Since this
is a thread where you post things that aren't interesting...
Kanye West wrote:
mathexpert9981 wrote:
"murica's still has the largest economy (consequently, GDP)
no
GDPIncomeGDP, per person employedKanye West wrote:
mathexpert9981 wrote:
leads the world in culture
what?
3 examples:
LiteratureNathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry David Thoreau have all established a distinctive American literary voice in the middle of the nineteenth century. In addition, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, Steven King are major influences, and eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, including John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neil, Pearl S. Buck, T.S. Eliot and Sinclair Lewis. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel laureate, is often named as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
MusicAmerican music styles and influences (such as country, jazz, rock and roll, rock, hip-hop, rap) and music based on it can/could be heard all over the world. American musicians include Eminem, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Mariah Carey, Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, Kurt Cobain, Whitney Houston, Jim Morrison, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Merle Haggard, among many others.
CuisineThe cuisine of the United States is extremely diverse, owing to the vastness of the continent, the relatively large population (1/3 of a billion people) and the number of native and immigrant influences. Different regions of the United States have their own cuisine and styles of cooking. The state of Louisiana, for example, is known for its Cajun and Creole cooking. Cajun and Creole cooking are influenced by French, Acadian, and Haitian cooking, although the dishes themselves are original and unique. In return, these types of food can be seen and eaten all over the world.
Kanye West wrote:
mathexpert9981 wrote:
politics
hell no
American politics have the potential to affect the entire world, due to it's central position in the world today. This can be seen simply just by asking anybody at random what the leader of say, Germany, China, or Japan is. It is likely that they won't know, but basically the entire world knows that the President of the Unite States is Obama. While it's easy to dismiss this as a result of news networks or American jingoism, it truly attests to the widespread influence the US has. Another example is (for better or worse) the middle east. The Iraq/Afghanistan war (basically the war on terror as a whole) has affected the middle east in many ways, both positively and negatively. Even though admittedly I'm against these wars, again, it's another example of the influence that the US has.
Kanye West wrote:
mathexpert9981 wrote:
I doubt China, Japan, or Germany will surpass USA any time soon.
they already have
In terms of goods, Japan at its peak managed less than half of the US.
China has an extremely high manufacturing potential, but as we all know their products are generally low quality. In addition,
factory workers' conditions are very poor. When their products are of a high standard, they are often developed in the US - case in point, Apple's iPhone are designed in the US, then mass produced in China. China's social policies are way behind the US, and in return this slows their economic progress. In addition, the scarce natural resources, one child policy, and most importantly, the culture of innovation vs culture of obedience are major factors that go into play when even considering the idea that China will surpass the US in the
near future.
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I'd like to finish by reiterating what I said on my previous post. Yeah every country has its faults (which, I think reflects the individual and humanity in general on a greater scale) but I wish more would do their research before jumping to conclusions that they hear in bars during election season while drunk. Yeah, there are a lot of big, big problems in America e.g. the industrial-military complex, civil liberties, censorship, the war on terror, the war on drugs, etc etc. However, that doesn't mean that America doesn't have anything going for it whatsoever.