Americans of Reddit, what's something that America gets shit for that is actually completely reasonable in context?

Oh look, it's 'that' thread again.

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Number 48, Ignore the criminals, and check out our crime rate.

Our crime rate. Remove the 5 most violent cities in America and our crime rate is insanely low.

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Number 66, You'll be a fan of semi-automatic ballistics, once you see my selectively edited gun violence statistics.

Our gun death rate is actually really low when you subtract suicides. In context, the odds of dying via gun violence are extremely low, lower than the chances of slipping and falling in the shower

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Number 78, You may think America is lawless, but my logic here is flawless

My point was If you aren't involved in serous crime and if your spouse isn't violent, your odds of being murdered are extremely low.

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Number 32, Well buckle my shoe, it's Muh Military Subsidises You

Our military allows our international allies to not spend as much on their militaries, thus they have more money to spend on progressive domestic programs.

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Number 76, What a nice day, but as a sheltered white guy, let me just say:

America is the most racially acceptive country in the world. Everyone else that has more than one race or ethnic group in it in anywhere close to a similar ratio, one is usually trying to kill the other. No one has more ethnic groups living under one roof than we do, and we get along pretty well for the most part.

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Number 41, It's hypocritical to say you can't abide a little spot of genocide.

Killing the natives

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Number 44, Use a tired cliche?.. don't think I won't, America is dammed if we do, dammed if we don't.

America is bad for interfering in other countries unless we don't interfere in which case America is bad for not preventing tragedy

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Don't say the US shouldn't interfere with x y or z when you cry and moan when the US takes that advice.
The US Navy helps massively make the oceans safer.
It really is not surprising how used to spending so much on our military we have gotten, because we fucking have to and get shamed if we don't interfere and scare Russia and china

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Number 83, Is it not monotonous, to constantly yell homogeneous!

Many Europeans and people from other countries constantly point to the US as racist or not being able to handle race problems well. Whether you think that's true or not, Europe is incredibly homogeneous. We have to deal with many different types of people in greater numbers living in one country: about 40% of the US is non white. Compare that to 13% in England, 15% in France and 8% of China are minorities. So when everyone is of the same race of course you will have less problems with race.

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Number 29, You're disdain for American nationalism has no basis, you must be one of those filthy Japanese racists.

For a real controversial answer: American Nationalism.

Nationalism in America is tied to an ideal, not any race or culture.I can move to Japan, but because I'm white I'll never be considered Japanese. This also applies all throughout Europe.

Then you look at the US: Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of our greatest Americans. A goddamn Austrian who half the country can barely understand him when he talks.

There aren't a lot of countries were nationalism can be inclusive like that. Just go to any thread of people celebrating getting citizenship.

In a similar vein: the pledge of allegiance. The under God part should be taken out, but otherwise? We don't swear to the President, or Congress, or the military, or some great historical figure. We swear to an ideal, and the symbol of upholding the idea at any cost.

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Number 4, knock at the door, it's bullshit at four.

If I hear one more European consider themselves an international traveler because they took a train from Spain to France and then lecture Americans on how they don't travel enough, I am going to lose it.

The culture difference between New York City and rural appalachia is probably greater than the cultural difference between Spain and France. .

Europeans know the culture of other European countries, because they're right there and easy to travel to. In the US, we know the cultures of other states. I'm from Minnesota, but understand the cultures of Texas and California reasonably well. And to say that American culture is one culture is silly. Our country to more comparable to all of Europe than it is to any one European country.

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Man not even all of the US is the same. The cultures in the North east couldn't be more different than the cultures in the south or mid west

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Even though we are one country we are really like 8 countries (I believe I read somewhere). Basically what this means is that not only do we have the beautiful terrain and whatnot but we have several different cultures and even dialects. Anybody that had been to Detroit, California and Savannah can tell you that you don't have to leave the country to be immersed in cultures that are not your own.

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the difference between Wyoming and Massachusetts would be much greater than that between Porto and Berlin.

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America is multicultural. No need to leave the country to broaden your world view.

I could go on and on with examples of this ignorant shit...

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Number 15, It's not making up lies to say all the worlds medicine is what we subsidise.

Our prescription prices. Americans pay the max and the rest of the world benefits by getting lower cost medicine. If Americans weren't subsidizing their costs, medicines would cost a whole lot more for the rest of the world.

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This also applies to things like drug costs. If you pick something America spends a lot on that no other countries do, there's a good chance it's because we're footing the bill for them.

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The US literally develops something like 85% of all drugs bc other countries just flat out won't/can't do it.
Then these other countries have the luxury of price fixing drugs so the drug companies have to sell to them cheap then make up the money selling them full price to the Americans.
Then the other countries act arrogant for having cheap drugs they buy from us and can't develop themselves.

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Also, America subsidizes other nation's low drug prices: http://www.ibtimes.com/how-us-subsidizes-cheap-drugs-europe-2112662
If America were to adopt a French-style or UK-style or Canada-style health care system with price controls on drugs, you can imagine that either many drug companies would go out of business or stop creating new drugs, or else overall price levels in all nations would have to be negotiated upward. High American drug prices are kind of like a pressure release valve for drug prices in other countries (you're welcome, btw).

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Drug prices. From what I understand, part of why Americans pay so much for medicine is because the companies developing them need to recoup the costs and no one else is paying for them.

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Number 62, we are considerably less racist than you. [you fucking racist Koreans]

I feel like it's mostly the Amercians calling Americans racist. In reality we are the least racist country in the world as we are made up of so many races. We have gone through a lot of racism and emerged on the other end condemning racism.
Other countries are made up primarily of one race. They dont see racism in their countries because only tiny minorities experience it. Some countries like Korea are super racist on the norm but because there are barely any other races there are no huge racial clashes that bring the issues up to the surface like the United States. People in the US are used to pointing out and shouting "racism!" here and there because it is societally unacceptable and we believe each instance needs to be brought to attention. So really we are, as a country, the least racist at this point in time.

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Number 82, Back to back World Champs, where's our thanks?

Being the "World Police" Sure we've made plenty of mistakes. But we didn't ask to get drawn into two world wars. Someone had to clean up that mess and keep things in check. We were the only ones left with the money and military power to do it. Look at us now, still stuck in that role.

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Number 38, Still fighting all of Europe's wars, getting no applause.

Also important to note that the US overshooting it's 2% mandate is what allows Europe to cheap out on their defense. We subsidize European defense, and get shit on by Europeans for it.

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Number 13, To Euro-smugs we take great exceptions, these are all clearly just false Mis-conceptions.

Well warmongers instead of peacekeepers, loud instead of enthusiastic, fat instead of big boned, insanely retarded president instead of business visionary, nationalists instead of patriots, extremely violent instead of free...There's a few common misconceptions.

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Right that's all I can be arsed doing, there is an absolute shit load of SAS in that thread.

As you can see, since the last one of these I made, I used an online rhyming dictionary to do this one.