Depends on what you value indeed. As a European, I don't feel at all behind the USA. Even less so since a few years, since I see all the very-USA-specific stu

Depends on what you value indeed. As a European, I don't feel at all behind the USA. Even less so since a few years, since I see all the very-USA-specific stuff that's been fed to us as "universal", while it was actually more because most of the production/distribution/media means were sourced from there. Exceptionalism is its own curse.