jhungary
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Since someone wrote an article here talking about what it's mean to be an American. So here I want to write an article detailing my version of America. And I am gonna put the truth out front, America is not the greatest country in the world.
Yes, I might have said that after I watched Jeff Daniels on the Newsroom rerun last night, but the problem is, he is actually right about this, there are no point denying it, no point trying to sugar coat it, or not point lying to ourselves, that America is not the greatest country in the world. We are not 6 anymore, we don't need to wave the flag and write an essay about How is America the greatest country in the world. We are all adult, we should know better.
When you look at the figure, what do we lead at? Beside spending much more on defence, having the largest single economy and probably have the biggest debt acuminated in the world and possibly leading heart attacks and diabetes per capita. We aren't leading anything, at least not anymore. And as a leader of free world, we aren't even top 5 country on freedom indexes, that's saying something.
It used to be the greatest country in the world, a country that, as Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The government may be of the people, by the people, but I really doubt if they are for the people.
At least at that day and age, American still fight for what they believe in, well, I am not saying that Slavery is just, but the south still have the balls to break away from the union and fight for what they believe is just, that's something you wont see today. In fact, today America is all about fear, the fear that we won't be any more competitive, the fear of terrorism, the fear of unjust, the fear that can't repay my mortgage tomorrow and even the fear of the government themselves.
Government induce fear into people and make them fall in line, yet sacrifice the thing that Make America unique, that's who make us who we are. That's the American Identity.
What I see today is that the Black against White, White against Asian, Asian against Hispanic and everybody against Muslim, we just don't see any of those as American anymore, but their race. Well, I wont blame the government fully for that, but they did play a part.
So, What now?
Well, I am not gonna go all McAvoy and say the first thing we need to solve a problem is to realise a problem exist in the first place. What I am going to do is why I still proudly say I am an American, amongst other things.
What make America great is that despite all this, the bond of American still strong, yes, we fight about everything, but in the end of the day, we are still American. Yes, maybe our country is not the greatest country in the world, but that we accept that this is not greatest country in the world the same as the country accept that we are also, flawed. We are Chinese, African, Indian, Pakistani, Japanese, Native or European, but we are also, above all American, it doesn't matter if America is not the greatest country in the world, I am still proud to be an American.
Let me depart you with the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
@Nihonjin1051 @SvenSvensonov @KAL-EL @AMDR @Kaniska or any American here
Yes, I might have said that after I watched Jeff Daniels on the Newsroom rerun last night, but the problem is, he is actually right about this, there are no point denying it, no point trying to sugar coat it, or not point lying to ourselves, that America is not the greatest country in the world. We are not 6 anymore, we don't need to wave the flag and write an essay about How is America the greatest country in the world. We are all adult, we should know better.
When you look at the figure, what do we lead at? Beside spending much more on defence, having the largest single economy and probably have the biggest debt acuminated in the world and possibly leading heart attacks and diabetes per capita. We aren't leading anything, at least not anymore. And as a leader of free world, we aren't even top 5 country on freedom indexes, that's saying something.
It used to be the greatest country in the world, a country that, as Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The government may be of the people, by the people, but I really doubt if they are for the people.
At least at that day and age, American still fight for what they believe in, well, I am not saying that Slavery is just, but the south still have the balls to break away from the union and fight for what they believe is just, that's something you wont see today. In fact, today America is all about fear, the fear that we won't be any more competitive, the fear of terrorism, the fear of unjust, the fear that can't repay my mortgage tomorrow and even the fear of the government themselves.
Government induce fear into people and make them fall in line, yet sacrifice the thing that Make America unique, that's who make us who we are. That's the American Identity.
What I see today is that the Black against White, White against Asian, Asian against Hispanic and everybody against Muslim, we just don't see any of those as American anymore, but their race. Well, I wont blame the government fully for that, but they did play a part.
So, What now?
Well, I am not gonna go all McAvoy and say the first thing we need to solve a problem is to realise a problem exist in the first place. What I am going to do is why I still proudly say I am an American, amongst other things.
What make America great is that despite all this, the bond of American still strong, yes, we fight about everything, but in the end of the day, we are still American. Yes, maybe our country is not the greatest country in the world, but that we accept that this is not greatest country in the world the same as the country accept that we are also, flawed. We are Chinese, African, Indian, Pakistani, Japanese, Native or European, but we are also, above all American, it doesn't matter if America is not the greatest country in the world, I am still proud to be an American.
Let me depart you with the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
@Nihonjin1051 @SvenSvensonov @KAL-EL @AMDR @Kaniska or any American here
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I post this to stimulate people's contribution, it is completely alright if you don't see what I see, why would you actually? You are an individual and I am another individual, unless you live my life, there are no way you can see the same thing I saw. And also because of this, this is what make America Great. That's because they allow and permit different Idea to grow, not just everyone have the same direction.
