This is the age of information and technology.

Five hundred years ago Christopher Columbus sailed the world, and discovered that the world was not flat. There are people today that would argue that the world is flat. The reason is because the playing field has been leveled, and countries from around the world are now competitive players.

Technology has been made available all over the world, and countries that were once some of the poorest are now incredibly wealthy. Fewer people are no longer rotting like vegetables on the docks of India and China, hoping to get onto a boat for the opportunity to make something of themselves.

Having an internet connection and a computer can make a significant difference.

People from various countries have access to information, and can become educated. These people are not only educated, they will work harder and for less money. Engineering is engineering; it makes little difference the designing is done by someone on your soil or drafted to somebody in India. I believe India is pumping out a lot of nurses and doctors, and medical tourism is increasing there.

The world is changing rapidly. America will not be the top dog forever.

We knew the world was round long before columbus.
And india is pumping out substandard doctors and nurses who suck at their jobs.

This post was edited by Lifebane99 on Jun 12 2013 12:46am

the issue with christopher colombus was he was trying to get to india in order to create a trade route, at the time the world was known to be round and there was even some very good approximations on its circumference.

given this knowledge of the size of the world and that it was round, most the people felt that Colombus would die of thirst/starvation before ever completing the 10,000+ mile journy to india, which he would have if not for him happening upon america.

This post was edited by Ylem122 on Jun 12 2013 12:46am

Because capitalism.

You hold homies to a standard that you don't hold the bloated military industrial complex to. Or your corporations.

This post was edited by inkanddagger on Jun 12 2013 12:58am

Yeah, if they wanted every one to own a home it was easily achievable if not for the ridiculous amount of spending on trash.

...the answer is of course no , as long as there remains one person like myself who understands the actual meaning behind the concept . The physical size of the nation may swell or recede , the importance of her policies and global power may wax or wane but the real America exists where it can not be challenged or threatened because it lives within my heart and my mind and knows only those same boundaries in the hearts and minds of every other genuine American .

Of course people knew the world to be round back then. There was still some pockets of stupid shit around then just like now. It's like someone 500 years from now observing that people in 2013 thought that coal was clean energy, or that climate change isn't happening.

Climate change is exaggerated.

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