10 things, (according to CNN) the US does better than anywhere else. THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON ANY OTHER COUTNRIES JUST AN INTERESTING TAKE ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEM. With so much US bashing ( a lot coming from us I might add) there are a few things I really like about this country. 1: Effusive greetings - Ahoy! Aloha! Hey! Hola! Howdy! Hiya! Ho there! Well, look who it is! Whats happenin?! Sup! Yo! Hello! “Welcome to Walmart!” Want to go somewhere without being greeted? Good luck… 2: Road Trips – This is ‘Murica we LOVE our CAURS! With roadside oddities like Carhenge in Nebraska and the worlds largest ball of paint in Indiana, along with infamous rest areas and national parks (more on those later) dotting Americas majestic roadscape at uniform intervals, youre never far from the next adventure. 3: Derbies (variety of)– Horse racing, roller, and demolition, there are a lot of derbies here. 4: Beer - Not to take shots at Germany, but theres only so much you can do with barley and hops. American brewers arent bound by purity restrictions on their craft, allowing them to push the pint glass with new additives, processes, styles and malt and hops strains moved through the largest number of breweries of any nation on earth. Whether its Portland, Oregons Hopworks, Grand Rapids, Michigans Founders, or Asheville, North Carolinas Wicked Weed breweries, in no country is beer more innovative. 5: Diversity - The U.S. is a microcosm of nearly every world culture, climate, landscape and category of wildlife. (And whatever doesnt occur naturally gets recreated at Disney.) 6: Canyons - Then theres Black Canyon of the Gunnison (Colorado), Palo Duro Canyon (Texas), Canyon de Chelly (Arizona), Sequioa and Kings Canyon (California), Waimea Canyon (Hawaii) and hundreds more to round out a list so deep and wide that it makes the U.S. the hands-down winner in this category even without mentioning the Grandest one of them all. 7: National Parks - Turns out its one of Americas great national treasures, a tradition extended to 400 more areas comprising more than 84 million acres of buttes, plateaus, rapids, coral reefs, caverns, badlands, volcanoes, glaciers, falls, fjords, swamplands, sandstone arches, mangroves, geysers, gift shops and excellent interpretive centers ranging from coast to coast. 8: Eating - Make all the fat jokes you want -- seriously, theyre hilarious -- but no other nation offers the portions and varieties of culinary experimentation found in the U.S. Theres nothing the home of super-sizing wont deep-fry, roll in bacon or drown with nacho cheese sauce, proving Americans eat like none other. 9: Sports - Most countries have a national sport. The U.S. has four. (OK, three; you can have hockey, Canada.) Baseball, football, basketball… Thats tough enough without NASCAR, golf and action sports like extreme death gliding and low-orbit cloudboarding or whatever else is nipping at soccers heels. 10: Moving Pictuers - From internationally beloved TV shows like Breaking Bad and The Daily Show to movies like Avatar and anything the Coen brothers do to viral videos like Harlem Shake, America is the worlds dramatic chipmunk.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:08:49 +0000
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