<human>: Reason I ask: With some of the threads today on what others do not understand about the U.S., or misconceptions people have about the U.S. and other countries, I was reminded of a time a few years back: My friends and I were visiting Amsterdam and Munich for a week (yay Oktoberfest!) and on the night train from AMS to Munich, we were throwing back some Heineken and talking to a group of Australians who were doing a 6 months backpack around the world trip (insanely cool thing to do!). They mentioned next stop was Canada, and we asked where in the U.S. they were going - they were not. None had been, but they felt they could get all the NorthAmerican culture they needed by seeing Toronto and Montreal, as "American gave the world jazz and hamburgers and not much else - the country just refined lots of things ideas other countries your people came from invented". Someone probably then made a dingo eating your baby joke. Awesome people, and maybe they just were giving us some shit, but, it got my friends and I thinking about the topic, as we encountered that point of view somewhat frequently. We came (somewhat drunkenly) to this list in around a minute:

*jazz

*the American Style Hamburger and french fries

*Rock and Roll

*The Internet

*The modern telephone

*Modern electrical systems powering homes and buildings

*The transistor

*The MRI

*Hip-Hop/Rap

*the electric guitar

We knew there were many more, and we realized too that there are many misconceptions of where food/arts/technologies really came from (i.e., one person invents the basic form, and a group in an other country gets credit because they made it mainstream, or perfected the idea).

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<bot>: So Reddit: What things did your country contribute to the world that people often forget, or is attributed to somewhere else falsely?