QA问答：英国有什么比美国做得更好的吗?

Clive Bilby
, Self-employed polymath and student that loves to learn
Answered Sep 18, 2017 · Upvoted by
Ann Clark
, former Retired civil servant at The United Kingdom
Far too many things to list, so I’ll pick just one, the humble electrical plug.
In Britain we use 240v, in America you use 120 volts
Every individual plug has a fuse inside it, in Britain, this is in addition to the household Fusebox (Consumer unit)
Our live plug pins are coated with a nonconductive material, so you cannot get a shock if you accidently touch the live pin, whilst it is being inserted into the socket
The wiring inside the plug means that if you pull the lead past breaking point, on a British lead, the live wire disconnects before the Earth (Ground), so you remain protected at all times

有太多的东西要列出来，所以我只选一个，不起眼的电插头。英国用240伏，美国用120伏。在英国，每个插头里面都有一个保险丝，这是在家用保险丝盒之外的(消费单元)。我们的带电插头涂有一层非导电材料，所以当你插入插座时不小心碰到插头，你不会受到电击。插头内部的接线意味着，如果你把引线拉过断点，火线会在接地之前断开，所以你一直处于保护状态。

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A British engineer invented the wheel. An American who was watching said ‘I can sell that, sign this contract’. A German colleague chipped in with ‘And I can make it more efficient’. Their Japanese colleague said ‘I can mass produce it’, the Korean team who were observing carefully said ‘We can mass produce it better’, whilst the Chinese group who were also watching said ‘We absolutely will not make a copy of that, honest’. The Italians said ‘We can make it go backwards’, but everyone secretly thought they would make it break down. The French contingent said nothing at all about the invention as they were out at lunch.
Meanwhile the British engineer had attached a second wheel, starting the whole process again.

一位英国工程师发明了轮子。一个看到的美国人说:“我可以卖这个，签个合同吧。”一位德国同事插话说:“我可以让它更有效率。”他们的日本同事说:“我可以量产它”，仔细观察的韩国团队说:“我们可以更好地量产它”，同时也在看的中国团队说:“我们绝对不会复制它，真的”。意大利人说“我们可以让它倒退”，但每个人私下里都认为他们会让它崩溃。法国代表团在外面吃午饭时，对这项发明只字未提。与此同时，英国工程师发明了第二个轮子，这整个过程又开始了一遍。

Pru Comben
, Coach, Instructor, Baker and Mucker Uper
Answered Mar 18, 2019 · Upvoted by
Anne Webley
, lives in The United Kingdom (1957-present)
Originally Answered: Name one thing the UK is better at than America in general?
Not having people massacred by gun violence.
Too obvious?
Keeping the population healthy no matter their income due to free at point of service health care.
Nope, that's too easy as well…
Having a respected leader of the government? Yes, but only just.
Standards of education. The UK education system is better than the USA's, perhaps with the exception of some Ivy League Universities…but we've got Oxford and Cambridge. The fact that some schools teach creationism instead of evolution, and don't allow sex education is astounding.
Human rights. We have less people per capita incarcerated, no death penalty either. We're not slowly banning abortion. We've not tried to ban Muslims from entering our country. Our police don't shoot people if scared if them.
Clean water. How is it that Flint Still doesn't have clean drinking water?
I think I've named enough.

没有人在枪支暴力中被残杀。说的太明显了吗？由于免费的医疗服务，无论收入如何，都要保持健康。拥有一个受人尊敬的政府领袖?是的，但只是刚刚好。教育标准。英国的教育体系比美国好，也许除了一些常春藤盟校，但我们有牛津和剑桥。事实上，一些学校教授创造论而不是进化论，并且不允许性教育，这是令人震惊的。人权。我们的人均监禁人数变少了，也没有死刑。我们没有在慢慢禁止堕胎。我们没有试图禁止穆斯林进入我们的国家。我们没有试图禁止穆斯林进入我们的国家。干净的水。弗林特怎么还没有干净的饮用水?我想我已经说得够多了。

Dave Kay
having spent time in both countries, working for UK and USA based IT companies i’d say this:
We’re by no means perfect, but I think the UK is one of the most tolerant and integrated countries in the world when it comes to race/colour/sex/sexual preference and religion. Yes the change hurts sometimes but I am proud to be British today because of these values, not because we won some war 100 years ago!
I am proud that refugees and asylum seekers want to come here, because they know we’ll help them.
I didn’t find the above to be true for the USA. Listen it’s better than many countries of course, but compared to the UK, it’s far less integrated and certainly more divided and closed to the world in all cases above.

