The answer is no by a wide margin, but let's see how many homers we have here.  How many Americans on this board blindly believe we are the best regardless of all the facts?  How many use it as an excuse not to evolve our society?

If you're not American, please don't vote.

I have to wonder what exactly it is you're trying to prove here and if it even matters.

If you don't think it is (by a wide margin), which country is in your opinion, and why aren't you living there?

Originally posted by Zindaihas

If you don't think it is (by a wide margin), which country is in your opinion, and why aren't you living there?

  Those countries don't want us: They have enough educated people due to their superior education. While America has a few outstanding universities, they are the standard in the developed European countries.

If I had my choice I'd live in Austria/Germany/Norway/Sweden/Switzerland, but due to the economic conditions I have fierce competition, so I'm going to grind out the next few years ( if I pass qualifiers )  to get a degree that will be recognized everywhere in the world.

Originally posted by Zindaihas

If you don't think it is (by a wide margin), which country is in your opinion, and why aren't you living there?

There is no greatest country in the world.  Proclaiming yourself as superior only makes you look like an ass and the rest of the world hate you.  Add to that the complacency of being the best and therefore not adjusting to what is happening in the world and you have yourself a recipe for collapse.

Sticking to old ideas and traditions only leaves you in the dust.  Look at the middle east.  A region ripe with moral and religious laws dating back thousands and thousands of years.  How has that fared for them?

Originally posted by Sabiancym

Originally posted by Zindaihas

If you don't think it is (by a wide margin), which country is in your opinion, and why aren't you living there?

 

There is no greatest country in the world.  Proclaiming yourself as superior only makes you look like an ass and the rest of the world hate you.  Add to that the complacency of being the best and therefore not adjusting to what is happening in the world and you have yourself a recipe for collapse.

Sticking to old ideas and traditions only leaves you in the dust.  Look at the middle east.  A region ripe with moral and religious laws dating back thousands and thousands of years.  How has that fared for them?

 

I agree with this entirely.

These 'holy wars' are being fought off primitive and barbaric ideals that date back to when man used sticks to fight with.

I am however, proud of my country.

Originally posted by //\\//\\oo

Originally posted by Zindaihas

If you don't think it is (by a wide margin), which country is in your opinion, and why aren't you living there?

 

  Those countries don't want us: They have enough educated people due to their superior education. While America has a few outstanding universities, they are the standard in the developed European countries.

If I had my choice I'd live in Austria/Germany/Norway/Sweden/Switzerland, but due to the economic conditions I have fierce competition, so I'm going to grind out the next few years ( if I pass qualifiers )  to get a degree that will be recognized everywhere in the world.

 

American Universities are the Gold Standard in Education for the entire world.  Take a look at where the vast majority of the world wants to get educated and it is here in American.  Our post secondary education is extremely good.  Our elementary through secondary education system sucks. 

Here is the top 50 universities in the world according to the webometics rankings.  The Webometrics Ranking is produced by the Cybermetrics Lab, a unit of the National Research Council (CSIC), the main public research body in Spain. The Lab acts as an Observatory of the Science and Technology on the Web. Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD is the head of the Laboratory and editor-in-chief of the Rankings.

World Rank Name Website Size Visibility Rich Scholar
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 Harvard University
4 Pennsylvania State University
5 University of California, Berkeley
6 University of Michigan
7 University of Wisconsin-Madison
8 University of Minnesota
9 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10 Cornell Univeristy
11 University of Texas at Austin
12 University Of Washington
13 University Of Pennsylvania
14 Columbia University
15 University of Chicago
16 Texas A&M University
17 University of California, Los Angeles
18 University of Arizona
19 University of Maryland, College Park
20 Purdue University
21 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
22 University of Florida
23 Michigan State University
24 Indiana University
25 University of Toronto
26 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
27 University of Cambridge
28 Rutgers University
29 Duke University
30 Georgia Institute of Technology
31 California Institute of Technology
32 University of California, San Diego
33 New York University
34 University of Pittsburgh
35 University Of Virginia
36 Princeton University
37 University of Oxford
38 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
39 University of Southern California
40 University of British Columbia
41 Yale University
42 Johns Hopkins University
43 University of Helsinki
44 University of California, Davis
45 North Carolina State University
46 Washington University in St. Louis
47 Australian National University
48 University of Utah
49 University of Colorado at Boulder
50 University of Oslo

So honestly if you think that your post secondary education would be better in another country you are sadly mistaken. 

