1 I do live in LA but in sorta the more gang bangy neighborhood but I have spent time in all parts
2 its like any other city bro
3 no obv those movies r not realistic at all at least not anymore
3 I haven’t rlly been outside of the US but I have friends who have immigrated here and they say the US is a mix of a bunch of diff countries kinda
4 it is not peak human happiness BUT that doesn’t mean you won’t be happy here everyone seems to be unhappy in their own country and love it in another its the same everywhere
5 yes some parts of cali are beautiful but only the nature parts which goes the same everywhere
California is jus NY but bigger and known for movies.
Don’t have a god complex for America though but please come and visit also visit other places and honestly just put yourself out there in general. What country are you from?
BTW we have no lifes here too. Ik so many ppl who jus rot and game everyday and their excuse is “I wish I was born in another city/country my life would have been so much better” direct quote from my brother and 3 other ppl I’ve met
i can't name my country i regret everyday why i was born here.
unfortunate accident landed me in this country.
but you seem to be very aware for 15-18 age guy.
i have an idealized version of America.
i am writing anything that i know about America do read it and tell me something interesting.
I've read history form federalist papers, George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison
all great guys.
Amerigo Vespucci
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Mark Twain
Thomas Pynchon
California Gold Rush
Gilded Age
Oil and rail billionaires in America
French and English colonies,
Jehovah's Witnesses
New York in the 19th century
Scott Fitzgerald
1930s financial depression and the making of the Federal Reserve Bank
Chief Seattle's speech
martin Luther king
Reagen as president
George bush
jfk assassination
Mexican American War
Spanish-American War
Civil War
Southern plantation fields and mansions
Post-war and depression American Dream in the 1950s
Louisiana prostitutes and prisoners
Noam Chomsky on
Vietnam, Korea, the American War, and the Cold War
Woodstock 1960's music festival.
Boston Tea Party
Thirteen Colonies
Slavery in Southern states and Abraham Lincoln
Mexican War and Texas Purchase
Ohio
i know all 50 states names.
Alaska is also pretty cool.
NAFTA trade relations.
Colorado Mountains
Rocky Mountain Range
Appalachians
Big Sequoia trees in California
Utah's big red rocks
Michigan's automobile industry and riots between Blacks
Roe v. Wade
Jim Crow