我在这两个国家都待过，在英国和美国的IT公司工作过，我想说:
我们绝不是完美的，但我认为在种族/肤色/性别/性偏好和宗教方面，英国是世界上最包容和融合的国家之一。是的，改变有时会造成伤害，但我为今天的英国人感到自豪，因为这些价值观，而不是因为我们在100年前赢得了一些战争!我为难民和寻求庇护者愿意来这里感到骄傲，因为他们知道我们会帮助他们。我不认为上述情况适用于美国。听着，它当然比许多国家要好，但与英国相比，它远没有那么一体化，当然更分裂，在上述所有情况下都更封闭。

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Gordon Strathdee
, lives in The United Kingdom
upxed Jul 29, 2019 · Upvoted by
Anne Webley
, lives in The United Kingdom (1957-present) and
Steffen Taschner
, lives in The United Kingdom (2004-present)
Is Great Britain as technologically advanced as the United States?
The US is the most technologically advanced nation there ever was, so obviously not! I had the privilege of living there for 4 years in the 90s. It was a little like a sci-fi movie when someone gets transported to the future - I would just wander about gazing at the technological marvels that surrounded me. Just to pick out some of the highlights:
1) Domestic life - I was once visiting a friend’s house and their mother happened to be loading clothes into the washing machine. She turned to me and said, “Do you have washing machines in Scotland?” Obviously, I was forced to admit, that no we didn’t. Instead we just went down to the river and bashed our clothes off rocks to clean them.
2) Transport - I spent two weeks in the lovely town of Columbia. Missouri. There I amazed the locals with my insistence on using a strange outmoded form of transport known as “walking”. Locals would slow down as they passed in their modern cars, pointing and laughing. To them, it must have been like watching a live action version of the Flintstones.
3) Voting – would you believe it, but in the UK we still vote by drawing a little X next to the candidate we want to vote for. No sign of the advanced electronic voting they have over in the states. Indeed, we are so old fashioned that we haven’t even outsourced our voting to the Russians yet!
4) Guns – It may be hard for an American to believe but almost nobody in the UK owns their own guns. This means that if we have to rise up and overthrow our own government (currently seems like a good plan) then we will be armed with nothing more than some particularly well sharpened sarcasm.
Still, perhaps one day we can hope to be as advanced as the US. And there is some hope, as we now have our very own version of Donald Trump as PM!

英国的技术和美国一样先进吗?
美国是有史以来技术最先进的国家，所以答案显然是不!90年代我有幸在那里住了4年。这有点像科幻电影，当一个人被送到未来时——我会四处闲逛，凝视着我周围的科技奇迹。下面就来看看其中的一些亮点:
1) 家庭生活——有一次我去朋友家做客，他妈妈碰巧正在往洗衣机里装衣服。她转向我说:“你们苏格兰有洗衣机吗?”显然，我不得不承认，我们没有，我们只能去河边，把衣服在岩石上擦干净。
2)交通——我在美丽的哥伦比亚小镇待了两周，密苏里州。在那里，我坚持使用一种被称为“步行”的奇怪而过时的交通方式，这让当地人感到惊讶。当地人开着他们的现代汽车经过时，会放慢车速，指指点点，哈哈大笑。对他们来说，这就像看真人版的《摩登原始人》。
3)投票——你相信吗?在英国，我们投票的方式仍然是在我们想投票的候选人旁边画个小X。没有迹象表明他们美国拥有先进的电子投票。事实上，我们太过时了，我们甚至还没有把我们的投票外包给俄罗斯人!
4)枪支——美国人可能很难相信，在英国几乎没有人拥有自己的枪支。这意味着，如果我们必须起来推翻我们自己的政府(目前看来似乎是一个不错的计划)，那么我们只会用一些特别尖锐的讽刺来武装自己。
不过，也许有一天，我们可以希望自己能像美国一样先进。这是有希望的，因为我们现在有了我们自己版本的唐纳德·特朗普当总理!

