>I've been thinking about this for the a few years, the US is the best at everything. I've tried to find a few things that they aren't the best, and posted these at the end of this. I appreciate any comments on this.
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>Economics:
>- it's GDP is greater than the next 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
>- even GDP per captia it is still 3rd

Check out their Current Account Balance . Maybe you need to define 'best' when it comes to economics.

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>Military:
>- by far the strongest and most effective military. It is said that no combination other other militaries can defeat.

No argument

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>Arts:
>- music - they invented every new music form in the 20th century (Jazz, Blues, Rock, Rap, Hip-hop, Punk, Grunge)

Reggae? Calypso? Not being overly familiar with some music forms does not mean they don't exist.

>- movies - more good movies than anyone else (Schlinders List, Munich, Capote, Shawshank
Redemption...)

That's an opinion, not a fact.

>- art - the last great artist with world-wide fame was an American Andy Warhol
>- literature -

Define 'great'. I think he was laughing all the way to the bank.

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>Science:
>- a disportionate amount of Nobel prize winners are American http://www.aneki.com/nobel.html
>- the most varied and innovative space program

No argument

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>Human Development
>- pioneers in women's equality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_suffrage

Did you look at that? Women's suffrage was growing all over the world before the U.S. really took it seriously.

>- pioneers in civil or minority rights
>- pinoneers in indivual rights

I'm not convinced. There are lots of places in the world where individual rights are and have been treated more importantly than in the U.S. for a long time.

>Sports:
>- most Olympic medals of any country by far http://www.olympic.it/english/medal
>- has a few sports leagues made of of the world's best athletes (basefall, football, basketball, and one of the top for hockey)

No argument.

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>The only things I can think of that they aren't the best at:
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>- cars: Europeans make the better, the Japanese make they better and cheaper
>- peaceful diplomacy: this is a weak one, but the Americans are a little to quick to war. I can't prove this one, so I am willing to withdraw this.
>- quality of life - on these types of indexes, the US can either be in the bottom of the top 10 or out of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index