Today we will discuss the things that Canda does that is better than the USA. 10 Ways Canada is Definitely Better Than America. Let’s start.
10. Education
The U.S. is actually incredibly generous on educational funding. They spend around seven hundred billion dollars a year on primary and secondary education. The U.S. also commits the most funding per pupil in the world dedicating $16,000 to educating each student up from college. That’s more than Canada at around thirteen thousand dollars and way more than the global average of ten thousand dollars. The problem though is that funding isn’t translating into success according to the program for International Student Assessment.
Canadian youth are 4.8% better, it’s reading 8.2 percent better, math and 5.4 percent better at science than Americans. So what’s the problem well diagnosing any definitive simple solution is hard. One reason could be that in Canada teaching is seen as a more valuable career. Teachers are paid more meaning that the role is more attractive to higher educated university graduates. Meanwhile, in the U.S. the low pay and long hours mean becoming a teacher doesn’t appeal to as many graduates who have more alternative career choices than ever.
9. Vacation
America has some of the most beautiful tourist destinations in the world the Grand Canyon Bourbon Street. The world’s largest ball of twine with such a land of incomparable beauty stretched out before them. It’s a shame that most Americans will never get to see it, unlike most countries that have mandatory minimum holiday days. US government doesn’t link companies offer any holiday. On the other hand in Canada the minimum varies by the province in some it’s ten in others it’s 20.
Most American companies do voluntarily offer some holiday but usually only around 10 days for newer employees. On average an American has to work at a company for 20 years to earn an increase hard a packet that reaches 20 days. Because of a culture that encourages always being at the office even though it’s way less efficient than allowing a point to take breaks. The majority of Americans don’t use all their limited holiday days.
8. International Diplomacy
Canada is statistically the most beloved country in the world in the U.S. not so much the reputation Institute tracks. The International opinion felt towards countries for six years between 2011 and 2017. Canada came out on top with a positive opinion consistently in the eighty percent region. The US meanwhile frequently has around fifty to sixty percent positive responses. That means the U.S. is still broadly liked but they aren’t nearly as popular as their likable neighbor to the north. What’s more, the US has never topped that chart now admittedly Canada slipped into seventh place in 2018. The first time it’s been out of first or second place since 2011 but with a 79 percent positive opinion. The world still loves Canada more than the U.S.
7. Ice Hockey
The NHL is increasingly devolved into UFC on ice but it still hasn’t stopped the sport remaining the closest thing. Canada has for real national religion mainly because watching people beat each other up and ice its kind of great now. It’s worth mentioning that a Canadian team hasn’t won the Stanley Cup in 25 years. That’s because so many of the country’s best players go stateside for a bigger paycheck across the NHL. 50% of players are Canadian born and bred as opposed to only 25% from the US. Whenever the Canadian players have come back to play for their homeland like for the Winter Olympics. It becomes clear how commanding the country is, Canada has absolutely dominated the Olympic ice hockey taking only cold 13 times the US only three.
6. The American Dream
America is famously the land of opportunity you can come to the US with nothing. If you’re willing to work hard you can pull yourself up and claim your riches. This idea of the self-made man is a huge part of the American mythos and understandably. The problem is that the US has relatively weak social mobility.
According to Economist Americans have a 7.6 percent chance of moving from the bottom paper burners to the top fear. Canada nearly doubles that with 13.5 percent. Similarly, fewer of the American rich will fall out of the top to make way for new blood. 61 percent of US citizens born to parents and the top two-fifths of income will remain there as opposed to 52 percent of Canadians. It’s weird to say but it’s true if you want the American Dream to go to Canada.
5. Health Care
Canadians on average live longer than Americans. The air quality is higher in Canada they eat less and the northern nation is marketing less violent. The only reason Canadians out with their neighbors to the south. Canucks also enjoy universal health care although some specific procedures and treatments need to be paid for. Health care is free at the point of need that means Canadian citizens are free to combat any illnesses. They face early on without having to worry about the cost in the U.S. Though 70% of all bankruptcies are caused by health care bills. Considering the quality of life improvement of not having to worry whether or not you can afford to keep running alive. This is a way in which Canada clearly outstrips the U.S.
4. Manage Its Debt
Canada spends more on big government programs like health care than the US. Critics of that approach would argue that such government largesse comes at a price of higher taxes, ethanol, personal liberty and plummeting. There’s no debate to be had over Canada in America’s debt. The U.S. runs on an annual deficit of nine hundred eighty-five billion dollars a year. Canada runs on an annual deficit of nineteen point four billion dollars a year. Obviously, that’s massively skewed by the population difference but even factoring for that u.s. accumulates more debt per citizen than Canada. America’s overspending averages out to $3,000 per citizen that’s six times and $500 per citizen debt Canada built up annually. The US isn’t opposed to spending outside its means it built up more debt every year than Canada if only there was some way they could cut spending.
3. Lower Obesity
If there’s one area in which the US can definitely outdo everyone else it’s eating on any given day. More than a third of Americans will eat fast food that’s according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Eighty-four point eight million Americans commit to shoveling Baconator cheese whiz and fret. I mean fries every single day with that kind of commendable commitment to cardiac season cuisine. It’s not surprising that the U.S. leads the developed world for obesity. Although we should be fair and point out that American obesity rates are still way lower than nearly every Pacific island according to a survey by The Lancet.
There are 78 million obese Americans that means 38 percent of their population is obese and nearly three-quarters of American men are at least overweight. Canada meanwhile has a 25 percent obesity rate that’s not great and still 38 in the world. Another 13 percent of Canadians would have to do some serious eating just to catch up with the old US. Then again maybe just because the US has tex-mex deep-dish pizza and Kansas barbecue. Whereas Canada’s national dish looks like a pigeon took a dump on soggy chips.
2. Safety
Both America and Canada allow you to grab a Garmin and go blast some moose. Why do guns and violence and to be a much bigger issue in the US? Well while guns are legal in both nations Canada has far more restrictive regulations of firearms. In the US the guns are still available but processes like background checks prevent the most dangerous people from getting their hands on them. This leads to Canada having barely a third of the gun crime that America faces and guns on. The only way in which Canada is safer in u.s. either the American murder rate is four times that of Canada’s rate of assault and burglary is also lower in Canada.
1.Happiness
We’ve already covered how Canadians are healthier more well-rested and safer than Americans and with all that going for them. Perhaps it’s no surprise that Canadians are also happier according to the 2019 World Happiness index. The people of Canada are an average of two ninths most upbeat population on earth. Americans, on the other hand, come in at 19 that wasn’t an anomaly either. The people of Canada are routinely ranked in the top happiest national populations on the planet.
Sometimes reaching as high as the third place behind Norway and Sweden. A similar study the world happiness report had citizens of every nation ranked their happiness out of ten. Canadians have an average of seven points seven out of ten to be fair. Americans were fairly happy to respond with an average of seven out of ten. Still, it seems you’re more likely to smile if you’re a Canadian than an America.