Ned Boff
, Lead Electrical & Controls Engineer
Answered Aug 16, 2021
I am first generation American, my father was from London, met the woman who would become Mom on the boat on the way over in the 1950s… and as a result I had a childhood that involved time in America and England.
And the British (and, honestly, Europeans in general) do TV sports coverage far better than the beer commercial infused American sports coverage. Maybe in part because the sports doesn’t have so many pauses that are enablers of commercial breaks.
But the result is undeniable… it’s more pleasant to watch sports on TV in the pubs in England than it is to watch sports on TV at the bar in America.

我是第一代美国人，我的父亲来自伦敦，在20世纪50年代来美国的船上遇到了后来成为妈妈的女人。因此我的童年是在美国和英国度过的。英国人(老实说，还有欧洲人)对电视体育的报道做得远远好于加入啤酒广告的美国体育报道。部分原因可能是因为体育比赛没有那么多的停顿，而这些停顿可以做广告。在英国的酒吧里看电视上的体育比赛比在美国的酒吧里看电视上的体育比赛更令人愉快。

Matthew Arnold Jones
Plenty. There is of course a lot America does better than us too, but that's a different question.
Healthcare - The NHS is flawed but it has managed to work so far, and I know most Brits wouldn't trade it for the world. Everyone should have the right to healthcare free at the point of use.
Police - Our police are some of the most friendly and professional in the world. It is very rare that a police officer kills anyone, due to the fact that they are mostly unarmed. They are approachable, and are considered a public service, not an occupying force to be scared of.
The English language - What language are we talking about again? We created this wonderful language and as such we spell 'colour' correctly. Joking aside though, you Americans are more than willing to admit that you absolutely adore the way we speak our shared language. So much so in fact, that American girls tend to fall in love with a British guy as soon as he says something, demonstrated most recently by Prince Harry himself of course, who is now engaged to the American girl Meghan Markle. Thank you by the way, it is just amazing how many Americans, especially girls, have complimented my accent and the way I speak!
Gun control - We took decisive action after the Dunblane shooting to make sure that would never happen again. Gun crime still happens, and despite being on the rise it is still very small. While I do agree with President Trump that our government should do far more about Islamic terrorism, I do find it a little hypocritical of him when he hasn't done anything about mass shootings in his country.
Politics- I do think your politics is more entertaining than ours, but there are some aspects of politics which aren't an issue on this side of the pond. Everyone agrees guns should be off our streets, healthcare should be free at the point of use, abortion should be allowed.

有很多。当然,美国也比我们做得更好的,但这是一个不同的问题。
医疗保健----英国国民健康保险制度（NHS）是有缺陷的，但到目前为止它成功了，我知道大多数英国人都不会放弃它。每个人在使用时都应享有免费医疗的权利。
警察----我们的警察是世界上最友好和专业的。很少有警察杀人，因为他们大多没有武器。他们平易近人，被认为是一种公共服务，而不是一种可怕的占领军。
英语----我们在说什么语言来着?我们创造了这种美妙的语言，因此我们正确地拼写了“颜色”一词。说正经的，你们美国人要承认你们非常喜欢我们说共同语言的方式。事实上，美国女孩往往会在英国男孩说了些什么之后就爱上他，最近的例子当然是哈里王子自己，他现在已经和美国女孩梅根·马克尔订婚了。顺便说一句，有这么多的美国人，尤其是女孩，称赞我的口音和我说话的方式，真是令人惊讶!
枪支控制----邓布兰枪击案发生后，我们采取了果断行动以确保这种情况不会再发生。枪支犯罪仍在发生，尽管呈上升趋势，但仍然很小。虽然我同意特朗普总统关于我们的政府应该对伊斯兰恐怖主义采取更多行动的观点，但我确实觉得他有点虚伪，他对美国发生的大规模枪击事件无动于衷。
政治----我确实认为你们的政治比我们的更有趣，但有些政治问题在我们这边不是问题。每个人都同意枪支应该从我们的街道上消失，医疗保健应该免费使用，堕胎应该被允许。

Matthew Scott
Motor cars, chocolate, pubs/bars and police seem like the obvious answers. American motor cars are just shocking in design, look, performance and economy. A lot of American chocolate uses old milk and literally tastes like vomit due to the presence of butyric acid, a chemical you find both in American chocolate and worldwide vomit. American bars feel like seedy dens that you just wouldn't want to go into, also they have far too much neon and sports on TV. If you go to one you feel a bit stigmatised, as emphasised by American cultural tropes, for example on the Simpsons, with Barney and Mo. Admittedly the quality of the American beer has improved vastly in recent years. In the UK police are actually nice people generally, and you can go and talk to them without fear that you might end up shot or beaten.
No offence meant to our American friends, as I very much enjoyed my time there.

