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Soon I will post on life in NYC again- on my first cultural experiences here; on being hip in Williamsburg; on drinking too much whiskey with SIPA friends; on how happy I’ve been with the great discussion pertaining to the last post; on how midterms surely but surely are sucking all life out of my pathetic shell of a body… But first I’ll have to actually dedicate myself to mentioned midterms. So any readers will have to stick out the anticipation a little longer.

Until then, here’s anteresting video. It will definately be more interesting for the Danes above, say 20, who saw the Jørgen Clevin shows after ‘børnefjernsyn’, but I think any- and everyone will get the message. I think it’s quite clever:

My cousin Niels keeps writing me emails asking “Jakob, tell me just one good thing about the US”. He just saw ‘Sicko’. And read about Bollinger. And also, he has socialist-tendencies, I think, so it figures…

None the less, I think it is an interesting question. And one that many Europeans ask themselves more or less seriously (I just mentioned this post to my (American) land lady and she said “Yeah, I keep wondering what the good things are. I can tell you good things about NYC, but the US… Hmm…”)

Therefore this post. Let me know what you think. Why do you love US? Or why don’t you? Everyone’s viewpoints are welcome!

I could put out some teasers:

(universal) health care.
culture of entrepreneurship.
Tolerance.
Soccer (it’s called football, aight?)
Bush… Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, etc
Minimum wage
Nature
Concepts of ‘race’
Foreign Policy

There are many more. Don’t be shy- let’s know what you think!
Just post your thoughts under ‘comments’.

Yeeha