Some of the impressions people internationally receive of the US, mainly based on the US media itself (and often accurately reflecting the attitude of the US government and large segments of the US population)...
In the US, it is perceived as unpatriotic to speak one's mind if it opposes the government...Didn't Know I Was Unamerican (video)
In the US, they allow assault weapons, but control what people read from the libraries...
In the US, there are dozens of choices of toilet paper, but only two political parties...
In the US, Christians promote heartless views...
In the US, freedom is protected by shrinking civil liberties...
In the US, a foreign people is liberated through the killing of tens of thousands of their citizens...
In the US, they call it a democracy although corporations control politicians and media...
In the US, they spend hundreds of billions on the military, while a fraction could give US citizens universal health-care, improve the education, feed the hungry...
In the US, both presidential candidates support increasing a military budget that already is as large as that of all other countries combined...
In the US, one relatively minor issue (terrorism) is allowed to take front stage to the exclusion of far more serious issues...
In the US, the election system has serious flaws and little effort is made to correct it (as we again see in Florida)...
In the US, people systematically support policies that harm themselves...
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