#20: It’s a Free Country
Let me explain a thing about America to those of you non-Americans reading: we are sort of obsessed with the idea of America being a “free country.” In fact, there is a common taunt among children and immature adults, where you ask them to stop doing something and they say “You can’t make me, it’s a free country.”
Unfortunately, I can personally attest to the fact that our focus on our freedom can and often does lead Americans to believe that we are the only country in the world that has any freedoms. Maybe we need to take every American on a field trip to Canada at least once in their life. It’s very close by, making it an easy trip, and it might blow some people’s minds.