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Best Music ? Now or before ? I wouldn't really call Music those rap songs or Beyonce's songs or those songs that just talk about sex.
In the 80's almost all the New Wave bands were from the UK and Ireland.
I like much of the UK music such as Beatles, Led Zep, etc. but the US has a ton more variety with Rap, Country, Rock, Pop, etc. No country has the variety we have and it's due much to our diversity.
My personal favorite music is the 90's Alternative music and Grunge music such as Pearl Jam, 3rd eye Blind, Nirvana, etc. That is fantastic music.
#1 Largest Spanish-speaking country
#1 First country from the New World to deliver a pope #1 First country to have an elected female head of state and head of government in the Western hemisphere
#1 Tourist destination in South America
#1 Highest consumption of red meat in the world
#1 In basketball (according to ranking by International Basketball Federation)
Not sure about number one, but we're pretty good at understatement and self deprecation.
These are qualities not to be underestimated.
by their very definition, I think we should all pay little heed to these qualities...
I do believe that Enland has invaded more countries than any other country, all but 22. So you got that going for you...which is nice.
The countries never invaded by the British: Andorra Belarus Bolivia Burundi Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of Guatemala Ivory Coast Kyrgyzstan Liechtenstein Luxembourg Mali Marshall Islands Monaco Mongolia Paraguay Sao Tome and Principe Sweden Tajikistan Uzbekistan Vatican City
That's the point; "What is your country #1 at?" It's only my opinion.
U.S. developed sports was only part of the equation. I included sporting success as well. Also, you state that the world "couldn't care less about your sports" after excluding the two most popular U.S. developed sports in the world and completely dismissing baseball.
Get a grip, Finland! Nah. Keep talking. I'm, actually, not offended that you are proud of your Finnish culture and want to boast about your country's accomplishments.
Without the American invention of the airplane, nothing would have become of the jet engine.
Nature...or Sir Isaac Newton.
Great...but an American, Frank Canova, invented the smartphone.
Thanks for a good and rational answer.
Regarding sports, an average European, Asian or African doesn't even know the rules of baseball. Which indicates that your sport is limited just to the immediate sphere of influence of the USA.
As I said in another thread, my country is #1 in several things. But I don't boast, I just state the facts. And according to them, my country i damn good, even if we have our faults. The US is #1 in many things, but as I said, don't boast. It will only diminish the facts and the arrogance is something I can't accept. (Personal Opinion.)
And You're right. No airplane without aerodynamics or the combustion engine. One thing leads to another, and US based scientists have refined the original idea. And as I said, the US have refined some ideas that changed humanity, like refrigeration or traveling to the moon. But what is incorrect is, that the USA would have "invented" all these things. No, you just refined them with generous funding from the government.
It's easy to say that the US put the first person on the moon, and that would be the greatest achievment ever, but remember the who discovered the moon, and all the other planets. The heliosphere was dubious allready when the first colonists founded Roanoke.
My aim is not to play down the achievements USA have made, you've contributed a lot to modern society, and I could be jealous about it.
Regarding sports, an average European, Asian or African doesn't even know the rules of baseball. Which indicates that your sport is limited just to the immediate sphere of influence of the USA.
As I said in another thread, my country is #1 in several things. But I don't boast, I just state the facts. And according to them, my country i damn good, even if we have our faults. The US is #1 in many things, but as I said, don't boast. It will only diminish the facts and the arrogance is something I can't accept. (Personal Opinion.)
And You're right. No airplane without aerodynamics or the combustion engine. One thing leads to another, and US based scientists have refined the original idea. And as I said, the US have refined some ideas that changed humanity, like refrigeration or traveling to the moon. But what is incorrect is, that the USA would have "invented" all these things. No, you just refined them with generous funding from the government.
It's easy to say that the US put the first person on the moon, and that would be the greatest achievment ever, but remember the who discovered the moon, and all the other planets. The heliosphere was dubious allready when the first colonists founded Roanoke.
My aim is not to play down the achievements USA have made, you've contributed a lot to modern society, and I could be jealous about it.
Thanks for the response. I didn't mean to offend. I really didn't.
Furthermore, it's called the Olympic National Forest. Secondly, 'rainforest' is one word, not two.
It is Olympic National Park, three words, all capitalized. It's in the state of Washington. Canada has almost identical landforms, sprawling over about 100 times as much area, and doesn't even bother calling it a park.
There is only one thing in which the USA truly deserves genuine accolades as world class. The USA invented and continues to embrace Baseball, the most perfect human function ever devised in equilibrium with the laws of mathematics and the universe. It is so finely tuned and perfectly balanced that the rules have never needed to be changed. (Even though it is necessary now to ikeep it alive by importing playing talent from other countries.)
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