>>- music - they invented every new music form in the 20th century (Jazz, Blues, Rock, Rap, Hip-hop, Punk, Grunge)
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>Reggae? Calypso? Not being overly familiar with some music forms does not mean they don't exist.

Those are good ones that I had missed.

>>- movies - more good movies than anyone else (Schlinders List, Munich, Capote, Shawshank
>Redemption...)
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>That's an opinion, not a fact.

True, but look at any list of the top 100 movies from any critic and it will be dominated by American movies.

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

You chose to ignore this nugget "In 1869 the Wyoming Territory in the United States became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage