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World's Best

When you surf the various television channels, when you look up thousands of advertisements, when you see any of the American sports championships - what is the one thing that has stood out from the rest of the glitz and glamor? The fact that anything "American" is the "World's Best". The 2 words that I am trying to equate here are America = World.

Simple, when a San Antonio Spurs or a Los Angeles Lakers basketball team wins the NATIONAL basketball association's championship trophy, analysts and the media are pouring out their affection calling them World Champions. America did not even win the basketball gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Argentina did. Or for that matter, when a New England Patriots or an Indianapolis Colts football team wins the NATIONAL football league's Superbowl, analysts and the media are praising these teams calling them what else....World Champions. No one plays American football outside the US and hence "arguably" they are the WORLD CHAMPIONS.

Take Tru-Tv for example, whenever the show "World's most shocking videos" are on air, for courtesy they will have couple of videos at the max from around the planet, while majority of the "shocks" are provided by the "we make up the world Americans". Another example of narcissism would be any of the modern wonders programme on Discovery channel (bridges, buildings, monuments etc.). You get the same dosage of America = World's Best.

I have been living here for close to 6 years now and I have been hearing all these for all this while. What do you think about this hype and the beauty nest that America has created for itself? Are you with the World's Best or are you part of the World's rest?

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