A recent study has shown that out of thirty industrialized nations America is ranked twenty fourth. if we are not as well educated than are rivals, how are we to stay as a superpower that can contend with countries such as China?
By the use of the word 'industrialised' that's not surprising. Globalisation and deindustrialisation means the US and other similar nations have lost a lot of their productive capacity for tangible goods. Although, behaviourist economics (something I'm not a huge fan of) has shown that richer nations have lost their comparative advantage over developing nations in service industries because there is so much plenty, there is apathy, thus the economies' capacity to produce, may, in the long run, disappear altogether. It's certainly an interesting theory, not sure I agree with all of it though.
By the use of the word 'industrialised' that's not surprising. Globalisation and deindustrialisation means the US and other similar nations have lost a lot of their productive capacity for tangible goods. Although, behaviourist economics (something I'm not a huge fan of) has shown that richer nations have lost their comparative advantage over developing nations in service industries because there is so much plenty, there is apathy, thus the economies' capacity to produce, may, in the long run, disappear altogether. It's certainly an interesting theory, not sure I agree with all of it though.
On the contrary, I believe Hitler was rather indeed a man of wisdom
America has the second-largest standing army (after the ironically named People's Liberation Army) and the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. These facts alone qualify the US as a super-power to some degree.
no no i gotta agree with firefly here... or what he was talking about. The fact is, us as a generation (in north america) have become so technically advanced that we no longer have a care for school, but instead getting new games to play, or spending days on end playing games, getting new things to play, buying bigger and btr cars... Stuff we find pleasure in.. This of course takes our time from school which almost all of us hate anyways.. I must admit, i'd rather chill with my gf at a party, then have a bunch of papers to write that are due the next day... And thats another point too... We have become a nation which thrives upon relationships... Now we have grade 6's having relationshops, getting to the odd point of far past 1st base, but a little less than 2nd. With both relationships and new technology causing us to turn away from education, our nations could very well turn into that of a non power nation
Personally, I believe that I would have to see the article and learn more about the study before I could have a definite opinion on this. I do believe that America is losing power, though.
In education, we've never been near the top. However, in everything else, we're very close to the top or at the top. Education alone doesn't have anything to do with a country being a superpower. Nor does military might or economical strength, it's a combination of these facts that make a superpower.
Kids in China and Korea are told they will only get out of slums if they go to America and make money. They are motivated from their early years to succeed and do. Americans kids think they have it made just because their parents make money. We aren't serous enough about he value of education and need to be.
Hey, i'm in Nanning China now. I have an English and Switzerland friend here.
America and England are superpower but also not a good place to live, too many problems, people don't get along and don't want to know each other. Is it really worth it to be superpower? what superpower means to yourself?
Us Americans may be stubborn with education at the moment but, people fear us. Our army is...well... large. So if someway somehow we can NOT be ignorant we should move up through the ranking countries.
