Is there anything that your country gave to the rest of the world?

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I'm not sure how serious I want to be here, so I'll go with America has given the world McDonald's, Google and Youtube. I'll let you decide how much of a gift they really are!

Christopher Nock

Well, it's fairly serious insofar as some countries make very serious claims. You might have said "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". Then I would have known you were joking!

Christopher NOCK

Good point! I could have gone with an unnatural sense of superiority. But that might not have been invented by us....

Christopher Nock and now I think you've stumbled upon the answer to your other question! The hatred must be due to an intense feeling of jealousy of the natural superiority...

There are, of course, many serious claims to make. Claims to medicine, to philosophy, mathematics, physics, astronomy, poetry, history, etc etc....

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