汽车、巧克力、酒吧和警察似乎是显而易见的答案。美国汽车在设计、外观、性能和经济方面都令人震惊。很多美国巧克力用的是旧牛奶，由于含有丁酸，所以尝起来真的像呕吐物，丁酸是一种你在美国巧克力和世界各地的呕吐物中都能找到的化学物质。美国的酒吧给人的感觉是那种你根本不想进去的肮脏的酒吧，而且他们有太多的霓虹灯和体育电视节目。如果你去看，你会觉得有点丢脸，就像美国文化所强调的那样，比如《辛普森一家》中的巴尼和莫。诚然，近年来美国啤酒的质量有了很大的提高。在英国，警察通常都是很好的人，你可以去和他们交谈，而不用担心你可能会被枪杀或殴打。我无意冒犯我们的美国朋友，因为我在那里过得非常愉快。

Luv Muzik
British meat is not hormone injected, laced with antibiotics, chicken is not chlorine washed, our crops are not genetically modified.
British police are a million times better, they don't shoot people very often in fact almost never, and they don't stop people breathing.
Britain doesn't have mass shootings especially in schools.
British TV is far better.
Britain doesn't have tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires.
If you become seriously ill you don't have to worry if your insurance is up to date or if you have insurance at all.

英国人吃的肉不是注射过激素的，是不含抗生素的，鸡肉不是氯洗的，我们的作物不是转基因的。英国警察比美国警察强一百万倍，他们不会经常开枪，事实上几乎从来不会，他们也不会让人呼吸停止。英国没有大规模枪击事件，尤其是在学校。
英国电视要好得多。
英国没有龙卷风，飓风，地震，森林火灾。
如果你得了重病，你不必担心你的保险是否过期，或者你是否有保险。

Khan Norfolk
I'm sorry to say this but whenever anyone asks a question like this I start looking for the other signs of their inferiority complex so I can poke them and have a laugh.
OK, so the States started out as an English colony and got independence because we couldn't be bothered to exert ourselves..., get over it.
So what if most of the customs, fashions, language, art, government, etc. etc. etc. that are "American", have English sources, get over it.
So England had an empire and was accepted as a world leader for hundreds of years without screwing up too much but the States doesn't have an empire, has been a world leader for a few decades only and spends most of its time trying to unscrew its international mistakes, well, too bad...get over it.
The states has money, buddy, money isn't everything. You just wish you could live like we do without aggression, without fear, without unreasonable prejudice, with stable institutions...man I could go on for ages, but I won't, because I don't want to rub your nose in what you are missing out on by not being a Brit, and instead being a "colonial".
And if you take this seriously, re-read my first sentence.

我很抱歉这么说，但每当有人问这样的问题时，我就会开始寻找他们自卑情结的迹象，这样我就可以戳他们一下，逗他们一笑。好吧，美国一开始是英国的殖民地，之所以获得独立，是因为我们不愿费心去表现自己……，忘了它吧。所以，如果大多数美国的风俗、时尚、语言、艺术、政府等等都有英语来源，那又怎么样呢?英国曾有一个帝国，几百年来一直被公认为世界领袖，没有搞得太糟，但美国并没有帝国，只是几十年来一直是世界领袖，而且大部分时间都在试图纠正自己的国际错误，太糟糕了……美国有钱，伙计，钱不是万能的。你们只希望能像我们一样生活，没有侵略，没有恐惧，没有不合理的偏见，有稳定的制度。老兄，我还可以继续说下去，但我不想说，因为我不想让你知道，你不是英国人，而是一个“殖民地居民”。
如果你要认真的话，再读一遍我的第一句话。

Gord Willms
Are you kidding me? Just listen to a Brit. They can do a way better British accent than an American. In fact they pull off that accent better than anyone else in the world. It’s next to perfect. Ever listen to an American trying that. Ugh!
But how do they do it, you ask? And they do it so effortlessly. Hard to say, but it seems that they are pretty well born with it.