And just in case you think that the Spanish researchers are biased here are the rankings done by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.  The Universities are listed in rank order based on their 2008 ranking.  They used standards based on quality of research, number of alumni winning fields medals and Nobel prizes, and number of staff winning Fields Medals and Nobel Prizes, among a few more criteria. 

Flag of the United States Harvard University 1 1 1 1 1 1
Flag of the United States Stanford University 2 2 2 3 2 2
Flag of the United States University of California, Berkeley 4 4 4 4 3 3
Flag of the United Kingdom University of Cambridge 5 3 3 2 4 4
Flag of the United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6 5 5 5 5 5
Flag of the United States California Institute of Technology 3 6 6 6 6 6
Flag of the United States Columbia University 10 9 9 7 7 7
Flag of the United States Princeton University 7 7 7 8 8 8
Flag of the United States University of Chicago 11 10 10 8 9 9
Flag of the United Kingdom University of Oxford 9 8 8 10 10 10
Flag of the United States Yale University 8 11 11 11 11 11
Flag of the United States Cornell University 12 12 12 12 12 12
Flag of the United States University of California, Los Angeles 15 16 16 14 13 13
Flag of the United States University of California, San Diego 14 13 13 13 14 14
Flag of the United States University of Pennsylvania 18 15 15 15 15 15
Flag of the United States University of Washington 16 20 20 17 16 16
Flag of the United States University of Wisconsin - Madison 27 18 18 16 17 17
Flag of the United States University of California, San Francisco 13 17 17 18 18 18
Flag of Japan Tokyo University 19 14 14 19 20 19
Flag of the United States Johns Hopkins University 24 22 22 20 19 20
Flag of the United States University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 21 19 19 21 21 21
Flag of the United Kingdom University College London 20 25 25 26 25 22
Flag of Japan Kyoto University 30 21 21 22 22 23
Flag of Switzerland ETH Zurich 25 27 27 27 27 24
Flag of Canada University of Toronto 23 24 24 24 23 24
Flag of the United States University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 45 25 25 25 26 26
Flag of the United Kingdom Imperial College London 17 23 23 23 23 27
Flag of the United States University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 37 33 33 32 33 28
Flag of the United States Washington University in St. Louis 22 28 28 28 28 29
Flag of the United States Northwestern University 29 30 30 33 29 30
Flag of the United States New York University 55 32 32 29 30 31
Flag of the United States Duke University 32 31 31 31 32 32
Flag of the United States Rockefeller University 28 29 29 30 30 32
Flag of the United States University of Colorado, Boulder 31 34 34 34 34 34
Flag of Canada University of British Columbia 35 36 36 36 36 35
Flag of the United States University of California, Santa Barbara 26 35 35 35 35 36
Flag of the United States University of Maryland at College Park 75 57 57 37 37 37
Flag of the United States University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 52 56 56 59 58 38
Flag of the United States University of Texas - Austin 47 40 40 39 38 39
Flag of the United Kingdom University of Manchester 89 78 53 50 48 40
Flag of the United States University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 34 36 36 38 39 41
Flag of the United States Pennsylvania State University 40 43 43 42 43 42
Flag of France University of Paris 6 (Pierre and Marie Curie University) 65 41 41 45 39 42
Flag of the United States Vanderbilt University 32 38 38 41 41 42
Flag of Denmark University of Copenhagen 65 59 59 56 46 45
Flag of the United States University of California, Irvine 44 55 55 44 45 46
Flag of the Netherlands University of Utrecht 40 39 39 40 42 47
Flag of the United States University of California, Davis 36 42 42 42 43 48
Flag of France University of Paris 11 (Paris-Sud 11 University) 72 48 48 64 52 49
Flag of the United States University of Southern California 40 48 48 47 50 50
Flag of Sweden Karolinska Institutet 39 46 46 48 53 51
Flag of the United States University of Pittsburgh 53 48 48 48 49 52
Flag of Switzerland University of Zurich 45 57 57 58 58 53
