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This thread dovetails with one I want to start, What do other countries do better than the U.S.? I've been studying Germany, Japan and France for travel plans. Germany's out, Oktoberfest is cancelled.
Anyway, some nuggets: in Japan, kids clean their classroom and help serve lunch. All kids. In France, it's illegal for kids to have cell phones in school. In China, they just passed a 3 hour limit per day for video games. Germany has free university. Our tax rates aren't really all that low given the level of services we are provided.
Honestly the more I learn about other countries, the more the U.S. sucks balls in comparison. They have their issues too, it just seems that we have squandered so much Exceptionalism, we have become more of a hick backwater where everyone yells FREEDOM and has no concept of RESPONSIBILITY.
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