7. Broadway 🎭 (thanks, Jewish Americans!)
8. Buffalo 🦬 (thanks, Native Americans, and I’m so sorry for what we did to them and you!)
11. I know the Walt Disney Company is no angel, but I really do love that we have the world’s best theme parks. 🐭🏰
12. PUBLIC LIBRARIES. YOU WILL NEVER CONVINCE ME THAT THE USA IS WITHOUT ITS MERITS AS LONG AS WE HAVE PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 📚
13. Comic books and superheroes (thanks, Jewish Americans!) 🦸🏻♀️
14. Jazz music, blues music, rock ‘n roll, rap, and hip hop (thanks, Black Americans!) 🎶🎼🎵
15. Birthright citizenship 🗽
16. The Americans with Disabilities Act ♿️ (thanks, disabled Americans!)
17. Animation and cartoons (shoutout to Mel Blanc, another Jewish American who gave us all the Looney Tunes voices) 📺
19. No official language 🌎🗣️
21. Our Mexican cuisine (thanks, Latino Americans!). I know it’s probably not what you’d get in South/Central America, but if you’ve ever tried to get a taco outside the Americas, you know what I mean. 🌮
22. State and county fairs 🎡
23. Despite its shitty origins…Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday about sharing a meal with your family and being thankful for what you have. It’s nice to have a holiday that isn’t about buying stuff. 🦃🍗
24. Juneteenth and MLK Day (thanks, Black Americans, though I fully acknowledge that if we lived in a just world, those holidays would not have been necessary) ✊🏾
25. Labor Day and the labor movement. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
27. PBS 📺 We have AMAZING public media and I am forever grateful for it.
29. Our universities and the fact that not only are women allowed to attend them, they’re actually becoming more educated than men. 🎓
Might add to this as I think of more 🇺🇸
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