你在跟我开玩笑吧？听听英国人说话吧。他们的英国口音比美国口音好多了。事实上，他们的口音比世界上其他任何人都好，近乎完美。你听过美国人这么说话吗。啊!但你会问，他们是怎么做到的?而且他们做起来毫不费力。很难说，但他们似乎天生就有这种能力。

David Brigden
There are many things Britain does better than the US.
The major ones in my opinion are as follows:
Healthcare: No one in the UK is going to lose their home because they got ill.
Gun Control: In 2019, 73% of killings in the US were with guns, in Britain, 4%
Workers' Rights: In the US, employers can fire anyone at any time for no reason, and are not compelled to offer paid holidays. In the UK, workers have a right to a minimum number of paid days off, many employers grant more than the minimum. Financial help when sick or unemployed, and Brits enjoy job security that requires employers to pretty much jump through hoops to fire an employee.
Policing: In the UK police officer undergo a strict sextion criterea and undergo up to three months of intense training, the US employs thugs and give them guns. British police uphold the law, American police enforce it.
Education: No commentary is necessary here, it’s pretty much self-evident.
I’ll leave it there, I don’t want to get too patriotic or I may start getting the urge to put a unx Flag up outside my house.

英国在很多方面都比美国做得好。我认为主要有以下几点:
医疗保健:在英国，没有人会因为生病而失去他们的房子。
枪支管制:2019年，美国73%的杀人事件与枪支有关，英国为4%
工人的权利:在美国，雇主可以在任何时候毫无理由地解雇任何人，而且不会被迫提供带薪假期。
在英国，员工有权享受最低带薪天数，许多雇主给予的假期超过了最低带薪天数。生病或失业时可以获得经济援助，英国人享受工作保障，这要求雇主在解雇员工时几乎要经历重重困难。
警务:在英国，警察要经过严格的选拔标准，要经过长达三个月的强化训练;而美国则雇佣暴徒，并给他们枪支。英国警察维护法律，美国警察执行法律。
教育:这里不需要评论，这是不言自明的。
我就讲到这里吧，我不想太过爱国，否则我可能会想在我家门外挂一面英国国旗。
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Alexsandr Kallus
Although this is a ridiculous question, I’d like to share my personal experience on this.
Public transport, UK public transport may not be the best on the planet, but is far better than say US. They got buses, trams, underground, and trains that almost reach every corner of the island. Despite the low speed and sometimes obsolete vehicles, UK public transport at least allows me to travel around the whole nation without a car. In US, I will have to buy a car.
Public security. The worst case I’ve experienced in UK was someone blocked my way and asked for cash while in US, I’ve been robbed and possibly been followed before I noticed him.
Attitude towards Chinese. This is subjective, I admit in US, there are many nice people who are willing to make friend with me. But in UK, apart from some drunk guys, most UK people, especially the elderly and well-educated ones are really kind to me. I haven’t been harassed nor insulted in UK by now.

虽然这是一个很荒谬的问题，但我想在此分享一下我的个人经历。
1，公共交通，英国的公共交通可能不是世界上最好的，但比美国要好得多。他们有公共汽车、有轨电车、地铁和火车，几乎可以到达岛上的每个角落。尽管英国的交通工具速度很慢，有时还有些过时，但英国的公共交通工具至少可以让我在没有汽车的情况下环游全国。在美国，我将不得不买一辆车。
2，公共安全。我在英国经历过的最糟糕的情况是有人挡住了我的路，向我要现金，而在美国，我被抢劫的话，可能在我注意到他之前我就被跟踪了。
3，对中国人的态度。这是主观的，我承认在美国，有很多好人愿意和我交朋友。但是在英国，除了一些喝醉的家伙，大多数英国人，特别是老年人和受过良好教育的人对我都很好。到目前为止，我在英国没有被骚扰或侮辱过。

