What precisely was not true from my post?<p>Alcohol has a huge industry behind it in the USA.<p>And who bought Budweiser-creator Anheiser-Busch, one of the USA&#x27;s largest beer companies? InBev, based in Belgium.<p>Alcohol consumption per capita is higher in plenty of countries in Europe compared to the USA:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_alcohol...</a><p>Although I can&#x27;t find numbers on international marketing expenditures for alcohol, personal experience informs me that most pubs in Germany, and plenty in Ireland and Austria, have a sign from a beer company hanging outside the front. That&#x27;s actually something the USA doesn&#x27;t have; neon signs are in some pubs&#x27; windows, but not every single one like I&#x27;d see in Germany. That sign outside the bar is most definitely marketing, even if it&#x27;s less glitzy than American alcohol TV ads.<p>I then asked a question about why, and you answered - thank you! I didn&#x27;t know alcohol ads (do you mean on tv, in print, on the radio, online...?) were banned in the Netherlands.<p>I also must ask for clarification: because I can&#x27;t sense the tone with which yore typing these words, it seems like you&#x27;re using the word naive in a way that suggests you are simply disappointed that the USA is not behaving like your country. Am I interpreting that correctly?<p>Americans do think big when it comes to business... as do many other countries. The Forbes international 500 [1] has companies from all over, and the USA does not dominate. In fact, the Netherlands shares the number 3 slot with the UK. I hope you don&#x27;t naively think businesses want less success outside the USA; they may want less growth, though, but the Forbes top 10 global would seem to say otherwise.<p>Ambition for business is everywhere in the world, although the USA does indeed have its share of large companies.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fortune_Global_500" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fortune_Global_500</a>