Flag of the United States Rutgers University 38 44 44 46 47 54
Flag of the United Kingdom University of Edinburgh 43 47 47 52 53 55
Flag of Germany University of Munich 48 51 51 51 53 55
Flag of Germany Technical University of Munich 60 45 45 54 56 57
Flag of the United States University of Florida 75 67 67 53 51 58
Flag of Australia Australian National University 49 53 53 54 57 59
Flag of Canada McGill University 79 61 61 62 63 60
Flag of the United Kingdom University of Bristol 55 60 60 62 62 61
Flag of the United States Carnegie Mellon University 61 62 62 56 60 62
Flag of the United States Ohio State University 81 73 73 66 61 62
Flag of Norway University of Oslo 63 68 68 68 69 64
Flag of Israel Hebrew University of Jerusalem 94 90 90 60 64 65
Flag of the United States Purdue University 80 71 71 73 68 65
Flag of Germany University of Heidelberg 58 64 64 66 65 67
Flag of Japan Osaka University 53 54 54 61 67 68
Flag of Finland University of Helsinki 74 72 72 74 73 68
Flag of Russia Moscow State University 1000 66 66 70 76 70
Flag of the United States Brown University 49 82 82 85 70 71
Flag of Sweden Uppsala University 59 74 74 65 66 71
Flag of France École Normale Supérieure - Paris 1000 85 85 99 83 73
Flag of Australia University of Melbourne 92 82 82 78 79 73
Flag of the United States University of Rochester 72 52 52 74 75 73
Flag of the Netherlands University of Leiden 78 63 63 72 71 76
Flag of the United States University of Arizona 55 76 76 76 74 77
Flag of the United Kingdom University of Sheffield 68 69 69 69 72 77
Flag of Japan Tohoku University 64 69 69 76 76 79
Flag of the United States University of Utah 81 95 95 94 93 79
Flag of the United Kingdom King's College London 75 77 77 83 83 81
Flag of the United Kingdom University of Nottingham 1000 80 80 79 81 82
Flag of the United States Boston University 98 86 86 81 83 83
Flag of the United States Case Western Reserve University 51 65 65 70 78 83
Flag of the United States Michigan State University 87 80 80 80 80 83
Flag of Sweden Stockholm University 1000 97 97 84 86 86
Flag of Switzerland University of Basel 96 91 91 81 82 87
Flag of the United States Texas A&M University 70 1000 1000 88 91 88
Flag of Canada McMaster University 86 88 88 90 87 89
Flag of Germany University of Goettingen 91 79 79 85 87 90
Flag of the United Kingdom University of Birmingham 1000 93 93 90 92 91
Flag of the United States Indiana University - Bloomington 1000 1000 1000 97 90 92
Flag of Denmark Aarhus University 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 93
Flag of the United States Arizona State University 1000 1000 1000 100 96 93
Flag of the United States University of Virginia 67 1000 1000 1000 1000 95
Flag of Germany University of Freiburg 1000 88 88 93 94 96
Flag of Sweden Lund University 93 92 92 90 97 97
Flag of the United States Rice University 61 75 75 87 87 97
Flag of Germany University of Bonn 1000 99 99 1000 99 97
Flag of Australia University of Sydney 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 97
Flag of the United States Emory University 99 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Flag of Germany Free University of Berlin 95 1000 1000 99 83 1000
Flag of Germany Humboldt University of Berlin 1000 95 95 1000 1000 1000
Flag of Japan Nagoya University 68 97 97 98 94 1000
Flag of the United States North Carolina State University 99 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Flag of Japan Tokyo Institute of Technology 1000 1000 1000 89 99 1000
Flag of the United States Tufts University 83 99 99 1000 1000 1000
Flag of the United States University of California, Riverside 88 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Flag of Belgium University of Ghent 99 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Flag of the Netherlands University of Groningen 84 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Flag of the United States University of Illinois at Chicago 96 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Flag of the United States University of Iowa 90 1000 1000 95 97 1000
Flag of Italy Sapienza University of Rome 70 93 93 100 1000 1000
Flag of France University of Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur University) 1000 82 82 96 99 1000
Flag of Austria University of Vienna 84 86 86 1000 1000 1000

