The Most Powerful Nation?
The United States has always been known to be the best, the strongest, unbeatable since before any of us can remember. This in fact whether it suprises you or not, is about to change. The United States of America is at a 0% increase in population right now, and the only thing that is keeping that statistic at 0% is immigration. Not only that, but we are destroying all natural resources, and are losing all sorts of resources everyday. While all this is happening, China has been doing the exact opposite. The chinese whether you believe it or not, are getting smarter, and are building themselves up to become the smartest country in the world. With this knowledge, who knows the possibilites. We have always known the Chinese and Japanese for their superior knowledge of electronics, but who knows the kind of power it could give them if they directed it towards national military. While all this would be quite shocking to us, it has already started, and I believe it is something that we should all be aware of. The United States will not be the biggest, best, most powerful nation for long. I happened to read a lot of this information out of a book. I am going to put a link on here of the book online if you would like to see the book. If you click it it will allow you to read some of the book online I believe. The book is called The World Is Flat
posted by Anonymous @ 2/08/2006 09:14:00 PM
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The name of the book sounds like "The World is Flat". My grandpa was telling me about this book a couple months ago and I found the subject interesting before even entering College Geography.
I think it is true that right now other countries are educating their children well and perhaps we need to step up our standards a bit. In Government we just discussed how the president cut the education budget when he was just in Minnesota to promote not more than a week ago. Kind of a blow to staying competitive in an educational sense when the budget was just cut.
I also attended a conference put on by the Department of Education last quarter in St. Cloud and we discussed this very topic, keeping our kids in America ahead of the world. We discussed how the American job market is becoming a foreign job market and how someday we will not only compete with other people in the United States for jobs, but with people all over the world. It's an interesting subject. I have that book sitting on my shelf at home, perhaps it would be a good read.
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