Quote:
|
Originally Posted by DaFace
The book "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman paints a pretty dim future in terms of America's domination of the world. Basically, we have had all the opportunities available to us for years, so our education system has become lazy. Students simply aren't motivated to challenge themselves as much. Meanwhile, other countries like China have been working their asses off just to try and survive. Now that they are getting opportunities via the worldwide availability and the internet, there are tons of extremely knowledgeable and extremely motivated individuals coming out of those countries. Chances are, our reign as the dominant nation of the world will be over in a decade or less.
|
Ok wiseguy, one question, who invented the Internet? We did.
This is the same crap that people spout whenever they feel we are not getting loved internationally. Check out some of the Newsweek covers from the 70's. Only then the issues were The Soviets and Western Europe and fear of the Japanese.
PS - Thomas Friedman is a great writer and Journalist but he's also a guilt ridden, bed wetting liberal who feels bad that the US is a world leader