American Culture, you either love it or hate it.

I love it if I'm honest. For many reasons.

1. Food: No other country in the world could invent pancake sausage. And if that wasn't crazy enough you can dip it in Bacconaise. Whats that? You don't believe me? Well here's proof you fucker.
   http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009/02/26/jon-stewart-eats-pancake-wrapped-sausage-dipped-in-baconnaise/
2. TV/Movies: Honestly, just think of all the gold that's been sent our way from America. Quick run through of the classics. Sports movies, Catchphrase comedy, tv shows that are basically soft core porn in the afternoon, actual porn. There are good shows as well though, such as Firefly, RedvsBlue, Friends, Scrubs, Weeds etc.
3. Nerdom: Britain could claim to be the start of nerdiness with Doctor Who, but lets face it, the Yanks are ten times nerdier than we could ever hope to be. Just think, WOW, Star Trek, Dungeons and Dragons, massive comic book stores, star wars etc. Seriously Britain is severely lacking in comic stores.
4. High School: How do they manage such division in a population of less than a 1000 students and all from the same area and without the historical three class system in Britain. Without such divisions as Nerd, Jock and Cheerleader how are we meant to know whose who. Also i think there was a musical about it at some point. Crazy idea really, its probably not very popular. Wait, They made THREE, curse you Walt Disney
   
5. Stanly Kubrick: I didn't want to pick out individuals too much in this list, but Jesus Christ this guy was crazy, made some awesome films though. Wasn't afraid of being censored, but when Clockwork Orange went pear shaped (LOL) he had the pears to ban it himself. 2001: A space Odyssey was awesome purely to hear "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true..." sung by a Robot. And Full Metal Jacket is just brutally awesome and im still shitting myself after watching the Shining yesterday.
   
6. George Bush: Comedy died a little inside when he left.
   
   
7. The Simpson's: A frequent event in my childhood was me knowing about some classic book or movie and my parents asking how. To which i responded, the Simpson's did a piss take of it. I watched the Shining last night, but i knew what would happen because the Simpson's did a Halloween horror special of it.
8. Political and Religious Diversity: This is problem the source of most hatred towards the USA. Crazy Christians, Guns are legal, Socialism is a dirty word in some areas. For me though this is awesome. In Britain there is not much difference anymore between Conservatives and labour, yet in America you can get insane people on the right and left. And if you put them in a room together you can watch them tear seven kinds of free speach out of there arse.
9. College Sports: This is one aspect i am truly envious of. I mean they have college matches broadcast live for Christs sake. All we get is the Oxford vs Cambridge match and who wants to watch those prissy fuckers bite their thumbs at each other.
10. Rooster Teeth: If I'm honest i had a very low opinion of Texas, i divided it up into religious crazy people and money grabbing oil sellers. But these guys are just so fucking awesome i had to revise my entire opinion of the Lone Star State and America as a whole. Fellow blogger has pointed this out that a lot of people just hate America because of a few things (mind you Iraq, Vietnam, and Hiroshima are all very good reasons to hate a country) without looking at whats good in a country. South Park said it best when they summed America up as country that could both protest war and seemingly advocating it at the same time.
    

Some of these points may seem like veiled insults and some our genuine compliments, which sums America up quite nicely if you ask me. No countries perfect, but as long as you visit and look there are good things to be found everywhere.