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Why do Europeans seem to think they are so much better than America?

為什么歐洲人認(rèn)為他們比美國好太多了？

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Mark Fortner, works at Aspen Biosciences
Well, let’s see:
No one goes bankrupt from a cancer diagnosis there. Everyone has access to healthcare.
The quality of the educational systems aren’t tied to where you live. You can get an outstanding education pretty much anywhere. In Germany, you can get a PhD without taking out student loans — higher education is either low-cost or free. Which means that your potential as a human being is greater. Admittedly, people come here looking for the Great American dream, the ability to achieve more than your parents and grandparents. But that’s difficult to do without getting into debt, and without the proper qualifications, it’s very difficult to get the job you want, and to fulfill the dreams that you have. Educational debt also means delaying or foregoing purchasing that first house, and/or delaying having kids. Since so much of our economy is tied to home ownership, that has real repercussions. And delaying or not having children, means that we have a falling birth rate, and that we could end up like Japan, having a society whose birth rate has fallen below the replacement rate. You have an aging population that can’t be supported.
Which brings me to child care. Without quality, low-cost child care it’s difficult (if not impossible) for people to look for work, seek advancement, have fulfilling careers. Even if you have a great job, most jobs do not provide child care, and do not provide paid time off when you have a child. Without that early bonding, the family structure is strained. You have greater incidences of child neglect, divorce, emotional and psychological problems and crime. And if you don’t have the support you need to raise your family, you may decide not to have one (which brings me back to my earlier point). You just don’t see those kinds of problems to the same extent we see them in the US.

在歐洲人們不會 因為得了癌癥就破產(chǎn)。大家都有醫(yī)保。
教育質(zhì)量不是根據(jù)所你在的地方?jīng)Q定的。幾乎在所有地方你都可以獲得很好的教育。在德國，你不用靠學(xué)生貸款就可以一直讀到博士，歐洲的高等教育不是收費低就是免費的，這意味著你的潛力可以得到更大的開發(fā)。人們來美國尋找美國夢，但是這是需要通過債務(wù)來實現(xiàn)的，而且如果不具備一定的資格，你是很難獲得自己想要的工作的，從而無法實現(xiàn)你自己的夢想。學(xué)生貸款意味著你得延遲或者放棄購買自己的第一套房子，或者延遲成家生子。由于我們很大一部分的經(jīng)濟(jì)都與房屋所有權(quán)綁定在一起，所以這產(chǎn)生的影響是巨大的。而延遲生子或者不要孩子，意味著我們的生育率在下降，最終我們可能變成日本那樣，生育率降到替代率之下。那么老齡化人口就沒有人照顧。

Lea Sing, lives in Germany
upxed Sep 14
First, I want to say that I don’t in no way want to generalize Americans. I know not all of them are delusional or uneducated. I am going to answer from a German point of view, since you can’t generalize all of Europe either.
So why do Europeans (in general) think they are better than America?
Americans don’t have a proper healthcare system. In most European countries, you can actually allow yourself to get sick without getting broke within a couple of months.
Americans don’t have a good education system. I am from Germany, and I have to admit, we also have a really shitty education system, but it is nothing compared to the American one. You know something went wrong when a university student almost failed her class because her professor thought Australia was a continent, not a country (Professor Didn’t Think Australia Was A Country, Almost Failed Student Who Pushed Back).
The US gun laws are a joke. It is ridiculous that it is possible for any civilian to buy a gun or even a rifle at wallmart. No tests to determine if the person might be mentally unstable, no license, nothing. Children are getting shot at school, and what does the US government do? Sending “prayers” to the survivors.

首先我想說我不想對美國人一概而論。我知道并非所有美國人都是缺乏教育的。我將從德國人的視角出發(fā)，畢竟我也不能代表全歐洲。
那么歐洲人大體上覺得自己比美國好嗎？
美國人沒有一個體面的醫(yī)保系統(tǒng)。在大部分歐洲國家，你不會因為生病了就導(dǎo)致破產(chǎn)。

美國人假裝自己是世界上最好的國家。是的，這就是歐洲人覺得自己更好的原因了。盡管有那么多明顯的事情表明美國更差勁，美國人還是覺得自己優(yōu)越于所有其他人。所以在歐洲人看來，美國人實在是太好笑了。
最后，是美國人讓川普成為了總統(tǒng)。2016年的總統(tǒng)選舉后，你再也不能責(zé)怪他人說自己比美國好了。