>>>- 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.
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>Those are good ones that I had missed.
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>>>- movies - more good movies than anyone else (Schlinders List, Munich, Capote, Shawshank
>>Redemption...)
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>>That's an opinion, not a fact.
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>True, but look at any list of the top 100 movies from any critic and it will be dominated by American movies.
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>>Did you look at that? Women's suffrage was growing all over the world before the U.S. really took it seriously.
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>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

Granted, but that's small potatoes when held up to comparison with everything else. The Wyoming Territory hardly qualifies as 'The U.S.'. You can usually find small pockets of any country where things are different, but it makes more sense to me when saying that The US is the best at everything, that you actually talk about the U.S., and not some minor part of it. Especially when you consider that when Wyoming wanted to become a state, the U.S. government threatened to disallow them unless they got rid of women's suffrage. So how forward thinking was that? Fortunately the gov backed down on the threat when Wyoming told them to stick statehood where the sun don't shine if that was going to be a sticking point.