So what have the Americans given us?

XERXES: The Internet?
REG: What?
XERXES: The Internet.
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: And the GPS.
LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the GPS, Reg. Remember how ships and vehicles used to get lost befor that?
REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the Internet and the GPS are two things that the Americans have done.
MATTHIAS: And the afforable car.
REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the afforable car. I mean, the afforable cars go without saying, don't they? But apart from the GPS, the Internet, and the afforable car--
COMMANDO: Green revolution.
XERXES: Electronics.
COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh...
COMMANDO #2: European Union.
COMMANDOS: Ohh...
REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO #1: And Coca Cola.
COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...
FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Americans left. Huh.
COMMANDO: Rock music.
LORETTA: And it's safe to speak your mind, Reg.
FRANCIS: Yeah, they certainly know how to write constitutions. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.
COMMANDOS: Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
REG: All right, but apart from the GPS, the electronics, European Union, Coca Cola, rock, green revolution, afforable car, the Internet, and democracy as a universal value, what have the Americans ever done for us?
XERXES: Ended the cold war, won WWII and WWI.
REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!

Note: for the non geeks, this is just a take on scene from Monty Python's "Life Of Brian".
Also, you can add to this list: The separation of church and state, the communication satellite, Wikipedia, Google, high-tech medicine, most of the cancer treatments used world wide, The Shawshank Redemption, plastics, the personal computer, the smartphone, even the telephone and the telegraph, equal right to Jews, George Gershwin, and in fact almost every aspect of what we think of as modern life.

Happy Birthday USA, may you have many others.

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