Almost as if America is often viewed as a backwards, regressive nation compared to the rest of the world

It's hilarious what people from inferior countries have to trick themselves into believing about the US to cope with their jealousy.

The US has about as much wealth as the 5 next wealthiest nations combined. The US is 1/20th of the earth's population but has over 1/3rd of the world's wealth.

Americans are the wealthiest people in the world on an individual basis as well.

The US has the top spot in the Better Life Index. Even people in the bottom 10% in the US have more wealth than the middle class in countries like France.

Americans have the highest secondary education completion and the 2nd highest university-level education attainment in the world.

American universities are the best in the world in EVERY field:

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences

Life and Agriculture Sciences

Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy

Social Science

The US is the most scientifically impactful nation in the world.

The US does 78% of global medical research, despite being only 5% of the earth's population and 20% of its economic output.

Eight of the top 10 medical advances in the past 20 years were developed or had roots in the U.S. The Nobel Prizes in medicine and physiology have been awarded to more Americans than to researchers in all other countries combined. Eight of the 10 top-selling drugs in the world were developed by U.S. companies.

The US has the most Nobel prizes in the world.

We live in the information age, which is founded almost entirely on an American inventions. To this day, the US dominates in information technology.

8 of the top 14 IT companies in the world are American. The rest are Asian, none are European.

8 of the top 10 software companies are American. Two are European.

Basically every technology you just used to post your stupid comment, on this American internet site, was invented in the US. That irony is probably lost on you because like most anti-Americans you're a bit deranged. Your world view and its anti-American component constitutes a mental disorder. You have to delude yourself, in a forceful peasant manner, in order to depict the US in unrealistically negative ways because the truth, that you're inferior to and dependent on the US in every way in reality, is something you're not mentally equipped to rationally deal with.

I hope you enjoy living in your obsolete nation while it declines into obscurity and irrelevance, and the only nationalistic joy you can have is to fecklessly and idiotically criticize the US for being "backwards and regressive" even though the US is literally the most advanced nation to ever exist in human history. Your understanding of the US is so far removed from reality that you might as well live on the moon, except your country has never been there, unlike the US.

Checkmate.