The United States is the most influential nation of all time.

Since you didn't follow the rules and mixed your round with an argument AND a rebuttal, I will go along with it just to not ruin the debate. You could have followed up on all my points if you didn't do this. 1) The League of Nations was pre-war America. America did not have the prestige and power that it gained after the war. And the United Nations? Created with the League of Nations as a predecessor, both an American idea regardless that America didn't join the League of Nations. 2) America may not have the rich history of art that other countries with a much longer existence have, but the United States and its art scene thrived with American Realism, Harlem Renassance art, and most importantly Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art (Andy Warhol).(1) American artists have buyers and collectors from all over the world. Warhol's go for millions. Also, every country's collectors buy foreign art so I fail to see your point. 3) I don't know if you're trying to just misquote me with the intention of gaining points by funny business, but I never said America is the sporting centre of the world. I said America is responsible for the commercialization of sports, and its massive success among the world. Some of our sports aren't popular in other countries, but the point is that games are televised, athletes are paid highly, and athletes are super famous and idolized. America changed sports from just being a leisurely game into a huge business, and a huge opportunity for people to make it big by excelling in a sport. I don't understand why individual sports really have anything to do with anything. Youre saying Britain popularized Cricket, Rugby, Soccer etc...the United States popularized basketball, baseball, extreme sports, American football, golf (whose more famous then Woods or Palmer) and MANY other minor sports that like any sport are popular is some regions in the world and unpopular in others. Now to answer your question, baseball is HUGELY popular. It is one of the most popular sports in the entire world and is a huge success throughout Canada, Mexico, the entire Central and South American continent and the Carribean, as well as Japan and China.(3) Why do you think so many of our baseball players are Latin American? Basketball is popular basically worldwide, and Football is gaining ground in popularity in Canada and parts of Europe (remember NFL Europe). Only reason it isn't more successful is there are too many similar sports already available. Now where is Cricket and especially Rugby popular besides former British colonies? 4) I fail to see my opponents point about bashing America continously. The success of the American system gave the risw to abolishing constitutional monarchy's. Once again, I never said America "created" democracy. America rebranded it and popularized the idea of freedom from religion, seperation of church and state, etc, something that most European countries did not offer. The U.S. Constitution provided the world its first formal blueprint for a modern democracy! The easygoing transfer of power between presidents was much easier and simpler then the violent French upheavels and the British corruption pre-reform(4). Then, you state that America is just a place full of a bunch of revolutions? Haha, care to elaborate? Besides the American Revolution, I can think of the Sexual Revolution, the Feminist Revolution and now the LGBT revolution, something that's going on everywhere and aren't violent. Is there a big part of American history I'm missing here, contender? 5) Germany was the first welfare state, all other European countries developed their policies around the same time (Great Depression) as America developed its new-deal social welfare policies. The reason America is more important is that our culture is what you see on TV, read about, and hear about worldwide. We helped pioneer social welfare in order to created the largest middle class the world had ever seen. American policies spread to Latin America and East Asia, because that was our sphere of influence. Modern Social security was an American development, created from the ideals that guilds held and performed and influenced by the English Poor Laws.(2) Creating something doesn't necessarily mean that you are the most influenial. The one who spreads it to others or pioneers is more influential. Example: Apple didn't create mp3 players, but it is undeniable that they are the most influential corporation in that regard. 6) I fail to see why largest growth or biggest empire means "most influential", and why that prevails over America's non-violent method of culture exporting. You failed to explain further on that. 7) It's funny you quote Whitehead since he moved to Massachusettes and died there. America in 300 years has produced as many amazing philosophers as many countries have done in double. John Winthrop, Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Paine, all the founding fathers, Josiah Royce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Fiske, Charles Sanders Pierce, Chauncey Wright, William James, John Dewey, George Santayana, Thomas Kuhn, W.V.O Quine, Ayn Rand, John Rawls. I won't respond to your America bashing because it has nothing to do with the debate and shows you have poor consuct. Once again everyone please notice that my opponent did not follow the rules. I await his rebuttal. (1) http://en.wikipedia.org... (2) http://www.ssa.gov... (3) http://en.wikipedia.org... (4) http://www.historyworld.net...