuff17]

Lol! How true. I don't really care as long as I have my history books.

[MC_Goatcheese]

Hi
The ego part is perhaps true.(definetely but dont want to offend you)
But have you ever considered, that there are a lot of countries who hold similar believes about equality, and that the U.S. had it's examples to build upon.
Also I don't mind patriottism but it seems sometimes that because f this patriotism americans ignore a lot of other problems like environment, poverty, racism and focuses to much on the wealth aspect(the amassing more of it) of the country.

And also when the united states was created it was suposedly based on freedom etc. but you slaughtered the native americans.

Furthermore but this is perhaps to farfetched, I believe man americans are christians(many are athiest as well I know) And how do gunlaws and wars and deathpenalty etc. exist while their religion gives them a very simple set of commandemants(wrong spelling sorry) that includes thou shalt not kill?

[civilwarbuff17]

As I said, we have our things we are not to proud of. But, if you look back to the landing of Plymouth and do some serious study of it, there is an account of the Indians attacking several men that had gone to scout the land. Indians fired first, not us.

[MC_Goatcheese]

Aha, but you could argue that it was their land.
And I would.

[charge_of_glory]

Don't forget though that even if our gov't isn't doing something now, it probably will be in the future b/c our gov't changes periodically and is essentially run by the people. As time goes one, we eventually get to the issues we've ignored in the past. That's another great thing about democracy.

As for the Native Americans, that's in our past. No country is perfect and all have made mistakes when they were growing.

There is no "best" country in the world. We all have our problems and we all have some level of corruption. Again, I think it's all about ego and national pride.

[chaos]

i dont know i dont think us and i am from there i thinl paris is :) its is because we won sow many wars also nukes and atom boms :(

[mjrpayne]

It may sound arrogant but is not intended to be. I find it difficult sometimes to reconcile the slaughter of the Native Americans and for sure slavery in this country but that is all history. Which is why we should be on a site like this one. [b]Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."George Santayana (1863-1952)

[Animelover921]

Hello

I am dutch, and i believe the U.S. has many strong points as well as weak points as do a lot of countries.
But Why is the U.S. the best country?


We Americans claim we are the best because nobody ever wants to mess with us.
But i agree with you, we do have strong points as well as weak points.
Strong point-we fight hard at first but (weak point) after a while we just sorta get tired of the war and we dont fight as hard as when the war first started.
I dont see why we dont just nuke all of iraq and be done with them, and instead, we take pity on our enemies, and thats another weak point. Our soldiers are being tried for murdur when they atack a citizen of Iraq. When you go to war with another country, you dont take pity on them- you kill them all.
Ithink we are a great country and all, (hey, ive lived here all my life!) but we have more weak points than strong points, and i may be a girl, but im going to become president of the United States of America some day, and try to fix all our weak points- ilegal immegration, our war strategy, Americans in dept., etc. I may be 13, but i have some good ideas for our country.
-sorry if i got off topic! :(

[LindaEadesBlackburn]

Why do We feel our Country is the Best Country?

How sad it would be to live in a Country that you feel is not the best. I would say that we feel that way because of Pride and Love for our Country. If I did not feel that this was the best Country, I would seriously be looking to move to the one I did consider to be the best.

I am not saying this country does not have problems, but I love it warts and all.

[codysmith]

I love this country beacuse it has many weak spots in its southern border, and my five children and i have found a wonderful life in San Diego, where i work as a onion picker for $5 an hour. Although i dont have the documentation to get a real job, i feel this country, especially jorge bush, are accepting of my situation.

[MontyPython]

I know one of the main reasons that I love this nation is our history. We have gone through more in our nearly 250 years as a country that many nations have in their entire centuires of existence. We won our right to live in the free world, beat the greatest empire in the world at the time twice, expanded our lands "from sea to shining sea", united the nation after a bitter civil war where both sides had reasons to fight and faults, became the deciding factor in WW1 and showed the world in WW2 that we were not to be messed with. To me, that is something to be proud of, and thats just the military fact of it. I could go on about yankee ingenuity and our cultre but that would take too long, :D . And if anyone from other nations feels this blind pride that many Americans have is arrogance, im sorry. It's not. It is simply our patriotism for everything we have been through and the harships and victories we have experienced together as a nation. Despite issues like education problems in some regions, corruption, scandals, odd laws, and sometimes careless diplomacy, it is something every nation experiences, not just the US exclusively and we our doing our best to right our wrongs, improve the nation, and better the world.

[IrishmanMcDROZR]

The US is not the greatest Nation. We have many flaws and i think more people need to realize that. No offense.

[callum98]

americns are always boasting they are better than everyone else at fighting and are also saying they saved our ***** in the 1 and 2 world wars but as i recall they were late to start in both wars .

[Ekatjam]

It is not that we think that we are the best, but a national pride that has been formed by the whirlpool of immigrants and Native Americans. Many people do not understand the American way of thinking, It is based on many people of diverse backrounds who can put aside differences for a common good.
Even when these diverse groups have shown antipathy towards one another (North and South for instance) Americans have always been willing to reconcile.
Another factor is that Americans are the most giving people. A great example would be my uncle. Dallas Jamieson was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne division during WWII. On D-Day he jumped into France, not because of his disire to see Frenchmen free, but because it was the spirit of a great democracy to use our sons and daughters to help others.
I think that you might understand it better when you realize that on my uncle's second jump he was killed in the tiny village of Beek, just outside Nijmegen. Perhaps he was proud to liberate the Dutch people or perhaps he was fighting to get back to America to have a cold beer, whatever it was America showed its willingness to help others.
One last item. Our Constitution is one of the greatest blueprints for forming a goverment and granting us the right to tell our leaders to drop dead since 1787.

[gettysburg man]

duh! because we live in the united states