I seriously doubt you can find examples of countries outside the US where studying a non-specific subject with a lot of broad distribution requirements is norma

I seriously doubt you can find examples of countries outside the US where studying a non-specific subject with a lot of broad distribution requirements is normal. I know for a fact that it is not common in the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Serbia, or Russia. I will concede that I'm not too sure what the situation is like outside of Europe.