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The national parks? I'd like to visit one.

Using the period as a decimal separator rather than the comma

Content. Without it there wouldn't be an abundance of free learning material. I'm already feeling the pain of trying to find any decent lesson about my interests after Russian government blocked YouTube.

As many have said, our National Parks are incredible, and even outside of them most of the western US is pretty awe-inspiring. I live in a place where, within an hour or two, I can go to desert badlands, alpine forests, coastal tide pools, and even skiing resorts for decent chunks of the year. I was recently up at 11k ft altitude in the Sierras and at -250 ft in Death Valley a few hours apart. The US is HUGE and big parts of it are still very wild. It's something worth fighting to preserve.

Edit: Also we can't read, I am American. Look, I didn't say the education system was good.

The national parks. I visited Yosemite Valley two years ago and it was amazing. We don't have acces to nature in this scale in central europe.

No matter how bad it gets, there is always you to show it could be worse.

Mexican food

Dolly Parton

High quality and rugged leather goods. PNW boots, deer/elkskin gloves, belts, wallets and so on.

No matter how much you disagree with someone, there is always a possibility to shoot them in their face

The influence into rock music in general is nice and one of the only reasons why I'd like to visit the states, e. g. Seattle, Nashville, Chicago and so on.

The First Amendment.

• Cultural influence: music, cinema, social movements of the 1960s and 70s
• Beautiful nature
• Agility in business environments (although I might have a limited sample)
• not without criticism but I think NATO is generally a positive thing
• Food (no not junk food, there's several fascinating regional cuisines)

The landscape.

Movies/TV Show.

Sure, with the 75 different steaming services all trying to produce content the majority is horseshit, but even if just around 15% is decent, that's still more decent content than the output of entire other country's film industries.

The Entertainment. You have really good movies, tv series, music, comedy.

Cars, probably a controversial one, but we don't really have "muscle" cars like the firebird and mustang in the UK, and I've always been a little fascinated by them.

Without the American innovation of deep frying a wrapped dough something within another wrapped dough something and serving it in a bucket, I don't think civilization would be on the positive path it is on right now.

The 2 times turn limit for presidents.

Your individualism. Of course I'm aware of the huge downsides, but my understanding is that personal freedom has been a vanishing rare thing in human history. As I see it, some very odd circumstances (puritans and the frontier) generated the USA, which morphed into something even weirder still: a libertarian superpower. Which then, in extremis, saved the rest of us from authoritarianism of both right and left. Probably temporarily. I predict that after it all collapses, and with better hindsight, we'll appreciate the USA more than we do today.

Whatever we did during the campaign to get kids to stop smoking cigarettes managed to work wonders. Even counting vape, the nicotine users numbers are way down. There are other countries with legal weed who still have more tobacco smokers than us too so I think its more than just the availability of weed, although that clearly helped a lot.

IDK to be honest... media I guess, most of my favorite movies are from the US.

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Never been, but american culture. Music, film, food. Americans seem to be really good at small talk and usually pleasant to meet when I'm on holidays.

It’s the entertainment center of the world. Shows, concerts, festivals, and all the popular entertainment events happen here. I wouldn’t have been able to see my favorite artists/bands in person back in my home country.

The museums