Now about Europe versus the United States. Europe has a different history than the United States. A long history of strong governments, smaller communities, and more recently... social upheaval due to war and the collapse of the USSR. These factors make Europe way different than the United States.

The United States is commonly quoted for our high crime rates and criminal incarceration. This however is due to one huge issue... Ease of trading locations. No other nation has this ease, in Germany you can only go so far before your out of Germany. Russia, or it's precursor the USSR, does not have easy location trading. Especially in the old USSR... you wanted to move, you had best have not just a good reason, but permission from a dozen different groups.

But modern Russia is still an issue getting around. You cannot just find a flat just like that, and a job. No, it is a bit different. But the United States... you can get around here with exceptions for Alaska and Hawaii, with just a thumb. No passport needed, no language barriers, no lack of roads, just the wide expanse that is America for you to see at your will (As I have extensively in the past year and a half).

The difference is that crime can migrate, without barriers, without issues. If you get a city weak on crime, that eventually goes hard on crime, you get a migration of some of the worser elements. Whats worse is we do not know these strangers moving in, there is no community like there is in many European nations.

And the United States has no system of humiliation, or personal honor like the East has... Additionally we have the problem of being center to two forms of drugs, having created many more forms, and being the primary destination for another. Our very success at shipping and industry even subjects us to the issues of the poppy... Yes we are the drugs cross roads of the world. Then as discussed elsewhere we have problems with judges and laxity of law.

Lets also go over some other issues. Europe, for most of it at least, suffered under World War II like only parts of China, Japan, and Eastern Russia did. Europe took a different route than those other places, and is much more fearful of wars than ever before in their history. This is a simple fact. But a side effect of the war also intrudes... Emotions.

Yes I said emotions. I have seen this all to often, where a European will be more emotional about a subject than clinical. If they think it is wrong to do something, nothing will change them in their thinking short of a mountain in their path. Evidence has no meaning, they can see evidence after evidence and never change their tune. Like European support for Liberal Americans... despite the vast huge differences in what those two socialism's are. No evidence will sway them, they ignore the huge spending for people who donate to Democrats, but scream at those who donate to Republicans (who get no spending lol). They ignore the double and triple standards, the lies, the everything, in exchange for keeping their own personal world view intact.

If a European is an Atheist, you can never get them to admit the good things the Christian community does, but you can easily get them to attack it. They are set in their emotional ways, no good deed would ever be noticed past the day, the hour, the minute that it happened.

This onset of emotions was caused by the damages of World War II in my opinion, where people were so traumatized by the outcomes that they fled from the true world, thinking if they ignored parts then they could survive. This ignoring goes on today at the cost of Europe's greatness.

Now I need to change the tune here, to something else. Europe loves trains... oh they truly do, they have them everywhere, and sadly most lack any wit to know why it seems. Consider the United States, no borders, roads everywhere, versus Europe, borders everywhere with few roads over them...

I hope a bell went off in some peoples heads, but if not... well is it easier or harder to check 100 cars and pickup trucks, or 1 train with 150 people? Is it easier to control access at one point, or one hundred points?

Europe's own history has made it require trains. This is the difference between it and the United States. The United States has no internal border guards, no need for limiting access to one State or another.

It is our freedom to go anywhere there are jobs, where we wish, that makes us enjoy roads. I travel every day down them, often up to 600 miles a day.

In Europe however there is no legacy of roads going endlessly... there were borders. Things are changing, I see it indeed.. but a lot of the old mentality lives on... that trains are the big deal down there. Of course they are convenient... of course they are better placed than your roads... of course all this and all that... It was what your nations relied upon for trade! Of course they prioritized it!

Lastly... If I say Grand Canyon, Old Faithful, Crater Lake, or Salt Lake... how many of you outside of the United States have heard of at least two?

These are natural area's, not man made, which are landmarks of their own. Europe... I cannot name one for Europe... But what I can name are great cities that have fallen, architecture that remains, and great wars. Where are your landmarks? For all of the world, you are the most history following of the world, thinking your very history grants you ascendancy (though China also falls into this trap), for you think your thousands of years of history grants you this. All I can see is fallen empires, schisms, divisism, animosity for others, and so forth. The United States have been united since 1776, with one civil war between. How many nations have split, how many vanished, how many wars between each other has Europe seen since that time? You try to compare to us, but I say, you are wrong to compare... we are DIFFERENT.

That is the whole of this discussion. Showing that at all levels, the United States is not Europe, and Europe is not the United States. Do not try to change us, and we should not try to change you. Also one last thing... Europe get over yourselves.