16 Things America Does Better Than The United Kingdom

15. Reality Television

Overall, the UK has a higher success rate when it comes to pumping out good television (and knowing when to end it,) but one thing they'll never beat us at, however, is shaming their own people for the whole world to see. America's catalog of reality shows is so profitable, we can actually get away with shows about not throwing away garbage and storage auctions, two of the most mundane topics I could think of. Sure, the Brits have excellent screaming matches and hot-blooded tempers, but we can get all of that in more in one episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Arguably their best cooking show, Kitchen Nightmares, can't even be counted a win because we brought the show over here and made it even more ridiculous and addictive to watch.

14. Hip Hop

Taio Cruz is great and all, but mainstream hip hop is clearly defined by what makes it big in the States. Just look at how Drake left a teen drama in Canada to become an American rap artist (okay, so maybe that was an easy call). I'll grant the fact that the UK pretty much invented and perfected classical music and dubstep, but they can't compete with the urban genre that was created in the States. The problem is that the UK is just too eloquent, probably. Just look at how they describe hip hop in their own country:

...'UK rap' is a broad sonic church, encompassing anything made in Britain by musicians informed or inspired by hip-hop's possibilities, whose music is a response to the same stimuli that gave birth to rap in New York in the mid-Seventies. (The Times)

13. Tailgating

In the UK, getting wasted in a parking lot is typically looked on as common behaviour, and will usually be rewarded with some sort of anti-social community order. We're much better at making an event out of it. As you can imagine, the practice originated in America, and our obsession with eating unhealthy food and getting drunk has made it a requirement for pretty much every major sport you can imagine. But the UK still has fun before soccer games, as they prefer pubs over the back of their cars, which is probably a good thing considering the British invented binge drinking and soccer violence. The downside is that there are long lines for the food trucks outside the stadiums, and the food inside the stadium is usually limited (inedible) and overpriced.