The USA offers some of the worlds best academic institutions and it's college/university system is equal to that of Australia, New Zealand and the UK, making it worlds best. All the "Americans" I have met professionally are perfectly normal, well educated, well read and morally sound individuals. Same goes for the regular users on here (I hate to admit) except for madmex and spazzi. The stereotype USA person is unfortunately also true, because education is a user pays system over there. Comics like Tin Tin were a portal to the rest of the world for my fathers and grandfathers generations, comics from the USA are just cartoons. Nothing is in the same class as Tin Tin. This cannot be evaluated at this point in time, it can only be judged in it's own time. Blah blah, you get the point?