Someone Online Asked “Americans, What Is A Good Thing About Your Country?” And 30 Folks Delivered

I live 45 mintues from Gatlinburg TN. Met her twice at dolly wood. She's an amazing person. She funds free books once a year to children under 10 years old here in the state. You just have to sign up for it.

Nest story I heard about her is that a journalist once commented thar thar had really small feet. And without pausing for a second dolly replied "things don't grow well in the shade, darlin"

Can an American explain why? I always see the love for her, but I don't know anything about her. I am really intrigued.

Along with Willie Nelson, she's a national treasure.

Check her out at the recent Hall of fame awards, especially with Duran Duran. ♥ she really is a lovely human.

Agreed. Here we can thank in large part Andrew Carnegie an industrialist of the last century who built many of our countries libraries with his larges.

The best one I've seen is the Cumberland RI one look it up it's awesome

Yes! Also, lot of people may not know this, but most libraries have a budget for buying new books. If there's a book you want and the library doesn't have it you can always ask if it's in their budget to get a copy! Our local library here seldom gets requests so they happy to get requested books for those that do ask.

Here in Australia, most libraries are extremely modern. I have always wanted to go to one like this in the picture

Whare on earth were you living before?????

Wow, it seems you get down voted here for just mentioning indigenous communities? Whilst the parks are beautiful, it can't be ignored that many of them had to be cleared of the people who lived there first. However, not just a US thing.

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I have been to two National Parks in the last two weeks. They are amazing places.

preserved after stealing it from indigenous people

Try Zion's national Park while it's raining!

Beautiful, until you get gored by a bison.

Yes

Here in Alabama, we have hush puppies, sweet tea, and cathead biscuits. Alot of our food seems to be pet related.

Here in Australia (where I live), a large part of the population is Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Greek, Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Singaporean, Spanish and Mexican meaning we get a large amount of food from different countries which is really nice and allows for people to experience diversity kind of

And it's not just in coastal areas. I think our infrastructure is really great for the most part which is why being able to ship and get fresh seafood and produce and meats is so good almost everywhere, even in such a large country. We also have a lot of local farms everywhere and stores are pretty good about selling from local farms, not just factory farms. But infrastructure is really the key to being able to provide food anywhere which is why a lot of countries that have a hard time feeding people en masse... if you look it's because they don't have enough roads and a delivery system in place to do it.

YES!

It drives me nuts when Europeans complain about Americans not traveling. Like, i can drive for 20 hours in any direction and see every climate imaginable without leaving the country. Or i could spend $600 for a plane ticket.

Don’t forget the rainforest. Hawaii

That's my California!!! I love my home.

Pretty much true. With Hawaii, you could feel & taste tropical paradise without leaving the country.

And what about..... Story?

Many great museums. The Getty in LA is free. The Cleveland museum of art is free, absolutely world class and no crowds. Many others.

Those we're all established a while ago now. We need more national museums all over the u.s. We don't fund the arts enough and it shows in our culture.

I love the Smithsonian! I grew up less than an hour away from DC, and I used to go there a lot. Can't recommend it highly enough!

As a kid, my parents couldn't get me out of the dinosaur/early man building

I never realized how spoiled I was living just 2 hours from D.C. until I worked for a bus company. We picked up and toured high school kids from all over the country for their BIG TRIP TO WASHINGTON. They would write us letters about how amazing it was..... (it's FREE! And right here to me!)

Except I want to strangle undisabled people who leave carts IN the disabled parking spot. Especially the electric ones, which are left in odd places by the people using them, because other people use the stripy areas as parking spots.

As a disabled person who has traveled abroad, I think this one deserves to be higher on the list.

Wait what countries don't have this I am just curious

Growing up my grandfather was a paraplegic. I almost voted for Daddy Bush for allowing it to pass.

Sidewalks that must be clean? I'd love to live wherever that is because it sure as hell isn't the part of America I'm in. (And I'm not talking litter, I'm talking natural stuff the city OUGHT to take care of.)

Why a picture of pacifiers in a glass of water?!