The freedom to choose is not something unique to the USA. People in Canada, France, England, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Australia, Sweden, Iceland, Spain, Japan, and I should think a great many other places also have the freedom to choose, and they excercise that freedom every day of their lives. It would be good if American school children were made aware of that, I think, rather than growing up thinking that they are the only people on Earth who live in "freedom".

True freedom is the ability to think independently for oneself regardless of the continual pressures of social conformity, customs, traditions; and government, school, and media propaganda. How many Americans are truly free? How many people in the world are truly free? I think you would find that the truly free are in a rather small minority almost everywhere.

Most people don't think independently for themselves. They think as they have been told to think by the authority figures around them.

America may well be one of the least free developed countries in the sense that I am alluding to in those last 2 paragraphs, and therein lies the problem. I've lived in Canada and I've lived in the USA. I've seen the difference. Canada is a freer country when it comes to people's mental flexibility and their independence of thought...regardless of the hierarchical influences around them. Still, there's a lot of room for improvement in both Canada and the USA when it comes to that. Canadians also tend to conform and tend to think as they are told to think by the authority figures around them.