Don't get me wrong I love this country and we are still the envy of the world in many many ways. But with the all cons constantly going on about American Exceptionalism we are perceived by millions of people all over the world as arrogant pricks.

#1 America has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the entire world by a good margin.
#2 There are more car thefts in the United States than anywhere else in the world by far.
#3 Of all the major industrialized nations, America is the most obese. Mexico is #2.
#4 The average American drinks more than 600 sodas a year - the most in the world.
#5 U.S. corporations sell more fast food and more soda than anyone else in the world by a wide margin.
#6 Nobody watches more television per week (28 hours) than Americans do. Although to be honest, people living in the UK are tied with us.
#7 The United States leads the world in credit card fraud.
#8 The United States has the highest percentage of one person households on the entire planet.
#9 The United States has the highest divorce rate in the world by a good margin.
#10 The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world by far.
#11 There are more school shootings in America than anywhere else in the world.
#12 The United States has the highest child abuse death rate in the world.
#13 There are more "deaths by reptile" in America than anywhere else in the world.
#14 The United States has the most lawyers per capita in the entire world.
#15 The United States produces more pornography than any other nation in the world.
#16 Americans take more prescription drugs than anyone else in the world.
#17 More is spent on prescription drug advertising in America than anywhere else in the world.
#18 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.
#19 More people have been diagnosed with mental disorders in America than anywhere else on earth.
#20 The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire globe.
#21 There is more credit card debt in America than anywhere else in the world.
#22 There is more mortgage debt in America than anywhere else in the world.
#23 There is more student loan debt in America than anywhere else in the world.
#24 The United States spends more money on government schools than any other nation on earth does.
#25 U.S. citizens spend more time in school than anyone else in the world. So why are so many of us dumb as a rock?
#26 Nobody in the world gets more plastic surgery done than Americans do.
#27 The United States leads the world in eating disorder deaths.
#28 According to nationmaster.com, the United States has the most total reported crimes in the world by far.
#29 Nobody has more airport security thugs groping women and children than America does.
#30 The United States spends much more on health care as a percentage of GDP than any other nation on the face of the earth.
#31 The United States has the most complicated tax system on the entire planet.
#32 The United States has the most laws on the entire planet.
#33 The United States spends more on the military than the next 12 nations combined, and yet the Obama administration is considering plans to unilaterally slash the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal by up to 80 percent.
#34 The United States has the most foreign military bases in the world by far.
#35 The United States exports more arms to other countries than anyone else in the world.
#36 Americans spend more time sitting in traffic than anyone else in the world.
#37 Americans spend more money on elections than anyone else does in the world by a very wide margin.
#38 Every single year, the United States has the largest trade deficit in the world by far.
#39 The U.S. government wastes more money than any other government on earth does.
#40 The United States has accumulated the biggest mountain of government debt in the history of the world.
So after reading the list can we still say we are number one or more exceptional than other countries?
Now there are more, but i wanted to use something that all economist and political scientist and historians would agree on, that we use to judge a Nations economic factors on, wealth on and social issues on.
If you decide to answer on this question please, no disrespect or insults thrown out, yes i know i am a bomb thrower also, but if you refrain i will refrain and give comments, not just answers.

#1 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest total prison population on the entire globe.
#2 According to NationMaster.com, the United States has the highest percentage of obese people in the world.
#3 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin.
#4 The United States is tied with the U.K. for the most hours of television watched per person each week.
#5 The United States has the highest rate of ...
#1 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest total prison population on the entire globe.
#2 According to NationMaster.com, the United States has the highest percentage of obese people in the world.
#3 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin.
#4 The United States is tied with the U.K. for the most hours of television watched per person each week.
#5 The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet.
#6 There are more car thefts in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world by far.
#7 There are more reported rapes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
#8 There are more reported murders in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
#9 There are more total crimes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
#10 The United States also has more police officers than anywhere else in the world.
#11 The United States spends much more on health care as a percentage of GDP than any other nation on the face of the earth.
#12 The United States has more people on pharmaceutical drugs than any other country on the planet.
#13 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.
#14 Americans have more student loan debt than anyone else in the world.
#15 More pornography is created in the United States than anywhere else on the entire globe. 89 percent is made in the U.S.A. and only 11 percent is made in the rest of the world.
