Reasons for America’s greatness According to the line of argumentation, utilized by Stossel in his video What’s Great About America? America’s greatness accounts for the following:  1. The spirit of entrepreneurship. It is namely the fact that in America, for as long as they remain observant of the law, individualistically minded and industrious individuals are being a green light to go about attaining financial prosperity in just about any way they consider the most suitable, which had established objective preconditions for U.S. to become world’s richest country.  2. World’s strongest military. As of today, there is no army in the world that would be able to effectively challenge American army. After all, USS Ronald Reagan is alone capable of reducing just about any middle-sized country into a Stone Age, within the matter of half an hour. Nevertheless, it is not only America’s unchallenged military might that contributes to our country’s geopolitical greatness, but also the fact that, during the course of last fifty years, the objectives of America’s military operations had never been concerned with the occupation of independent countries per se .  3. Compassion. According to Stossel, Americans are very compassionate people, which in its turn, explains why they can be tricked into ‘helping the needy children of Africa’ with an apparent ease. This is also the reason why many white Americans (as shown in the video) seem to be willing to adopt children from the Third World, without giving a thought that by doing it they might be undermining country’s national integrity. Stossel also implies that it is due to considerations of compassion, which prompts American government to throw millions of dollars into the thin air, while providing financial assistance to ‘developing’ countries.  4. Racial tolerance. Even though Stossel does mention the fact that, as of today, the dynamics within American society are still being affected by an ongoing tension between representatives of different ethnic groups (as it is the case between Hispanics and Blacks, for example), he nevertheless expresses his belief in the eventual triumph of tolerance, as the conceptual foundation, upon which the integrity of American society is being firmly established. Apparently, Stossel does genuinely believe that ‘racial tolerance’ indeed sets America apart from the rest of world’s countries.  5. Freedom of speech. As it was pointed out by Stossel, America remains only the Western country where citizens’ right to exercise freedom of speech is being constitutionally guaranteed. This is exactly what differentiates America from the rest of Western countries – after all, even in such countries as Canada, Britain, France and Germany, one can be easily sentenced for as long as 3-5 years in jail for publically expressing his or her political opinions – this can classified as ‘uttering hate speech’. In America, however, this would be impossible – First Amendment guarantees citizens their right to say whatever they want to say, regardless of what self-appointed ‘experts on morality’ might think of it. In What’s Great About America? Stossel does mention the fact that American society is often being criticized on the account of its ‘materialism’, ‘