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An additional note; this debate shouldn't be framed in terms of collectivism vs individualism, but of conformity vs individualism. It is a well known fact that right-wingers are conformist. It is also known that USA has a high proportion of right-wingers. Therefore, USA has high level of conformism.

To add to my previous post - another reason that I think that you are an American is that only an American would think Sweden, or any other Scandinavian nation, is socialist. They are certainly more free and more individualistic than USA. Another example of American collectivism is their...

There is an obvious thing that I missed mentioning before. Americans are amongst the most indoctrinated people in the world. An example is the pledge of allegiance, which they mindlessly utter all the time. Many of them march in lockstep to the tune of the media (which is mainly right-wing) and...

There is no correlative nor causative relationship between government regulations and collectivism. A chaotic mob is not individualistic but highly collective. Nor is there any relationship between fake individualism and social dynamism. Your last statement (the bolded bit) admits that USA is a...

To add to my previous post, if we look at some recent (over the last several decades) major cultural and social effects/events, we can see the following: Universal health care - USA is decades behind most First World nations and also some less advanced nations. Gun control - ditto. Abortion...

You are indulging in narrow viewpoint American exceptionalism to claim that almost every new cultural and social phenomena of last eighty years came from USA. BLM and Occupy Wallstreet are exclusively American, not international. They are also opposed by many people, so many don't feel empowered...

Except modern USA is not "freedom loving", it is collectivist; and those people who left Britain weren't individualistic but part of a tight religious community.

Compulsory voting is not a government mandate; it is a constitutional requirement, and it is enforced by independent institutions - the Australian Electoral Commission and its state equivalents, with no involvement or interference by governments; and no gerrymandering and all those other...

It doesn't matter if this god can't conceive anything as being evil. It is the people who make claims about their god, and that he is not evil in human terms. They are making the claim that he is all powerful, all knowing, and all good (by human standards). In that light, there is a...

Yes, he is well known for his comedy where he is very good, but one can really see how excellent he was in his serious roles such as The Fisher King and The Dead Poets Society.

Aren't most American politicians white (and male)? So statistically any politician being criticized or mocked will tend to be white, and usually male.

This reveals deep problems with these people. They either believe that he is a Christian, despite all the evidence that he is not a Christian, or they don't care that he is not a Christian., despite claiming themselves to be devout Christians. Also, if you had someone like Trump in behaviour...

I have had the same experience in Australia of finding government and business sites badly designed, with site navigation poor, sites uninformative, and if not simply searching for information but having to interact with them, presenting problems (the Australian government human services websites).

Off course the stupidity of this is that neither the Nazis or Democrats ever were or are socialist. If they knew any actual history then they would know that there were street battles between the Nazis and socialists in Germany in 1920s and 1930s. The Democrats are a centre-right party. The...

It is ironic that your claim to never started to believe in God also applies to the universe, because many Christians claim that God created the universe from nothing, and therefore if God didn't exist that the universe would have to come from nothing, whereas science says that the universe did...