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People Break Down Which Practices The United States Needs To Adopt From Other Countries

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We can all agree that there is something to appreciate about every country in the world, but there are arguably some countries that appear to have their ducks more consistently and happily in a row than others.

While it would be easy to let pride get in the way and continue to do things the same way, the more productive thing would be to learn from the countries who have figured out a better way to do certain things, whether it's healthcare, food banks, or other services.


Reflecting on the United States, Redditor Blinds**thead asked:

"What is one thing the USA should adopt from some other country?"

Introductions to Alcohol

"Swedish drinking laws. If I remember correctly, you can purchase alcohol below 5% at age 18, and be served liquor in bars (so the bartender can control the amount being served)."

"Seems like a smarter way to introduce kids to alcohol rather than opening the floodgates at 21."

- underhandfranky

Taxes to Approve

"Automated taxes."

"I've never done them but they seem complicated and stress my parents out, so I just know I'll f**k mine up and end up in stupid jail, lol (laughing out loud)."

"Just send me something to sign, please!"

- teenage-nightmare

Societal Improvement

"A prison system that focuses on rehabilitation instead of punishment. Many countries have been successful with this saving literally billions of dollars and cutting down on crime."

- LtRecore

Universal School Lunches

​"Universal school lunches. It is embarrassing that we do not have folks cooking lunches for students from scratch and that it is not provided for free to all students."

"Do you want to bring your own lunch? Great, but you can also have the free hot lunch that looks homemade, not pizza squares, canned veggies, a slice of fruit, and 3 oz of milk."

"Kids shouldn't be going into debt for lunch. We're probably wealthy enough that our food waste alone would be sufficient, if captured magically, to feed every kid in the United States three proper meals per day."

"Also walkable cities and above-ground monorail systems."

- radiantpenguin991

Relieving Homelessness

"Finland has recently ended homelessness by just allowing people to live in small apartments without any preconditions, and four out of five of them make their way back to a stable life."

"It's also cheaper than allowing people to be homeless."

- littleMAHER1

Period.

"Universal healthcare."

- fastal_12147

Foster Care Assistance

"It would be nice to also eliminate the fees foster parents pay for general registration, classes, and social services related to fostering or adoption."

"And also eliminate trying to recoup costs by billing parents whose children have been placed in foster care."

- hawtpahtadah

Longer Paid Family Leave

"I was SUPER blessed to get 12 weeks fully pay. But that’s not enough time. Putting the emotional aspect aside, I’ve returned to work functioning on four to five hours of sleep a night, and my productivity and cognitive abilities are greatly handicapped."

"My three-month-old son can’t even hold his head up or sit, let alone talk to tell me if anything’s wrong, and he’s placed in the care of someone else from 7:15 am to 5:15 pm. Doesn’t seem healthy for mother or child."

- tealpineapple456

Bathroom Upgrades

"The fact that our toilets don't have bidets and that at public restrooms the gap between the doors is massive, are both disgusting. Our whole bathroom situation is messed up."

- darksix

Having a Siesta

"According to Dr. Andrew Huberman, whether you eat lunch or not, everyone requires a rest midday."

- Justhere_2468

Tax Included in the Price

"Man, I had such a hard time with this when I visited America. Maths in my head is not my forte and I’m so used to looking at prices and expecting that to just be the price."

"I don’t get why you wouldn’t just add in the tax to the price. No one wants to do math unnecessarily. I mean, we don’t even tip in Australia so I don’t even need to work that out."

- Cookie_Wife

Raising Multilingual Children

"Teaching a foreign language to young students in public schools (ie 5yrs, k-5) when the propensity to learn the language quickly is maximum."

- zenjen22

Clean Public Restrooms

"The clean restrooms in Japan were amazing. I never had to clean a toilet seat to put my young kids on it. In the states? Near every time. People here just don’t care about the ‘we’ when it comes to restrooms."

- NoodlesAreAmazing

Separate Work and Healthcare

"Decent healthcare that isn't tied to your job. Other countries all over the world have figured out different ways to do this, so why can't we? (I know, corporations own politicians.)"

"I'm not an expert, but I'm guessing it would destabilize a bunch of industries in the near term. But I wonder if long-term, it would create so much new innovation since people would be unafraid to lose their health benefits to leave their stable but s**tty corporate jobs to start new ventures."

- michiman

Designated Drivers on the Go

"In Japan, there is a service that you can call 24 hours per day that will come with two drivers and one car. One driver drives you and your car home, and the other follows in their car to pick up the driver that took you home with your car. No DUI, etc."

"It's actually really affordable there. No need to get an uber home that night and then an uber back the next day when you are hungover only to find out you have a million parking tickets or your car got towed."

- Visual_Sport_950

Though there are positives to every country, it would be so cool to see each country be more open-minded about adopting the positives of other countries.

If a country is doing something better than another, the best thing for the citizens would be to take some notes, rather than let their pride do the talking.

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