Amazing in a positive way .Since we have dopers from a lot of countries,I hope to get a good amount of response…
It is OK to post about a country where you have spent most of your life( than your own birth country).
It amazes me that **India **is holding together for 60 years, despite each state being a mini nation by itself,with vastly different cultures and food habits and whatnot ! Even more amazing when compared to former eastern bloc countries !
I am amazed by the extreme climate differences across the continental US. Add in Alaska and Hawaii and you get even more differences!
I love that I can visit mountains, deserts, plains, cold places, hot places, humid places, dry places…all without a passport!
The wildlife and the geology.
Let me expand: Wildlife - we got lions, elephants, rhinos, antelope, zebras, giraffes (Weird animals, you might have heard of them?) as well as whales & penguins. Also the world’s most diverse Floristic Kingdom.
Geology/Palaeontology-wise, we’ve got the Cradle of Mankind, Karroo fossils (Dicynodon, Moschops, Gorgonops and the likeVredefort, Bushveld Igneous complex, Barberton Greenstones - all kinds of rockhound fun.
That we have people from all over the world, often from warring nations, who get along with each other.
Also, the scenery.
America put a man on the freakin’ moon. We put 3 guys on top of a huge explosion that sent them hurtling at 15,000 mph towards a rock 250,000 miles away. We land, survive in a vacuum with extreme temperatures, explore and experiment, then return home. Incredible.
That still impresses and amazes the hell out of me.
(One of the coolest moments in my childhood was when our 5th grade science teacher brought in a moon rock from Apollo 15, complete with the nice sturdy NASA case. A rock 4.5 billion years old, older than even the simplest life on Earth, older than anything on Earth itself. My mind was blown, to say the least.)
Thanks to judicious use of flags several hundred years ago the global language today is English.
Obviously, the freedom.
We’re well respected, wherever we travel. We have health insurance, good roads, we’re peaceful and peacemakers.
We can see mountains, oceans, wilderness, big cities, all in one fell swoop.
My country is what others envy.
The isolation experienced by those living in the heart of Australia. But I love being alone and quiet at dusk in a place like the an offshoot of the road between Longreach and Winton here in Queensland. Absolutely amazing what you see and hear if you are very, very quiet and some way away from your ute or car.
**Antigua **is partly volcanic and partly coral in makeup.
The Frigate Bird Colony, in **Barbuda’**s Codrington Lagoon, is home to more than 170 bird species, including its namesake, the Magnificent Frigate Bird.
Well said. To that I’d add: Jazz. Baseball. Aircraft. Constitutional democracy.
Plus so many amazing people over the years: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, MLK, Susan B. Anthony, JFK, Cal Rodgers, the Wright Brothers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, George Patton, Barack Obama, etc. etc.
I’ve been fortunate to be an American my whole life.
The best quality that it has over others, IMHO, is it’s ability to change/adapt rather quickly. We’re perhaps the most fluid society ever. Getting stuck in the past is rather limiting.