Why most American's pay no attention to issues in other Nations.

As I have said before, the US does not need the world...The World needs the US and our demand for goods...Can we survive without imports from China, India and other countries...Hell yes. What would happen to their economies if we stopped buying their goods, can you say sink. The US can produce everything that is imported, would it cost more, yes...Would it produce more jobs. yes.

 

Actually, my ex-wife's family lived in Prairieville from 1984 to 2001. Then they moved to Denham Springs. I used to love going to Prairieville for holidays.

 

You seem to want to ignore the fact that the US makes most of those countries poor to begin with.....

 

Really?

HOW exactly?

AA

 

If you are not smart enough to already know that, you are really not worth enlightening...

 

Oh...I see.

You make a claim but cannot produce evidence to back it so you blame other's of ignorance.

LOL!!

Bit of advice.....you will lose badly....in any head to head debate with me on this issue.

Badly.

AA

 

Have you ever heard of the United Fruit Company? What was the strategic military importance of Viet Nam?
What is the purpose of the US economic warfare against the BRICS?
Answer these questions correctly and you will show you are worthy of engaging in debate.

 

As if I consider you worthy of debate considering your lack of knowledge specific to these issues.

But....I will throw you a bone and discuss BRICS.

Understand this.....this trade organization is....TINY.

And I mean really small.

The United States is the predominant trading nation on the planet and BRICS does not come close to equaling the economies of just a few large U.S. States.

California alone has a much larger economy than all of Russia.

Brazil is an up and comer but the Brazilian's have deep trade ties to the United States.

The entire Chinese Economy is completely dependent upon export sales to the United States and the U.S. could cause the complete collapse of the Chinese economy by just refusing all incoming Chinese exports.

The Chinese economy would collapse in a WEEK if we did this.

I have several relatives who died in Nam so I would prefer not to discuss it.

As far as the United Fruit Company this is back in the early 20th century and has no hold upon effecting current day nations.

AA

 

As I thought, you are ignorant of the facts and not qualified to debate the subject...

 

You are too funny!!!

You are trying to use the actions of the United Fruit Company in Central and South America as evidence to your claims???

That happened in the early and up to the mid 20th century!!!!

GROW UP!!!

AA

 

We do not treat education (secondary education) with the same reverence and respect as other countries do, especially Germany, Great Britain, South Korea, Japan, and China. That is problem number one. Problem number two is that there are too many parents who want to use school as a surrogate parent for their kids and that has to stop. Parenting should be done at home, not at school for most cases.

 

We live in a world that is getting smaller and smaller each day through the development and invention of technology. We are also becoming more and more interconnected with each other, and no ocean or pond is going to be that shield that it once was.

 

I have the answer. Because we just don't give a (*)(*)(*)(*).

 

For a long time, the U.S. was the only country whose domestic events had far reaching effects throughout the world.

 

I personally knew a lot more than my High School teachers but there was a few teachers I did enjoy.

I am highly proficient in advanced mathematics, biology and physics as well I enjoyed history especially ancient history BUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME.....my logic based brain refused to accept the idiot rules of spelling the English Language such as i before e except after c...sometimes.

College was different but I still had issues with Professors expounding their opinions when they could not be founded.

So....I did my own thing.

AA

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Well...that is pretty much still true.

I don't know many American's who pay much attention to elections in other nations.

AA

 

Might be right. US Naval ships are US territories. and US embassies are considered as such.

 

There are over 10,000 Islands that are part of the U.S.

AA

 

Might as well give up talking to jdog. He's the most negative person I can imagine. Why he has not committed suicide yet remains a mystery.

 

Ouch*

AA

 

You are still doing your own thing.

But I had a lot of good and great teachers in my secondary school as well as college. I had a few bad teachers, especially a grad assistant for English I in college that was absolutely horrible. However, I treated all, both successes and the one or two failures as learning opportunities.

That being said, secondary education today is definitely not the same when I went. When I went, it was about learning and understanding, now it is about test scores and fill in the bubble format. And although standardized testing does have some advantages, the secondary schools are not using them, but abusing them IMO.

 

Here is the thing.....High School curriculum is idiotic.

In this modern era students should be studying computer science, advanced mathematics, biology, physics...etc.

WAY too much is stresses upon students learning such idiocies as English Literature, American Literature...etc.

Such things are SUBJECTIVE!!!

At some point some Professor self anoints themselves as the person that decides what is a Great Literary work of art or not.

Such a thing is so subjective that a logic based mind such as my own rebels against such a notion.

One literary work in particular that I find to be simply the mental conflict and rambling of the author is GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

Anyone familiar with this book knows it is about a woman who was mentally injured by a man she hooked up with and this so damaged her she spends all her time instilling the need to hurt and degrade the manhood of the young man that her ward a young girl staying with her dates.

Now I have read MANY books and I can think of at least 100 stories that are much more worthy of acclaim than Great Expectations.

There is also a CULTURE that has developed in Academia that is specific to a hierarchy type system where certain long tenured Professors who have for so long been considered the authority in their fields will SUPPRESS any new theory or concept that they feel is contrary to their understanding.

I ran into this issue multiple times and in one case where I was able to shorted a mathematical proof by several steps I ran into a WALL of stubbornness and ego driven refusal to accept that my method was better and theirs was not.

When I was at MIT I came up with and had help developing a Multiversal Model as I knew the Many Worlds Model was far too limited to account for Quantum Mechanics.

It took me 5 months before I could convince the powers that be to allow me to stat this program.

What they hated the most about me is that because of what I do and my JOB....I was allowed to come and go as I pleased and for weeks if not over a month at a time.

But while I was gone I was still working in my mind and when I came back I would have answers needed to finish the model.

It would seem NOTHING aggravates a status quot and tenured Professor more than a Non-Geek way out of the box thinker who proves them wrong.

AA

 

The main thing with High School teaching is that it stresses way too much on memorization and not enough on analytical. Furthermore, literature is important for high school on several fronts. It can allow a person to be able to analyze subjective topics. It allows a more rounded education on literature that provides insight to the thinking of the times. And for certain American and British literature, it provides a synopsis and background of what our leaders in the days prior and at the time this country was founded. It is a complimentary aspect to history and other subject. Yes, math and science is important, but these topics also require analytical skills and that can only be taught with literature, history, etc. With American history and literature, American authors such as Hawthorne, for instance, would be a great asset in learning about the abolition movement and what were the thoughts and ideas of that movement. Today, it is about names, who was who and where, etc. Not the same thing.

But the problem is with the textbooks and the politics of those textbooks. When I was growing up, Juan Sequin was hardly ever mentioned. Tejanos was hardly ever mentioned. As it turn out, Texas Revolution was not about Mexicans vs Americans when I took the subject in high school, but about federalism vs nationalism, which I learned in College at a private, religious educational institution. (And Santa Anna was a nationalist that Trump exemplifies today, unfortunately.) With Texas, it is the SBOE and they re very anti science, and not just with evolution and biology I might add.

However, we also have to realize that not every high school student is going to college. Math, some form of math, is going to be required. But we have to develop programs in high school that is not the one size fits all, even at the local jurisdiction.

 

I have no issue with Literature being taught.

My issue is WHAT LITERATURE as much of it is CRAP!!

There are a lot more worthy books out there to read.

AA

 

Really? Name one or two?

And I don't mean any of the classics either.

 

The Foundation series.

When in Rome.

Angle on a Dream

AA