of course we like it. BUT....
I'm actually not a huge fan of this country although i've lived here all of my life and i'll explain. one thing is that during high school, people learn that they can't be anything without going to college and not picking your college or being concerned with college is not the popular thing to do and you'd be looked down upon if you were choosing not to further your education. while i believe that there are definitely professions that should require an education, i don't feel like it's right (even on behalf of the company) for employers to require such things when really all they're doing is establishing this sense of security that this person has this higher level of responsibility and ingoring someone without "qualifications" that could help them more. you can go to school and learn everything about whatever it is you want to do...you can know your job and that is great but that does not necessarily mean that you're not an idiot which will eventually become a problem. this all rolls down hill....even if you're an idiot, you can be greatly successful if all you have to do is not communicate with anyone and do JUST your job but, when you're hiring someone (to hire someone, you would have had to of been hired first...meaning that you had these same requirements that you're making sure the person you're hiring has), you can't just be someone with a closed minded idea of exactly what you're looking for, interview the person, find out if they have an education, ask them what 18 times 12 is and make sure their shoes match their belt and hire them but that is what happens. this is one of the reasons that customer service no longer exists, anywhere..banks, cell phone companies, insurance companies. if you ask anyone to go outside of their script and actually think, you're definitely going to end up being mad...and who hires these people? supervisors. supervisors get that title by? having the best attitude, being knowledgeable but making necessary exceptions when they feel they should be made? no...they're supervisors because the company needed supervisors and just looked for the people with the best numbers...in call centers, that would be average call time and quality assurance (monitors) calls. and who is it that makes these supervisors become supervisors? those would be your people with degrees who aren't actively engaged in the well being of the customer, it's all about numbers. i need to get off of this subject because i've kind of strayed from the question.
as far as stuff that you can do, see, eat...this place is great. you've got desert (arizona) and the rocky mountains (17,000 ft in colorado) separated by about 600 miles then another 600 miles from the desert, you have the ocean...it's very cool how easy it is to get to very different places.
there are a lot of stereotypes, prejudices and insecurities in our country, these things are bad but probably exist everywhere.
getting on with more serious things though....it's not that i disagree with our leadership in any way but people are just brainwashed from as high up as it gets all the way down to people washing toilets that things need to happen in a certain way. it seems that the way people are made to think that they need to persue their goals is really just a huge (very successful) blanket over the big picture, which if anyone has scene around this blanket, it is drug dealers...again, from top to bottom. everyone works for "the man" no matter what you're doing, you work for him, drug dealers don't and although they don't all necessarily understand that what they're doing is so highly intelligent, the smaller picture they're looking at happens to just show them that buying and selling their own things make them "the man" and that they can do much better with their own stuff than they could do helping "the other man" promote his. this all became clear to me when i was 19 (not the drug aspect of it) and that's when i decided to start investing in property..because it's mine, whatever profit is made from selling it, i keep (minus tax) and it's the most expensive thing out there so assuming that whatever one was to sell, they'd make the same percentage of profit, why not sell the most expensive stuff. this country is great but besides religion, i believe that we're the most brainwashed nation. sorry for the drug dealer stuff, it's just an example that anyone could relate to, since i'm sure many will read this. i felt i had to answer your question because i feel strongly. i by no means dislike my country but i stronly disagree with a lot of stuff associated with our society and my main point is that it seems a lot of effort goes in to keeping people from seeing the big picture. i was going to end with that but i forgot something else...kind of a big thing but i'll make it brief. this effort to keep people from being more "indepent" (if you will)...helps the government out tremendously. you go to school, get that degree, pay for it for 10 years and you pay it to the government...any licenses, degrees, certifications any of that stuff is stuff that the government gets money on so them making you have to get it, or making an employer make you have to get it, or making you think an employer is going to make you get it or even just making it so that so many people have it that the employer thinks you should have to have it all creates money for the government. if this were an exam for school, i'd be at the point now we're i'd need to get that A+ to be satisfied, i'd keep going, edit what i already typed and probably create 50 pages but it's not, you understand my points and can piece the rest together, especially once i leave you with a question and answer to help you.
why is our nation so successful and why will it never fall? because our people, completely obliviously hold it together and even if they knew it, they wouldn't know how to stop doing it, that's why.
- you can love or hate what i wrote...if you respond, don't give me some cliche bull...me mad at me and have some points. thanks.
2007-02-16 17:09:54
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I love living the the USA. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. The land of opportunity. If you can't succeed here, you can't anywhere. Freedom. Where else in the world do you have the freedom to say what you want when you want.
2007-02-16 16:31:08
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mcdonalds, heat, running water, sanitation, doctors, i guess it depends what your comparing it to. there's no place like home though.
2007-02-16 16:30:22
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answered by Anonymous
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