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What qualities do you enjoy about Americans?

Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:42 pm
Posted by jlovel7
NOT Louisiana
Member since Aug 2014
24261 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:42 pm
I enjoy that we've only ever seemed to rise out of the tragedies we've experienced stronger as a people than before. I also enjoy how much we enjoy being individuals and expressing it seemingly more than any other culture in the world.



Also I don't think I've ever seen a Euro take down an entire bucket of Popeyes chicken or an entire stack of pancakes without even thinking about it.
This post was edited on 3/26/20 at 3:26 pm
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
56774 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:43 pm to
Optimism
Skepticism
Extroversion
Posted by Booyow
Member since Mar 2010
4194 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:43 pm to
French fries
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
23562 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:43 pm to
Racism.
Posted by noonan
Nassau Bay, TX
Member since Aug 2005
37017 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:44 pm to
Usually the booty.
Posted by HT713
Galations 4:16
Member since Jan 2011
10028 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:44 pm to
being able to go 6 figs into debt because you caught cancer
Posted by jlovel7
NOT Louisiana
Member since Aug 2014
24261 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:44 pm to
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Optimism
Skepticism
Extroversion




Nailed it.
Posted by PeteRose
Hall of Fame
Member since Aug 2014
18316 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:44 pm to
capitalism + enormous natural resources = unlimited opportunities
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
87748 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:44 pm to
I like how we talk shite to everyone else whether we're entitled to or not

And I particularly like how they just have to take it for the most part
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
74729 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:45 pm to
innovation

work ethic

friendly nature, even to people we have just met.

Posted by Master of Sinanju
Member since Feb 2012
12229 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:46 pm to
The sports.
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
56774 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:48 pm to
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friendly nature, even to people we have just met.



Outside of the Mediterranean (and I still think we have them beat), there are no friendlier people on the planet than Americans.

Our "xenophobia" is generalized, not individualized. We are so much more likely to befriend and socialize with a complete stranger, regardless of origin, than anyone else. We like to swing our American dick and show how much fun we have.
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
57555 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:58 pm to
How fat most of them are.
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
135363 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:59 pm to
quote:

What qualities do you enjoy about Americans?
See my sig quote...
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
57555 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 3:00 pm to
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being able to go 6 figs into debt because you caught cancer

I know a lot of people who have had cancer, and it hardly cost them anything. Oh wait, you must be talking about the shiftless ones. We call them democrats.
Posted by beauchristopher
Member since Jan 2008
74135 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 3:04 pm to
The China vloggers Laowhy and Winston who recently moved to the US said how people in the USA are so willing to help out strangers unlike other countries.

That does make me proud.
Posted by HT713
Galations 4:16
Member since Jan 2011
10028 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 3:04 pm to
quote:

I know a lot of people who have had cancer, and it hardly cost them anything.


wow cool. this anecdotal story is definitely better and more conclusive than any hard statistics
This post was edited on 3/26/20 at 3:05 pm
Posted by Coon
La 56 Southbound
Member since Feb 2005
18579 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 3:04 pm to
Our exceptionalism. We’re fricking exceptional!
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
56774 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 3:05 pm to
quote:

The China vloggers Laowhy and Winston who recently moved to the US said how people in the USA are so willing to help out strangers unlike other countries.



I wonder how much of this, and our extroversion, is the result of being a frontier country for so long. You have to rely on your neighbors a lot more in that kind of situation as opposed to an established civilization.
Posted by RonFNSwanson
1739 mi from the University of LSU
Member since Mar 2012
24377 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 3:23 pm to
quote:

that we've only ever seem to rise out of the tragedies we've experienced stronger as a people than before.


I really enjoy our great command of the English language
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