【龙腾网】为什么欧洲人认为他们比美国好太多了？
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Why do Europeans seem to think they are so much better than America?
为什么欧洲人认为他们比美国好太多了？
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Mark Fortner, works at Aspen Biosciences
Well, let’s see:
No one goes bankrupt from a cancer diagnosis there. Everyone has access to healthcare.
The quality of the educational systems aren’t tied to where you live. You can get an outstanding education pretty much anywhere. In Germany, you can get a PhD without taking out student loans — higher education is either low-cost or free. Which means that your potential as a human being is greater. Admittedly, people come here looking for the Great American dream, the ability to achieve more than your parents and grandparents. But that’s difficult to do without getting into debt, and without the proper qualifications, it’s very difficult to get the job you want, and to fulfill the dreams that you have. Educational debt also means delaying or foregoing purchasing that first house, and/or delaying having kids. Since so much of our economy is tied to home ownership, that has real repercussions. And delaying or not having children, means that we have a falling birth rate, and that we could end up like Japan, having a society whose birth rate has fallen below the replacement rate. You have an aging population that can’t be supported.
Which brings me to child care. Without quality, low-cost child care it’s difficult (if not impossible) for people to look for work, seek advancement, have fulfilling careers. Even if you have a great job, most jobs do not provide child care, and do not provide paid time off when you have a child. Without that early bonding, the family structure is strained. You have greater incidences of child neglect, divorce, emotional and psychological problems and crime. And if you don’t have the support you need to raise your family, you may decide not to have one (which brings me back to my earlier point). You just don’t see those kinds of problems to the same extent we see them in the US.
在欧洲人们不会 因为得了癌症就破产。大家都有医保。
教育质量不是根据所你在的地方决定的。几乎在所有地方你都可以获得很好的教育。在德国，你不用靠学生贷款就可以一直读到博士，欧洲的高等教育不是收费低就是免费的，这意味着你的潜力可以得到更大的开发。人们来美国寻找美国梦，但是这是需要通过债务来实现的，而且如果不具备一定的资格，你是很难获得自己想要的工作的，从而无法实现你自己的梦想。学生贷款意味着你得延迟或者放弃购买自己的第一套房子，或者延迟成家生子。由于我们很大一部分的经济都与房屋所有权绑定在一起，所以这产生的影响是巨大的。而延迟生子或者不要孩子，意味着我们的生育率在下降，最终我们可能变成日本那样，生育率降到替代率之下。那么老龄化人口就没有人照顾。
Lea Sing, lives in Germany
upxed Sep 14
First, I want to say that I don’t in no way want to generalize Americans. I know not all of them are delusional or uneducated. I am going to answer from a German point of view, since you can’t generalize all of Europe either.
So why do Europeans (in general) think they are better than America?
Americans don’t have a proper healthcare system. In most European countries, you can actually allow yourself to get sick without getting broke within a couple of months.
Americans don’t have a good education system. I am from Germany, and I have to admit, we also have a really shitty education system, but it is nothing compared to the American one. You know something went wrong when a university student almost failed her class because her professor thought Australia was a continent, not a country (Professor Didn’t Think Australia Was A Country, Almost Failed Student Who Pushed Back).
The US gun laws are a joke. It is ridiculous that it is possible for any civilian to buy a gun or even a rifle at wallmart. No tests to determine if the person might be mentally unstable, no license, nothing. Children are getting shot at school, and what does the US government do? Sending “prayers” to the survivors.
首先我想说我不想对美国人一概而论。我知道并非所有美国人都是缺乏教育的。我将从德国人的视角出发，毕竟我也不能代表全欧洲。
那么欧洲人大体上觉得自己比美国好吗？
美国人没有一个体面的医保系统。在大部分欧洲国家，你不会因为生病了就导致破产。
美国人假装自己是世界上最好的国家。是的，这就是欧洲人觉得自己更好的原因了。尽管有那么多明显的事情表明美国更差劲，美国人还是觉得自己优越于所有其他人。所以在欧洲人看来，美国人实在是太好笑了。
最后，是美国人让川普成为了总统。2016年的总统选举后，你再也不能责怪他人说自己比美国好了。
