Not to mention CO2
Incorrect, China has passed the USA as of last year. Damn you China! 
They just can’t catch them in other countries. That is what all of our vast jails are for.
A variant on the OP’s question: in the US news media, there will often be stories about how the something in the United States is done “wrong”, inefficiently or ineffectively, while in Europe they do the same thing “right”. The most recent example: The United States is facing disaster with the bailout of so many financial institutions, but years ago Sweden did it right. (More often than not, the countries citied as being part of the Brotherhood of the Right Way, to borrow one of Ed Zotti’s terms, are Scandinavian and Northern European: “United States blah blah blah FAIL, Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Finland/Netherlands blah blah blah TEH WIN”)
I’d like to know if there’s ever been a story in the mainstream European press about how something is done wrong in Europe, but it’s done right in the United States. (Please spare me the comments about how the US is best at invading other countries, income inequity, electing a special needs adult for president, urban sprawl, and so on.) The only thing I can think of are stories around the time of the suburban Paris riots, citing the success Muslim immigrants have had with integrating into mainstream American society, as compared to their peers in Europe; American Muslims live in middle-class suburbs and are generally successful despite some post-9-11 bigotry, while those in Europe are packed in high-rise slums and have little hope of escape.
Ha ha! That’s a good one! Now pull another one!
No, that is generally true. He have to know the situation in France to know what elmwood is talking about. They get housed in housing projects just like blacks in the U.S. did in the 1960’s and 70’s. The results are the same and the amount of vandalism and crime they commit on most nights is staggering in France. It is a very bad plan and the U.S. does it better now.
Where can one find these Muslims who sing the praises of America? I thought they had all been sent to Guantanamo or had fled the country after 9/11.
Lawyers and stupid litigations.
At a guess
I believe we do sadly have these covered. At least Lawyers per capita.
Sure, all the time. Why not? Frequent topics include high-end research, elite education, number of patents, major successful startups…
Since when and by what count do you skip Russia as the biggest country? Place 2: Canada, Place 3: China. (Counting square area). Cite
If you mean movies, Bollywood has overtaken Hollywood in terms of number of movies produced annually several years ago.
I highly doubt that you have the best. 37 out of 100 sounds impressive, but how many universities do you have total in the US = how high is the percentage? And now please compare the other countries in percentages. Plus, how many Americans are college-educated compared to other countries? Because I thought in the PISA tests the USA always limped in fairly late.
The US still leads in Nobel Prize winners (270 to 101 for the UK at No. 2). You can argue that this is due to previous years, but I think the US generally does pretty well, even in recent years.
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Nobel prizes are awarded years after the discovery. How many of those were made 10 or 20 years ago? And how many of current discoveries have been made by imported scientists (Indians and other Asians?)
If I were dying, I would not want to deal with an US hospital! Now, in some research areas, an US hospital or institute might be leading; in others, an European one. I’m sure that varies from one specialized disease/inventive technique to the other. We certainly don’t routinely fly to the US for advanced treatment since we can get it here much easier.
That’s a very different take considering the usual troubles I hear on how it’s impossible to get anywhere without a car because there’s no public transport, and how crowded and delayed your flights are.
Yes, Halliburton is certainly a benefit to the USA. You can keep that kind of company, thanks. As for energy generally, both Germany and Japan are currently leading in solar cells research and manufacture. Due to NASA (which originally developed them for space) the US used to be leading in that area, until it lost interest in the 80s.
How much of that is because of your excellent Hollywood propaganda, where people think in America, everybody can get rich (the gold is lying on the street as people thought during the gold rush?)
I don’t know where you get this. The power of the EU is growing stronger because the inner market is opening new avenues, despite the strain of trying to integrate the new members - stamping out corruption, aiding their economy to current standard and teach them what democracy really means after years of communism. The only bad developments in Europe are that too many American influences toward short-term thinking, personal greed and enrichment and libertarian abandoingn of responsibility are gaining hold.
he’s probably referring to places like detroit and chicago that have large and long settled arab and muslim populations that seem pretty happy here.
I agree with your general sentiment, but you’re 10 to 20 years to late. The unskilled jobs have been outsourced to Asia 20 years ago, with cheap manufacture. The skilled jobs were outsourced during the 90s outsourcing hype - a lot of IT guys and similarly highly trained and skilled people lost jobs when everything went to India - where people are also highyl trained, speak English, but work for less. You no longer have skills to offer - the Indians who went to the US to study there because you had good universities 20 years ago now can study in Bombay and Delhi and so on, and earn money at home.
Once the US can no longer afford to buy foreign knowledge, and since you stopped growing your own (esp. with the high fees for universities) you will be left behind.
Even if only 10% of Indians and/or Chinese can afford to study, that’s 10% of 1 billion / 1.3 billion. You only have less than 300 million people. You already have lost the race.
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That’s certainly news to me, and contradicts pretty much everything I’ve read and heard about the US college system. I do know that there are scholarships for athletes (which is already hard to grasp for me - what has an institute of higher learning like a college/university got to do with sports, unless it’s a specialized sport school?), and that the scholar requirements for them are … lower than usual.
I also know that getting into a “good” college like Yale or Harvard is helped if your Daddy is an old boy and/or if there’s enough money to even out your scores (like shrub). So how does this make the best educational system? Or do dumb kids go into the college, and smart kids leave? How hard is it to get a diploma - do you simply have to attend courses for four years, and then you get a handshake, or do you need good grades? Because I’ve heard too many stories of people passing despite knowing little, which isn’t what I call a good education system.
Made in China and Taiwan, of course. And the best by what measure - range of choices? cheap price? Or quality and longetivity? Because I can believe nr. 2, but I doubt nr. 3.
But that’s not debunking, that’s redefining the measure. If you measure number of movies produced, Bollywood leads. If you measure revenue made, Hollywood (yet) leads. (For how long, we’ll see).