At 2:28 PM -0800 1/25/00, Brandt D. wrote:
I have always said 'i dont like livin in the US' and
people would say 'then go somewhere else', but the
thing is, i would take Germany over the US any day.
Everyone says the US makes such great stuff, and it's
such a great country. Those are the same people who
buy shitty American cars.
Just my rambling rant:
I, too, am annoyed by blind patriotism, and won't say
something as crude as "Love it or Leave it!" however you are
stereotyping American industry as a whole by using the most visible
example: the automotive industry, which as most people on the would
probably agree, is handicapped by inept management, product planning,
and marketing, NOT engineering. As other people have said before,
America is capable of producing amazing technology; what we're not
very good at, unfortunately, is mass-producing it at an affordable
cost. Look in the research labs (industrial, academic, or military)
around the country and you'll see absolutely amazing ideas. Not to be
biased, but we are clearly the world leaders in scientific
innovation. What we need to achieve is technology transfer: getting
the great new stuff out of the lab, and into the market place. The
bio-tech industry has been doing a great job of this. Same for
structural/civil engineering; compare the damage and loss of life
from the Northridge, CA earthquake to the one that hit Kobei, Japan.
I would rather be here; thank you very much! And do you realize how
much most western Europeans pay in taxes? I have always driven German
cars, and lived there for a couple years as a kid, but when I'm
travelling abroad, I am damn glad to have an American passport! As
far as cultural/sociological inferiority to other countries, that's a
whole other, and very subjective, topic that really doesn't belong on
the list.
Lee
W. Lee Hendrick
[email protected]
http://soliton.ucsd.edu/~hendrick/
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