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Muscles posted...

I guess it depends what you consider great and what you consider America, like are we just talking about the American government? The American people? American culture? What how good does something have to be to be great? And how long?

A lot of great things have come from America, and I think generally Americans can be really good people (obviously not all, since there is no group that is 100% good) but the government has been trash for a long time, and American culture isn't what it used to be either, but I don't think that disqualifies it from being great. You can be great without being a paradise. I also don't think the government should be what you judge a country by, since they're all shit and it leads to negative world views.

While I would never go so far as to claim that there are no good American people (I know several personally who are awesome), i
wouldnt say that the American people are great as a whole. Theyre certainly not perceived that way by the rest of the world.