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Is Life Better in the USA or Europe? A Comprehensive Comparison

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Discover the impact of environment on personal well-being and cultural differences between the USA and Europe. Explore the trade-offs and benefits of living in each continent through a dynamic perspective.
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It turns out, humans are not the same everywhere.
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Who you are is at least partially influenced by where you are.
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Your environment literally has an impact on you.
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And if you don't believe me, studies show this.
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And this is a dynamic that's influencing all of us,
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including me as I've moved from one continent to another.
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The tug of war between the US and Europe
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is just so intriguing to me.
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It just feels like this endless battle
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between the new and the old world and the West.
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There's no right and wrong, obviously.
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when it comes to a discussion like this of cultural comparison.
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There's just trade-offs.
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It turns out that you can't have it all.
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I think the human race really benefits as a species from our differences.
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Plus, it's really fun to articulate the things that I'm seeing take place in the world.
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And so that's the inspiration behind this piece.
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Comparing the life that I've lived for 19 years in the US
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to the one that I've lived for five years here in Europe.
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And how my view of things continues to evolve.
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Now, national stereotypes are nothing new, right?
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One of the easiest ones to point to is the idea that there's more interversion in Asia, for example.
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Generally speaking, massive generalization and more extroversion in other places like Brazil.
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There are exceptions to all generalizations, right?
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But there's also a grain of truth.
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You know, the jokes that we make about these sorts of things wouldn't be funny if they were completely inaccurate.
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If I were to say, oh, the US is a quiet country that is very respectful to all other nations
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and doesn't make a lot of noise.
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I lose all credibility, right?
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You just don't believe me,
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because there's not really a lot of truth to that.
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Now, while I've already made a few pieces
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exploring cultural comparisons
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between different parts of the world,
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different countries and different regions,
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I wanna dig a little bit deeper this time.
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Beyond superficial comparisons like,
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oh, Europeans use air conditioning a lot less than Americans.
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Yes, produce is a lot cheaper
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and a lot higher quality in Europe
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than in the United States,
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because the government's subsidized that sort of thing,
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because people care about it a lot more.
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And yes, technologies a lot more affordable in the United States,
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partially because of taxation on imports,
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but also because as a society,
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there's more of an orientation towards innovation.
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And one of the ways that keeping up with the Jones
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is manifest itself in the US is having the latest shiny thing.
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But I want to dig deeper into the character of these two continents,
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