You’re creating a caricature of the US: yes, we do have some loud right wing gun nuts, but we also have millions more quietly hard-working professionals who wouldn’t feel out of place in any European city. US states on the coasts are more similar to Europe in many ways than they are to other US states in conservative areas like the deep south or the lower midwest. Suburbs and small towns in New England, New York and the Pacific NW have crime rates just as low or lower than Europe. America’s best public schools are also among the best in the world and feed into its private universities, which are also the most sought after in the world. It’s a huge country, not easy to characterize but very easy to misrepresent based on what’s trending on Tik Tok.
You’re creating a caricature of the US: yes, we do have some loud right wing gun nuts, but we also have millions more quietly hard-working professionals who wouldn’t feel out of place in any European city. US states on the coasts are more similar to Europe in many ways than they are to other US states in conservative areas like the deep south or the lower midwest. Suburbs and small towns in New England, New York and the Pacific NW have crime rates just as low or lower than Europe. America’s best public schools are also among the best in the world and feed into its private universities, which are also the most sought after in the world. It’s a huge country, not easy to characterize but very easy to misrepresent based on what’s trending on Tik Tok.