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    I guess history and a sense of being part of an established culture.

    Do also want to point out though that Americans talk their country down on here. It’s a place of extremes but that diversity in theory means anyone could find their niche. They also have pretty much every biome you might want to live in from desert, to parks to icy tundra - I can see why you might not need a passport.

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    Just off the top of my head:

    State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.

    PM is a Russian asset, but still better than Trump.

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    I come from a third world country that is worse than the US in a lot of ways, but I don’t have to worry about getting shot by a rando with a gun.

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    A president cant win without getting majority of votes. If there is no one with over 50% of the votes, a second round happens between the top 2

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    Parliamentary democracy with proportional representation, affordable healthcare, affordable education, great roads and infrastructure with lots of cycling lanes, shops near homes, better labour laws, more vacation days, maternity leave, social safety net, less gun violence, police trained in de-escalation, affordable phone and internet plans, more affordable healthy food options, more egalitarian culture, none of those pesky hills or mountains, surrounded by countries that make good beer.

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    Healthcare, a sane leader who cares about his country, cheaper tuition, more than two parties, the metric system, less urban sprawl (though it’s still not great here), far less guns

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    Public healthcare
    Super annuation
    Preferential & compulsory voting
    No tipping culture
    Consumer protection laws
    Gun control laws
    Weather service isnt privitised
    Wide variety of multicultural foods
    Farming sector isnt controlled by a few companies (ie chickens)/subsidy schemes (looking at you corn)
    Organised religion has less participation and dropping steadily
    Adoption of rooftop solar systems

    Also significantly less instances of tech billionares, team factional politics, media oligarchs & donald trumps.

    There are a lot of areas we could do better and are ashamed of though.

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    Strike that. Let’s try “What can America learn from your country to become a better nation?”

    The value of human life and life in general.

    If a foreigner comes to my country and suffers any ailment or accident, they receive treatment because life is understood as an absolute value. This implies that paying taxes goes towards creating a safety net that nobody really wants to rely on but is thankful to have when misfortunes happens.

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      If the spirit of thankfulness was stronger in this country (US) than the spirit of keeping good things from “those who don’t deserve it”, we wouldn’t be dealing with the downfall we’re experiencing now.

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    If you get cancer, you can have access to chemotherapy for free. And that’s basically it

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    We don’t think we’re the only and best in the world. We are interested in the culture of our neighbours. And we respect them.