Yes.

For pole dancers. All the world's women want to come here and pole dance rather than their own countries. Just ask any pole dancer in France or sad old England! Russian women get their degrees in pole dancing from here by the bucketful.

Because dammit... we try harder. :)

There is no greatest country in the world.

Kinda like two baseball teams playing against each other and at the end their both winners.

The greatest would be the one that gives more money to other nations than anyone one nation or combined nations by default.Without monies your just a broke ass nation.

Muslims are doing quite well over in Europe and Asia to be a bunch of ass backward stone age believers.Europe's population is in decline while the Muslims increases by ever larger margins.

Taoism: Shit happens.
* Confucianism: Confucius say, “Shit happens.”
* Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn’t really shit.
* Zen Buddhism: Shit is, and is not.
* Zen Buddhism #2: What is the sound of shit happening?
* Hinduism: This shit has happened before.
* Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah.
* Islam #2: If shit happens, kill the person responsible.
* Islam #3: If shit happens, blame Israel.
* Catholicism: If shit happens, you deserve it.
* Protestantism: Let shit happen to someone else.
* Presbyterian: This shit was bound to happen.
* Episcopalian: It’s not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve the right wine with it.
* Methodist: It’s not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve grape juice with it.
* Congregationalist: Shit that happens to one person is just as good as shit that happens to another.
* Unitarian: Shit that happens to one person is just as bad as shit that happens to another.
* Lutheran: If shit happens, don’t talk about it.

* Fundamentalism: If shit happens, you will go to hell, unless you are born again.
(Amen!)
* Fundamentalism #2: If shit happens to a televangelist, it’s okay.
* Fundamentalism #3: Shit must be born again.
* Judaism: Why does this shit always happen to us?
* Calvinism: Shit happens because you don’t work.
* Seventh Day Adventism: No shit shall happen on Saturday.
* Creationism: God made all shit.
* Secular Humanism: Shit evolves.
* Christian Science: When shit happens, don’t call a doctor – pray!
* Christian Science #2: Shit happening is all in your mind.
* Unitarianism: Come let us reason together about this shit.
* Quakers: Let us not fight over this shit.
* Utopianism: This shit does not stink.
* Darwinism: This shit was once food.
* Capitalism: That’s MY shit.
* Communism: It’s everybody’s shit.
* Feminism: Men are shit.
* Chauvinism: We may be shit, but you can’t live without us…
* Commercialism: Let’s package this shit.

* Impressionism: From a distance, shit looks like a garden.
* Idolism: Let’s bronze this shit.
* Existentialism: Shit doesn’t happen; shit IS.
* Existentialism #2: What is shit, anyway?
* Stoicism: This shit is good for me.
* Hedonism: There is nothing like a good shit happening!
* Mormonism: God sent us this shit.
* Mormonism #2: This shit is going to happen again.
* Wiccan: An it harm none, let shit happen.
* Scientology: If shit happens, see “Dianetics”, p.157.
* Jehovah’s Witnesses: >Knock< >Knock< Shit happens.
* Jehovah’s Witnesses #2: May we have a moment of your time to show you some of our shit?
* Jehovah’s Witnesses #3: Shit has been prophesied and is imminent; only the righteous shall survive its happening.
* Moonies: Only really happy shit happens.
* Hare Krishna: Shit happens, rama rama.
* Rastafarianism: Let’s smoke this shit!
* Zoroastrianism: Shit happens half on the time.

