Thread: What do you like about the US?

Diversity. Even in the most homogeneous areas you can find Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Thai, Indian, Mexican, Italian and French cuisine. Sure, Argentina has notably better barbecue, pizza and ice-cream (and bakeries on par with san francisco) but even in the metropolitan Buenos Aires you won't find much else, and if you do it's a novelty. Furthermore, the women are generally much more attractive in Argentina, and they're all my type (thin, pretty brunettes, the occasional blonde) but in the US if you want an asian girl, latina girl, native girl or any other kind of flavor they're readily findable. That came of misogynistic, sorry.

There's also tons of diversity comparing different regions of the United States. In Argentina people are much more affectionate and I was a little rattled when I came back to the US and noticed how cold, distance and frankly homophobic the culture is (seriously, men are not allowed to hug and kiss on the cheek here, which I think is silly. If you don't have a boner it's not gay). Everyone also has much larger "personal space" bubbles here than in Argentina which I find unnecessary. However, while this is generally true, there's a lot of difference between, say, Boston and the rest of the country. In Boston, people josh complete strangers in a friendly way and speak their minds openly and honestly. I much prefer this attitude than, for example, Utah, where speaking your mind to a complete stranger is not even remotely encouraged. The diversity in California alone is ridiculous, in the county where I went to high school the entire west side of the county considered the rest of it a bunch of stupid yuppies and they considered the west side a bunch of worthless hippies.

I also like that I'm from the culture that controls Hollywood. While the international box office assures that only the most useless blockbuster trash will ever get made by major studios there's a rich plethora of comedy being made that I can actually laugh at because I'm from the culture making it all. The last foreign comedy I found funny was Death at a Funeral.

This may also be cultural, but I'm damned thankful for the indie music scene. I like how I can go to virtually any town over 30,000 people and find a few local bands that absolutely kick ass. One of Argentina's drawbacks is I did not care for their local taste in music and the clubs all played poppy dance music from like a decade ago.

The Mountains. I love camping and there's plenty of space to do it in. If I want, I can disappear into mountains so deep that I could avoid human contact for the rest of my life. I also love snowboarding.

The Beaches. 'Nough said.

The Basketball. Americans are really good at it, so it's actually entertaining to watch.

The Drugs. The War Against Drugs did one thing right, it literally flooded the entire country in nearly every type of drug you can imagine. Thanks to innocuous drugs like marijuana being illegal it's actually easier to get stuff like acid and DMT.

State and Federal separation: There is one thing I like about the US, and it's that states can go ahead and run themselves without waiting for congress to figure their shit out. Thanks to this, marijuana is currently recreationally legal in two states and they've had such success that next election cycle we're bound to see more. Yeah there's drawbacks, some of the laws that get passed in Utah and the Bible Belt are just plain frightening, but you can always move.