Chad Cooper wrote:
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>I believe that we can set a benchmark based upon the amount of money or
>wealth that originated in this country and was transferred into another
>either through charity, grants, or governmental assistance.
Granted.
This can also include the vast intellectual wealth (medicine, technology,
energy, etc) that we have shared with the world.
True enough. However, I think this is the way world works - you build on the
works of others, they build on yours. Unless of course, you are claiming
that this vast intellectual wealth was created in a total intellectual
vacuum as far as the inputs of any other country is concerned. :o)
>I personally think that this would make us the greatest Country ever.
No arguements with your personal belifs. It is just that when I am asked to
uphold somebody else's opinion as the truth, I like to have reasons that
make sense to me.
>However, since Europeans tend to ignore the more materialistic evidence of
>greatness, and look more towards a more ethereal, less definable stick of
>measurement of our greatness, I am sure that we can appear "bland" or
>lacking in humanism, or culturally bankrupt.
Not being a European,I wouldn't presume to speak on their behalf. However,
as an Asian, I would say that I too believe that there is more to greatness
than accumulation of material wealth.
>There will always be those that "need" to point fingers at greatness.
True. As there will be always be those who interpret a difference of opinion
as an attack on indisputable greatness.
:o)
Ritu
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