Is America Number One Essay
Is America Number One?
I always thought that America was one of the best countries in the world, because
everyone knows that we are known for all the freedoms and equalities that we are granted
by just being born here. I also always thought America was one of the best, because I
always heard on the news about the problems that other countries were having with
diseases, economic problems, as well as problems within their government. But, now after
researching all these things about my own country, I have found that we aren't better than
anyone, unless you view being the best as being the most financially secured. Even there,
we aren't the richest country, according to aneki.com Luxemburg and Norway beat us in …show more content…
that category. And, I also found that even though we are the 3rd richest country, we have
the most billionaires living in this country then any other, but we are also the 13th most
expensive country to live in.
Then I thought, if being the richest doesn't make us the best or
the cheapest to live in for that matter, is it the fact that we are the country with the mos
equally treated population, but then again according to my research I was wrong. The US
was not even ranked among the countries that had the best gender equality. Then, while I
was at it, I decided to look up some more things about this country, and see if something
could prove that we were in fact a great country.
But, instead of finding great things, I found things that we as American's shouldn't
be too proud of, or at least our government shouldn't be proud of and trying to fix. Some of
the smaller things that I found that mostly had to do with the people of the united states
were that we are the ranked 2nd out of the countries with the highest teenage pregnancies,
with 83.6 teen pregnancies per 1000 US residents per year. Which should tell the government that they need to do more to prevent this, or try more education on teenage
sex. We are also ranked 3rd out of the countries with the highest divorce rate per
year.
Which says a lot about the stability of the families we have here. Our country is also
ranked 2nd of the countries with the highest number of prisoners. It says a lot about the
crime rate in this country when there is 680 prisoners for every 100,000 people living in the
US. I also found things that we are doing to our own environment that we shouldn't be
doing. We are ranked 7th out of the countries with the highest recycling rates, which
means we need to be recycling more. We are also ranked 2nd out of all the countries
ranked as the greatest water polluters. According to my research we produce 1968196 kgs
of water pollutants a day. So based on this information, I would say that no America is not
the best country, I still believe we are a great country, but we are just not the best.
I always thought that America was one of the best countries in the world, because
everyone knows that we are known for all the freedoms and equalities that we are granted
by just being born here. I also always thought America was one of the best, because I
always heard on the news about the problems that other countries were having with
diseases, economic problems, as well as problems within their government. But, now after
researching all these things about my own country, I have found that we aren't better than
anyone, unless you view being the best as being the most financially secured. Even there,
we aren't the richest country, according to aneki.com Luxemburg and Norway beat us in …show more content…
that category. And, I also found that even though we are the 3rd richest country, we have
the most billionaires living in this country then any other, but we are also the 13th most
expensive country to live in.
Then I thought, if being the richest doesn't make us the best or
the cheapest to live in for that matter, is it the fact that we are the country with the mos
equally treated population, but then again according to my research I was wrong. The US
was not even ranked among the countries that had the best gender equality. Then, while I
was at it, I decided to look up some more things about this country, and see if something
could prove that we were in fact a great country.
But, instead of finding great things, I found things that we as American's shouldn't
be too proud of, or at least our government shouldn't be proud of and trying to fix. Some of
the smaller things that I found that mostly had to do with the people of the united states
were that we are the ranked 2nd out of the countries with the highest teenage pregnancies,
with 83.6 teen pregnancies per 1000 US residents per year. Which should tell the government that they need to do more to prevent this, or try more education on teenage
sex. We are also ranked 3rd out of the countries with the highest divorce rate per
year.
Which says a lot about the stability of the families we have here. Our country is also
ranked 2nd of the countries with the highest number of prisoners. It says a lot about the
crime rate in this country when there is 680 prisoners for every 100,000 people living in the
US. I also found things that we are doing to our own environment that we shouldn't be
doing. We are ranked 7th out of the countries with the highest recycling rates, which
means we need to be recycling more. We are also ranked 2nd out of all the countries
ranked as the greatest water polluters. According to my research we produce 1968196 kgs
of water pollutants a day. So based on this information, I would say that no America is not
the best country, I still believe we are a great country, but we are just not the best.