Britain is better than America

I fully accept. America is greater then Britain for 8 simple reasons. Lets first clarify that Britain is also the UK. And I will be referring to the UK, as being more professional. Refutation to Round 1: Sure most American people originated from the UK but people already lived in America before the Brits colonized America. America was already a free county before the Brits came. The Brits just wanted to have a free place to worship God. (Which I totally respect) My point is America did not originate from the Brits the Brits helped speed up the process of colonization. I had a British roommate once who would vehemently declare that the UK was better than America via shouting matches and passive aggressive social media posts. It was awesome. She would say hilarious things like, "We Brits swear better!" and "You don"t even have your own Queen!" But then, thanks to our consistent debates, I managed to compile a fantastic case study of things America does in fact do much better than our counterparts across the Atlantic. Which is great because there"s a sort of friendly competition that goes on between the US and the UK, presumably because " in a lot of ways " we"re very similar, and it"s easy to look at the differences as a result. Frankly, there are a lot of things that the US does better than the UK, and here"s the place to explore that in 8 handy points (one of those things is not chocolate, by the way " US chocolate totally sucks). 1. Driving age: In America we have the privilege of driving at the age or 16 but in the UK 17 is the required age. Even if your mature enough thats crazy! 2. Comic books: Not only are we the best at making these bad boys, like Iron Man, Captain America, and the Incredible Hulk, America pretty much invented this medium. Our foothold with comic books is so concrete, I couldn"t even think of a single comic book that originated in Europe. In fact, Google pretty much laughed in my face when I tried to find just one mainstream superhero from the UK. But in America, we have literally countless comic book universes and storylines we can sink our teeth into, and it"s been a welcomed tradition now for over 80 years. And thanks to comic books, we have an endless array from superhero movies to dominate our box office every year, for better or worse. 2. Hip Hop: Taio Cruz is great and all, but mainstream hip hop is clearly defined by what makes it big in the States. Just look at how Drake left a teen drama in Canada to become an American rap artist (okay, so maybe that was an easy call). I"ll grant the fact that the UK pretty much invented and perfected classical music and dubstep, but they can"t compete with the urban genre that was created in the States. The problem is that the UK is just too eloquent, probably. Just look at how they describe hip hop in their own country: ""UK rap" is a broad sonic church, encompassing anything made in Britain by musicians informed or inspired by hip-hop"s possibilities, whose music is a response to the same stimuli that gave birth to rap in New York in the mid-Seventies. (The Times) The greatest music artist originated from America. 3. Football: Now you may be thinking that this doesn"t count because the UK doesn"t even have Football in the sense I"m referring to (not soccer,) but they actually do have teams that throw the pigskin around " it"s just vastly overshadowed by soccer (what they call football). To be honest, I"ll always be a bigger fan of soccer, but few can deny the impact and influence American football has here in the states. 4. Tipping: For all those waiters out there...In the UK, waiting staff has to be paid according to their minimum wage, so tipping isn"t really expected. But thanks to our obsession with tipping in the U.S., we"ve developed a culture of people who will be super nice to us in order to make money out of us. Necessity brings about opportunity! 5. Guns: Gun rights in the UK are extremely limited, especially compared to the US. Sure, they have way fewer gun homicides than us, but at least our police are armed for the most part. Seriously though, Americans have a much richer heritage when it comes to using guns for hunting and sportsmanship. Plus, we have more guns than we have people, which means that our country stands a way better chance at overcoming apocalyptic scenarios. 6. Sneakers: We invented and perfect the athletic shoe. Technically, we could say that America is simply best at making things out of rubber, but we"ll just stick to bragging about how awesome our shoes are. Most of the world"s biggest athletic shoe brands are American. This includes the #1 brand, which is Nike. Additionally, we perfected the art of selling shoes through celebrity endorsements, which was made famous by Michael Jordan"s famous partnership with Nike in the 1980s. 7. Cop Procedurals: Don"t get me wrong, I love UK crime drama, but America is way better at finding a way to make every facet of cop life an interesting TV show. Not only do we have about 300 types of Law & Order/CSI/Criminal Minds spinoffs, but we even save some cop action for buddy movies and network sitcoms like Brooklin Nine Nine. In comparison, the UK"s Law & Order just feels sad, and Sherlock doesn"t really count. Part of what makes our procedurals special has to do with how fascinated we are with dubious science. If a show has a wacky side character who comes to conclusions with big words that don"t associate well, we can"t stop watching. 8. Olympics: Throughout my research America is ultimately better in the Olympics. Conclusion: America Is ultimately better. We have our freedom of speech. We have our rights. We have our liberty. We are America. We are a great nation.