Yes, Hollywood has got big for multiple reasons and so people from around the world go work there. The same for the Canadian or the British when they go there. The market is there. Why Hollywood got big in the first place is another story.

I wouldn't say that Canada is dominated by US culture, but I'd say that US media exports are just huge in Canada due to proximity and NAFTA. American culture doesn't dominate Canadians. Canadians, at least in the most populated regions, are much more "British-like", as Australians in some aspects, and historically Canada has been British Empire in North America for so long that they kept adopting whatever came from London.

Even though US entertainment like Hollywood and games are huge in Canada, UK entertainment is also quite big such as BBC productions and British programs overall. It's much more common to see Canadians that enjoy British stuff than Americans as well as a good amount of UK stuff on the Canadian TV. In addition to that, about Hollywood, the entertainment that comes from it is so huge that it's just bigger than many other countries own media industries. I'd say that cinema is basically American everywhere and video games are basic American/Japanese. They're so big that there's quite no point in any other country trying to replicate and that also applies to Canada.

UK, as an English speaking nation, obviously is an exception. Although UK speaks English, they don't quite need to consume US media exports as much, because UK has its own very long book/films/program/entertainment tradition, at least since Shakespeare.

Let’s go over freedom for a second since you don’t live here obiviously wit your ignorant statements. Red and brown lies used by Democrat party to keep non whites in ghettos, if you live by the constitution, as do I, you understand that isn’t a skin thing it’s a respect your fellow man thing. Women most women choose what makes them happy i. e. pursuit of happiness through biological needs. Just because cuck men don’t want to act like real men and do what’s right we have women playing both roles in today’s society thus we have a lot angry feminists. Non Christians hate Christians therefore they don’t allow or want freedom Christians so their beliefs aren’t accepted here Homosexuals have freedom some just want to be disrespectful in public and get called out on it 

Nothing says "my number one belief is FREEDOM OF CHOICE" like expressing disbelief that Thoughtcrime is permissible.  

Thanks for sharing that Freudian Slip with us; now we know how you really feel about freedom.  

Also it is much easier to have high índex on homogene population, small country inland and people. The size of usa make a lot of room for variation. 

I'm not American, but it seems like the individual states have more control over their own development than most other countries, so you can actually see social experiments playing out from one state to the next. From the outside, it looks like some states do well and others don't. Maybe the states that aren't doing well in terms of standards of living should implement policies of the states that are doing well?

This is correct, but there are a multitude of factors why some states can do well (ports, tourism, access to natural resources) where others have to get creative to be appealing and succeed.

I wouldn't consider them a first world country in the same way as Western Europe or Japan, but they're not a quite a third world country despite having a lot of third-worldish areas; US ghettos make EU so-called "No Go zones" look like a picnic. The US is definitely drifting into the second world sphere (Russia) very rapidly though. They're also regressing from an Atomic/Information aged nation back into an industrial era state.

As far as a developed nation, I would say those include only those nations which have progressed ahead of the Industrial era, and are primarily in late Atomic/Information age settings. So not countries who want to be coal dependent and are against science and technology.

From what I gather, New England, New York, California, and Cascadia are all fairly first-world - but the "mid-west" and the south/Texas are more like third world countries.

So on one hand you have this, which is obviously first world:

And on the other you have this, which looks like a poor African country or Bosnia during war times - so somewhere between 2nd and 3rd world:

America is a fake developed nation. You only have access to the best care in the world if you're born into the 1%.

For everyone else, it's hope to get a good job that help you make ends meet, if not, for you, it's worlds most famous 3rd world country. Notice how in the US, there's a staggering increase of working people that literally have to live on the streets.

I think the irony of it all is that a lot of the wealthier/developed parts of the US are saying - "We want to develop the whole country." and the very people they're trying to help are complaining about it... and not because they want to remain undeveloped but because they are SO concerned for the wealthy people who will be losing money as a result.

But I think it's more like "Ah dun want dem godless libertard commy lefty fascists democratic folk screwing everyone over to get heavily taxed, this is 'Merica; and one day ah might be one of them people screwing over everyone else like mah family has been fer genrations! Reckon me arse dat! Lets vote in Jaysus reborn Donald Trump to faght the great antaiChrast Obama... that sounds like Osama. YEAH! 'Merica's gone be great! Reckon."

Dracula was written by an Irish author.