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He just says the US is not the best country, not that it's the worst.  His posts obviously drip with derision, but it's his opinion.  I get the feeling he hasn't spent any or much time anywhere else with the people there.

In my experience, people are pretty much the same.

He just says the US is not the best country, not that it's the worst.  His posts obviously drip with derision, but it's his opinion.  I get the feeling he hasn't spent any or much time anywhere else with the people there.

It's more he says something that's entirely bombastic and leaves no room for nuance, and then when challenged retreats to "well you can't expect me to qualify my statements; you should know what I mean!" Like it's our fault for seeing what he says and assuming he means what he said.

In my experience, people are pretty much the same.

Agreed. Most people just want to live in safety, have economic opportunity, feel like they can raise a family and offer a future to their children. If a country can't offer that, the country has issues. But the people aren't the issue; their leaders are. The people are the same everywhere.

We can argue that America is or isn't the best country in the world. I don't think we can argue that Americans are any better or worse than anyone else in this world.

You all are missing the point, though.

Now we know, that Earth isn't even the best planet.  Probably a few dozen better places to live and raise that family.  Just gotta wait for Captain Kirk or Han Solo to transport us there.

Yeah, but it's a moot point. We've discussed how reticent countries in Europe or the Australia/New Zealand folks are to allow Americans to immigrate. You think those planets are going to take in Earthlings? What do we have to offer?

Elon Musk will do it for a price

We can argue that America is or isn't the best country in the world. I don't think we can argue that Americans are any better or worse than anyone else in this world.

When you visit another country, by and large you are experiencing the best of that country, the best most polite people and places etc.  It's not until you get en famile that you start to get a glimpse of other countries, I think, and that experience is rare.

Exactly.  Because America is the worst country, on the worst planet, in the galaxy.

Could be worse like also rooting for the Horns......or Browns.....or Indians

That is why traveling tends to engender peaceful relations.  One begins to focus on sameness and not differences.

They are basically the same.

Of course, the heads of state of three waring powers in 1914 were first cousins, so there is that.