10 reasons why I love America - ForumDaily
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10 reasons why i love america

Фото: Depositphotos

Фото: Depositphotos

Over the past 2 of the year I lived in the United States, I thanked many times the fate, the higher forces, and my husband for bringing me to this country. I love America with the love of an immigrant who has something to compare with. Therefore, the things that are born and lived here all their lives to people seem to be valuable, something that seems ordinary and taken for granted. At the same time, you should not think that I put on rose-colored glasses on arrival, so I stuck to them. In America, problems are enough, and starting from scratch life in a new place in an already mature age is not easy. But only everything is known in comparison, and America definitely wins in it.

Here are my personal 10 reasons to love the USA.

1. America is the best country for immigration. Once you move to Europe or Asia, you will always be a stranger there. There are millions of people like you who came to the States. And those who were born here are also children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren of those who came here. You are one among strangers. And your immigrant status does not limit you in any way. Ignorance of English - yes, this is limiting. For actors, the problem is the accent. For journalists, PR specialists, and advertisers who immigrated in adulthood - lack of English proficiency at the level of native speakers and insufficient knowledge of local realities. Maybe there will be another half a dozen professions that depend on perfect knowledge of the language. For them (more precisely, for us, since I myself am a journalist), moving most often means a change of profession and finding oneself in related, or not so, fields. And you need to be mentally prepared for this.

2. It all depends on you. Well, that's literally all. If you want to open a small business, open it. If you want to work for a large corporation, study and work. If you want to find a part-time job for half a day, you will find it. If you want to create a startup, create it. If you want to do nothing, sign up for food stamps and Obamacare.

It all depends on the goal and efforts made to achieve it. And not from where the father works, who to whom is the godfather and who is whose lover.

3. Lack of corruption. Its not that not at all. Of course, from time to time some scandals flare up, revealing the spikes of business and government officials. But firstly, it is rather an exception to the rule, and secondly, the amounts are not comparable with tens, hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars, which regularly surface in corruption scandals in Ukraine and Russia. I think you should not add that it would never even occur to anyone to bribe a policeman, a doctor or an official. In a word, the hornet’s nest of American corruption is located somewhere in the top and ordinary people are not particularly concerned.

For example, I’m afraid to imagine what the process of obtaining a green card would become and how many people would need to be brought in if they were issued by Ukrainian officials.

4. Diversity of cultures and languages. Whether you like it or not, you begin to look at the world with different eyes when every day you come across manifestations of different cultures. Our park, where I go for a walk with my child, is like a world in miniature: Hindu women in national clothes are walking sedately along the path, a Chinese grandfather is practicing some kind of breathing practice on a bench, an elderly Japanese couple is jogging, a black gray-haired woman is driving on an automatic wheelchair, an American with a small child lies on the grass and watches the clouds, a large Mexican family celebrates a child's birthday. The different races, skin colors and worldviews that surround you change your picture of the world. You respect the differences of others and become more tolerant.

5. Recognition of human life as the highest value. A man must live and must live well. Regardless of whether he has special needs, whether he moves in a wheelchair, or has dentures in place of arms or legs. In America, everyone can realize themselves, and special social support programs will help in especially pressing problems.

6. Attitude towards animals. Americans mostly have dogs as pets. They are loved and cherished here, carried in strollers, and bought with various bells and whistles for them. For pets, there are beauty salons, hotels, and even something like Amazon, where only pet products are sold. You can get a real prison sentence for cruelty to animals in America. For here any life is valuable - not only human life, but also those we have tamed.

7. Respect for personal space. People line up at the cash registers here, half a meter to a meter apart from each other. No one will try to move closer, creating for themselves the deceptive illusion that the shorter the line looks, the faster they will be served. Although, of course, during rush hour the metro can be quite crowded. But using public transport is rather a necessary measure for those who do not want to stand in traffic jams when getting to San Francisco. The car, America's favorite means of transportation, provides the best guarantee of this most personal space. Another manifestation of this is hotel rooms in hospitals and maternity hospitals. It’s hard for me to imagine rooms for 8-10 people in America, not to mention the fact that some of the patients were put in the corridor.

8. Household convenience. In the States, everything is thought out to the smallest detail - as long as it is convenient and safe for the consumer. For example, the bathroom coating is not smooth, but slightly rough, so that you do not slip and fall. If I can’t open the package with just my left hand, then I immediately understand that I’m doing something wrong - manufacturers usually have everything thought out in this regard. And this is not to mention the fact that a barrier-free environment has been created everywhere: even in a wheelchair, even with a stroller, you can go anywhere without any problems. All more or less large supermarkets always have toilets. Some baby stores and airports even have baby feeding rooms.

9. Service above all. In America, the client must be satisfied with the purchase, return of goods, communication with employees, and service in the restaurant. If for some reason you are not satisfied, they are ready to meet you halfway, make a discount, come up with some other option so that you leave smiling. It is not for nothing that it was in the USA that Tony Hsieh created the online store Zappos, the alpha and omega of which was the highest level of service. For example, its customer service helps potential customers find a product they don’t have in competitors’ stores or, in a textbook case, helps them order pizza. And this concept is becoming more and more popular among American entrepreneurs.

Фото: Depositphotos

Фото: Depositphotos

10. Self-esteem. It consists of little things: the opportunity to earn money doing what you love to do, the fact that they fuss with you in hospitals, the fact that they won’t be rude to you out of the blue, etc., etc. Even from how they are turning to you. Here no one will throw “girl” or “woman” at you. I am “lady” or “ma’am” here. Men here are addressed as “sir” and called “gentlemen”. Moreover, this does not depend on social role or financial status. A waiter or valet is called “sir” here, just like a White House employee or a Wall Street financier.

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