wiggerbeater wrote:
How is American superiority an unsubstantiated myth? Is our status as a lone superpower a myth? Do you honestly not think the US is the greatest military, scientific, economic, political, and cultural force on earth? Give me a break. Not all countries are equal.
Seventeen of the top 20 universities in the world are American, as are 35 of the top 50. American universities employ 70% of the world's living Nobel prize-winners, produce about 30% of the world's output of articles on science and engineering and 44% of the most frequently cited articles.
How are these things a myth? I already told you. Read again. Its all there.
By definition, America cannot be as diverse in all these matters as the whole of europe. An area made up of hundreds of different countries, with thousands of different legends, histories, cultures, and folklore and infintely varied terrain and requirements, and a VAST history of wars, discoveries, inventions, and infinte variations on ideology and politics, from far right to far left.
NO, not all countries are equal at any one time. As I said, their fortunes wax and wane. This still does not mean that America is the "best" by any stretch of the imagination. FFS you only have a two party political system. How diverse could you possibly get? Most european states have half a dozen at least. The most definitive force behind change and diversity and a countries fortunes are dictated by the "success" of their government, and the more diverse those governments, the more chance for change, expansion etc, or loss and ruin.
What is the relevance of this to the original topic? It defines the lack of knowledge and air of ignorance (arrogant or otherwise) that exists on one side of the atlantic about the other side. The precept that all europeans hate christianity is inherently flawed by a lack of knowledge about the state of things in Europe.
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