Since this is a real peaceful thread, I may add something:
I like America for its past showbiz.
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Danny Kaye, whoever: they all posessed such a great style that you might think it was reflecting how America was way back when. I also have fresh examples: I remember watching the first big Sept11 concert. It struck me how well the show was organized.
I may also say I don?t like the showbiz today - especially the music industry is in a bad state. Diamond, the variety of music - was that meant to be cynical (if I had heard that 20 years ago, ok... and btw, no one, neither Europe, has pushed the advancement of humanity... the advancement of medicine - oh yeah, bio weapons you mean)?
Anyway, I really like hamburgers. But only the real ones, you know, they serve them in real restaurants with salad bars and real milkshakes, not at McDonalds. I like Ketchup. Then, I like New York for its diversity.
Let?s see... what else makes America unique?
When I was a child, I loved Greyhound buses (around 25 years ago, when service was still in their vocabulary).
I love New Orleans, where music still has a place.
And a real car is an American car (ok, Ferraris and Maseratis also count, but compare an old Ford or Continental with one of those lil? japanese plastic surgery models).
So then, I like belle Michelle. And Prince. And loads of other Americans. All of that doesn?t make the U.S. a better dictatorship (or call it fake democracy), but I have to admit America also created some cool stuff.
Cheers there!