#16 The United States has the largest trade deficit in the world every single year. Between December 2000 and December 2010, the United States ran a total trade deficit of 6.1 trillion dollars with the rest of the world, and the U.S. has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976.
#17 The United States spends 7 times more on the military than any other nation on the planet does. In fact, U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined.
#18 The United States has far more foreign military bases than any other country does.
#19 The United States has the most complicated tax system in the entire world.
#20 The U.S. has accumulated the biggest national debt that the world has ever seen and it is rapidly getting worse. Right now, U.S. government debt is expanding at a rate of $40,000 per second.
YAAAAAY!!! GO TEAM AMERICA!!!
morons...
2. Free enterprise
3. Lack of Gov't intervention into our daily / personal life ( well, for the most part )
4. Our Constitution , and those that are protecting it.
and just what , in you mind / opinion , makes America the greatest in the world ?
Now what do i think what makes us great, because this is my country, and love my country even thought at times my country showed disdain for my mother, farther, uncle, aunts,and cousins.
And i will gladly lay down my life for MY COUNTRY, not for Israel, or in the name of oil, or any other thing, but for MY Country.
now , what part do " I not get " ?
You believe in ideas about yourself of excelllance, but at the same time you are blind for those things you excel lin a negative way.
"we are the best-SH's" excell in the last.
When I'm reading such post of bosting about the US exceptionality a lot of those points you mention in your post come to mind.
The strange thing is that when I confront them with facts, statistics of reliable sources the deny it saying:
The figures aren't right. the US does a better job than other countries upholding a high standard of collecting figures.
If they think I'm American I should leave the country.
If the have grasped that I'm Dutch than I should mind my own buisness.
Sometimes they mistake Dutch for Danish!
That if Americans did not win the war we would speak German.
The last one is the must hurtfull and the biggest misinterpreation of WWII history.
I'm Dutch, so from The Netherlands and when I read here US-SH's proclaiming to be the best, the most free, the most excellent country is does irritate me very much.
In my point of view this we are nr. 1 believe is very arrogant towards other countries
This AE-believe does the US more harm then good.
It has coused a lot of international problems in the past, it is also the main cou...
You believe in ideas about yourself of excelllance, but at the same time you are blind for those things you excel lin a negative way.
"we are the best-SH's" excell in the last.
When I'm reading such post of bosting about the US exceptionality a lot of those points you mention in your post come to mind.
The strange thing is that when I confront them with facts, statistics of reliable sources the deny it saying:
The figures aren't right. the US does a better job than other countries upholding a high standard of collecting figures.
If they think I'm American I should leave the country.
If the have grasped that I'm Dutch than I should mind my own buisness.
Sometimes they mistake Dutch for Danish!
That if Americans did not win the war we would speak German.
The last one is the must hurtfull and the biggest misinterpreation of WWII history.
I'm Dutch, so from The Netherlands and when I read here US-SH's proclaiming to be the best, the most free, the most excellent country is does irritate me very much.
In my point of view this we are nr. 1 believe is very arrogant towards other countries
This AE-believe does the US more harm then good.
It has coused a lot of international problems in the past, it is also the main couse of the international negative reactions the US gets internationally.
Futhermore countries have to abide to international agreed treaties and laws.
Proclaiming yourself as exceptional does place yourself outside the law that all have to abide to.
Countries in the world excell in some things, is average on others, below acceptable levels in others. The perecentace of those three can diffeer for every country.
It is nice if you do good on curtain points but it doesn't give anybody the right to call themselves the best.
It is better to put your energy in improving the average and below standard points.
Don't get me wrong I love this country and we are still the envy of the world in many many ways. But with the all cons constantly going on about American Exceptionalism we are perceived by millions of people all over the world as arrogant pricks.
Sorry, but because I know you share my obsession with oddball gif's I couldn't resist posting it, that and I love Ron frigging Swanson the uber-Libertarian on Parks and Recreation.
I love my homeland and want it to become a wonderful place. However, I want it to become a moral and just nation. I do not want the luxuries we enjoy to be stolen from another, to be built on the backs of slaves, or built upon a foundation of bones. I believe it and others have the capacity to become better and I hope for them to discover that path to the righteous state of being.
1. Ended world poverty
2. Created a harmonic world, where everyone gets on and wars are a distant memory
That Dragon you can see, is one I painstakingly painted by hand. I have a love for Dragons, whether they're based on myth or the dinosaurs, they mean a lot to me :)