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  • the United States is the best country in the world in terms of economy, opportunity, military and technology.

  • It's the country I love the most and the one I wanna live and dying.

  • And it's the country everybody looks at for leadership.

  • But in our fascination with the American dream, we forget that the US has gotten a lot of things wrong and countries, like even developing ones, have managed to get some of them right.

  • That's why I went on a mission around the world to Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Japan and South Africa.

  • To show the things they got right while the US still gets wrong in the journey starts in the underdeveloped country off Zimbabwe.

  • I ran out of cash, e went toe all these banks to get cash and there is none left.

  • The Indians are not even working here in Zimbabwe.

  • The government screwed up the economy, but the people found a way around it.

  • Your phone.

  • This is my new wallet with e cash and it works better than my old one.

  • You could pay for parking with your phone Street vendors with your phone, highway vendors with your phone.

  • Do you take ankle cash on and even the homeless I helped with my phone.

  • That's incredible.

  • Good.

  • Thank you.

  • Bank to bank transfers here happened in a second.

  • Cash is no longer king in New York or even Japan.

  • Cash is still king and bank transfers take day.

  • In this underdeveloped country with a collapsed economy and a dysfunctional government, there are still lessons to be learned by the developed nations.

  • This wallet is amazing.

  • That's one minute.

  • See you tomorrow.

  • The US spends a lot of money on security, and it should.

  • But it could still be a dangerous place.

  • Sometimes gangs, crime and mass shootings.

  • Building a secure and safe community is a tough task, but to see a safe, secure country in real life.

  • For that you have to go outside of the United States to Japan.

  • Hi, I'm Ness.

  • No, you're not.

  • Fall.

  • Hi, I'm not.

  • Today's video is not about how beautiful Tokyo is.

  • It's actually about how safe this goddamn place is.

  • It's so safe in Tokyo that if you put your $1200 drawn bag in the middle of the street, no one will touch it.

  • In other countries, people think this bag will either get them super rich or bombed to death by someone that looks like me.

  • I'm sorry.

  • It's just the way it is.

  • It's so safe in Tokyo that you could just leave your bike unattended, leave your phone unattended and even put your money unattended in the middle of the street.

  • And no one will give a shit.

  • Maybe there was a little bit of an exaggeration.

  • Will I ever get robbed here?

  • Probably.

  • But crime is one less thing to think about here in Tokyo.

  • That's one minute.

  • See you tomorrow.

  • Next up, women there oftentimes underrepresented in countries around the world.

  • In the US, the Senate is 20% women, while women are half the population.

  • In the African country of Rwanda, that percentage is 64% the highest in the world.

  • Today's video is not about the sad history off Rwanda.

  • It's actually about how Rwandans bounced back from tragedy Onley.

  • 23 years ago, over one million people died and 300,000 women were raped when the WHO to attack the Tutsi and now there is no more Hutu or Tutsi.

  • There is just Rwandan women are on the rise in terms of women equality Rwanda is doing better than the U.

  • S.

  • There's even a woman minister of gender.

  • That's her.

  • In African Rwanda, technology is also on the rides.

  • Taken mixed software for police to force a low Mitchum Easa is catching water fees using technology.

  • Pity Watch, please, your motorbike automatically and this woman is manager.

  • The country of Rwanda should be known not for what it waas 23 years ago, but for what it will be 23 years from now.

  • That's one minute soothe.

  • Last story is not about a country.

  • It's about a person.

  • It's about someone that lives outside of the United States in South Africa.

  • But it's someone that I think his story you would appreciate meeting Po.

  • Hi, My name is simple.

  • I made this throw, but from French as I was walking down the street in Soweto, South Africa's largest township, I Sampo operating a robot that he built himself.

  • He would touch one of seven levers, and the robot would go up and down.

  • It would even lift things and move them.

  • The robot is made of discarded materials like the battery of an elevator and the motor off a drill machine on just took me two weeks to build.

  • This'll is a genius product built by a 20 year old kid with very little support on the only I'm the only one who's waking out of familial form.

  • If the same talent was found in another 20 year old kid in the US, they would probably be at Google.

  • But for now, you confined him po at the side of the street, waiting to be recognized.

  • Exactly.

  • All these talents, solutions and systems around the world can oftentimes be overlooked simply because they are not in the United States.

  • A cash free app in San Francisco would be valued at billions of dollars with no revenue.

  • I know because I used to work for one in Zimbabwe is similar.

  • App gets barely any news and makes more revenue.

  • The United States is truly amazing, and the American dream is really I'm living it.

  • But in the future, Mawr and Mawr developing countries will be developed and we should pay attention to them.

  • They say the United States is the best country in the world.

  • In reality, every country is the best country in the world.

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