In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore scrutinizes American policies and traditions and compares them to other countries. He travels to Italy, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland where he "takes" successful tactics the countries have applied to their education, welfare, etc to inform viewers of the new ways the United States can approve. In Italy he address the idea of the working and labor conditions in the U.S. and how Italy's mindset of a workers health being valued more than a profit should be applied. Next in France, school meals were deemed healthier and were made more carefully. Also, sexual education did not carry an emphasis of abstinence like it does in the U.S., but French sexual education teaches teenagers safe practice. Moore suggests this cold help the high teen pregnancy rates in the U.S. Slovenia undergraduate students are not burdened with the debt of their schooling like in the United States. Moore ridicules the importance of college and the high cost of tuition. He believes more citizens would benefit from free college and is evident to be necessary for a future in America. Like Germany, the United States has an embarrassing and harsh history but their students exposure to the material differs in the two countries. Germany does not try to cover the Holocaust and Hitler, but it is taught to its fullest extent in school because the history of the country is very important to them. Without discussing and analyzing past decisions and actions of elites may cause history to repeat in some ways. In the United States, topics such as slavery are discussed but details are hidden to shield the students. Moore believes a more realistic education of huge topics such as history may prevent history from repeating such as the constant hate crimes committed in America. Then, Moore traveled to Portugal to scrutinize their universal healthcare and abolition of the death penalty. Universal healthcare is heavily debated in the U.S. but Portugal has benefited from this policy and their citizens are some of the healthiest. Norway's prison system was also explored by Moore which treated their prisoners more humanely than the United States and rehabilitation is more important than punishment. Lastly, Moore visited Tunisia and Iceland where women have more equality and rights. In Tunisia, women have the right to abortion and prenatal care is more accessible. Women have a right to choose and to their body than in the U.S. In Iceland, more women are leaders than in the U.S. which prevents male bias and a larger representative to women. Women in the United States have only experienced male presidents which are considered their representatives, but can never understand topics such as female contraception, prenatal care, and abortion. In conclusion, Moore traveled to several countries to debate the legitimacy of the American dream and new ideas for progress in large debated topics in the United States.
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