16 People on What Surprised Them About America

[GDS_Starfury]

'MURICA!!  FUCK YA!

[Centurion40]

I would agree

Yeah, totally.

Exhibit A: The Cronut.

[MetalDog]

A follow-up from Reddit, asking people what America does better than anyone else

http://www.businessinsider.com/things-america-does-best-2014-3

Some really good answers in there

There are ninteen different answers.  These are the two best:

14. The Military

"You guys have the most advanced military on the planet, and are willing to use it to protect other people as well as your own; be it against the NSDAP or modern terrorists. While many Europeans like to complain, the world is better for having America." - madwill101

"Military. I'm just sayin', if aliens invaded, America would put the world on it's back." - hammy831


19. Hope

"When other people ask me what I miss most about living in the USA I answer with all of the lesser ones above, the food, the TV, or the nature; but, I've never said: 'I miss being in a country which knows it is capable of greater things: that we will cure cancer and advance the sciences, that we will pursue corruption and combat poverty, that we will be the world's police to those who wish it harm and the world's shelter to those who have been harmed because that is our duty, that we will go back to the moon and then on to Mars, because our forefathers forged our greatness and our children compel us to utilize it."  - TheWanderingSuperman

[bayonetbrant]

There are ninteen different answers.

the sixteen in the thread title is a reference to the initial post about a different article

[MetalDog]

I understood that.  It's why I quoted your posting of the reddit follow up.  Which has nineteen :)