I'm a "they", and no we don't all want to be in the USA.

In fact, many of us are exactly as hubristic about our nations' popularity as you seem to be about the popularity of the US.

Before I left the UK (for Germany), I encountered people who seemed absolutely convinced that all 8 billion humans would move to the small, moist, sheep-filled rock if not for even stronger enforcement of immigration policies.

The US may be physically larger than the UK, but no, the world doesn't want to move to you. We don't want to regularly share the road with what are, by our standards, monster trucks; nor do we want the 2nd; nor strip malls; nor the nuclear arsenal. Many of us have our own alternatives to Mount Rushmore, to the Statue of Liberty, etc., and don't really care about yours.

Quite a lot don't care for the language as spoken and written in the USA, and for a long time that has even included British people, "two nations divided by a common language".

Do you realize that half of India would move to the USA if they could and turn this place into a third world country. Isn't that obvious?

नहीं, सर्वे भी देख लो

> In 2025, 15% of adults worldwide who say they would like to move permanently to another country name the U.S. as their preferred destination

and eyeballing the graphs, only about 10% of residents of Asian countries have any desire to move at all.

Love the amount of nuanced thinking and deep analysis that went into that comment

just as much thought that has gone into people who positioned the opposite in the comments like that we suck and we should feel bad. it's just the opposite, we are great and we do great things, and people wish to participate in our greatness.

there is good and bad, i believe we are much more good and it's exactly why there is a wait list for entry longer than anyone's list of political grievances that boil down to mostly hyperbole with a short list of few real concerns

"even though I beat my wife, I know, deep down, she wants to be here; why else would she always come back"

such an interesting perspective.

Random person born in random country is the wife in this metaphor? Sounds like a stalker.