Ricki Sardana
Is there anything Britain does better than the United States?
The question should be “Is there anything a mother does better than her child? And the answer is maybe, probably many and the mother will be okay as she knows, it's her own creation afterall. But a mother is still a mother who tought the child what they know.
Do you realise, what’s the mother tongue of the United States is? Yes you guessed it right. It is indeed English, the most spoken language in the world. The language which is named after the country, England.
United states is known to be the most powerful democratic country in the world. Do you know who introduced democracy to the United states. Yes… It's the Great Britain.
I can go on and on about the very origin of the modern United states, rather than measuring it's strengths and weaknesses, But again why would I do that when the success of United states itself is an achivement of the Great Britain.
And by the way the last quiz - Do you know who has the strongest currency in the world? Lol keep guessing :)

英国有什么比美国做得更好的吗?
问题应该是“有什么事情是母亲比孩子做得更好的吗?”答案是可能有很多，母亲不在意，因为她知道这毕竟是她自己的创造。你知道美国的母语是什么吗?是的，你猜对了，确实是英语，世界上使用最多的语言。这是一种以英国命名的语言。美国被认为是世界上最强大的民主国家。你知道是谁把民主引入美国的吗?对，是英国。我可以继续谈论现代美国的起源,而不是衡量它的优点和弱点,但再说一次,为什么我要这么做,美国的成功本身就是伟大的英国的成就。
顺便说一下，最后一个小测验——你知道谁拥有世界上最强大的货币吗?哈哈，继续猜吧。

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I like being able to send my child to school without fear of her being shot with the rest of her classmates.
Also, despite huge problems at the moment, our healthcare.
And our police, even with current issues still far, far better as a police force than the US paramilitary thugs.
And our food standards.
And our cinema.
You go into space better than we do, but then you had a headstart, stealing technology from the UK (when you offer an exchange and then dont keep up your part of the bargain, that's theft) and snaffling the the best Nazi scientists.

我想能送我的孩子去上学，而不用担心她和她的同学们一起被枪杀。还有，尽管目前存在巨大的问题，我们的医疗保健也不错。还有我们的警察，即使当前还有问题，但作为一支警卫力量，仍然远远好于美国的准军事暴徒。还有我们的食品标准。还有我们的电影。你们进入太空这方面比我们做得好，但你们有一个领先优势，即从英国窃取技术(你们说交换，然后不遵守你的部分，这就是偷窃)，并抢走了最好的纳粹科学家。
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The easy answer is tea. You can get a quality cup of tea nearly anywhere in the UK, but it’s a real challenge to find one even in good restaurants in the US. Brits are also exceptionally good at comedy. Then there’s the NHS, which manages to be both better and worse than US health care at the same time.

最简单的答案是茶。在英国的任何地方，你都能喝到一杯高质量的茶，但在美国，即使是在好餐馆里，也很难找到一杯。英国人也特别擅长喜剧。还有英国国民健康保险制度(NHS)，与美国的医疗服务相比，它有好有差。

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As an American who spends a great deal of time in the UK, I recently had a problem which took me to the emergency room. Complete emergency treatment, which included blood work and tests, x-rays, and medication, was completely free. This is true to anyone from anywhere with any immigration status. I never even saw a bill, feel I got excellent treatment and didn’t even have to wait that long. Hospitalization is a different story, but free emergency care is something I think Britain does better than the U.S.

作为一个在英国呆了很长时间的美国人，我最近遇到了一个问题，被送进了急诊室。完全的紧急治疗，包括验血和检查、x光和药物治疗，都是完全免费的。这适用于任何地方的任何移民身份的任何人。我甚至没有看到账单，我觉得我得到了很好的治疗，甚至不需要等待那么长时间。住院治疗则是另一回事，但我认为英国在免费急救方面做得比美国好。

Michael Goble
Britain does not suffer from the massive inferiority complex that worries so many Americans, especially Trump. Other than that, I would say that Britain and Canada and Australia and most European countries do just about everything better than the United States. And we don’t feel the need to constantly compare ourselves to other countries.

很多美国人，尤其是特朗普，都有严重的自卑感，而英国人却没有。除此之外，我认为英国、加拿大、澳大利亚和大多数欧洲国家在任何方面都比美国做得好。我们不觉得有必要经常和其他国家比较。