* Church of SubGenius: BoB shits.
* Practical: Deal with shit one day at a time.
* Agnostic: Shit might have happened; then again, maybe not.
* Agnostic #2: Did someone shit?
* Agnostic #3: What is this shit?
* Satanism: SNEPPAH TIHS.
* Atheism: What shit?
* Atheism #2: I can’t believe this shit!
* Nihilism: No shit.
* And of course we must add…Alcoholics Anonymous: Shit happens-one day at a time!

Originally posted by Sabiancym

Originally posted by Zindaihas

If you don't think it is (by a wide margin), which country is in your opinion, and why aren't you living there?

 

There is no greatest country in the world.  Proclaiming yourself as superior only makes you look like an ass and the rest of the world hate you.  Add to that the complacency of being the best and therefore not adjusting to what is happening in the world and you have yourself a recipe for collapse.

Sticking to old ideas and traditions only leaves you in the dust.  Look at the middle east.  A region ripe with moral and religious laws dating back thousands and thousands of years.  How has that fared for them?

 

It has nothing to do with feeling superior.  It has everything to do with freedom.  We are all created equal.  But not everyone is free.  America is great because its people are largely free.  A condition which is increasingly coming under pressure by the government.  The day the American people lose their freedom is the day America ceases to be great.

Only a leftist would be confused by this.

And to address Cabe's point about American universities, he's right on.  Where you been Cabe?  We need more voices of reason on this board.

Originally posted by Zindaihas

Originally posted by Sabiancym

Originally posted by Zindaihas

If you don't think it is (by a wide margin), which country is in your opinion, and why aren't you living there?

 

There is no greatest country in the world.  Proclaiming yourself as superior only makes you look like an ass and the rest of the world hate you.  Add to that the complacency of being the best and therefore not adjusting to what is happening in the world and you have yourself a recipe for collapse.

Sticking to old ideas and traditions only leaves you in the dust.  Look at the middle east.  A region ripe with moral and religious laws dating back thousands and thousands of years.  How has that fared for them?

 

 

It has nothing to do with feeling superior.  It has everything to do with freedom.  We are all created equal.  But not everyone is free.  America is great because its people are largely free.  A condition which is increasingly coming under pressure by the government.  The day the American people lose their freedom is the day America ceases to be great.

Only a leftist would be confused by this.

And to address Cabe's point about American universities, he's right on.  Where you been Cabe?  We need more voices of reason on this board.

Been going to Graduate school since I got out of the Navy this Past December.  So been real busy.  :(

It's the greatest country for me.

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Originally posted by Cabe2323

 

 

American Universities are the Gold Standard in Education for the entire world.  Take a look at where the vast majority of the world wants to get educated and it is here in American.  Our post secondary education is extremely good.  Our elementary through secondary education system sucks. 

 

Out of over 4000 Universities(the most in the world incidentally). The average university in America sure as hell isn't the gold standard and a lot of those alumni who won fields medals or Nobel prizes came from other countries. Quality of research is also very subjective and dependent on economic factors not necessarily correlated with the quality of the actual education; there are quite a few state schools with piss poor curricula, but outstanding research due to outside resources.

Originally posted by //\\//\\oo

Originally posted by Cabe2323

 

 

American Universities are the Gold Standard in Education for the entire world.  Take a look at where the vast majority of the world wants to get educated and it is here in American.  Our post secondary education is extremely good.  Our elementary through secondary education system sucks. 

 

 

Out of over 4000 Universities(the most in the world incidentally). The average university in America sure as hell isn't the gold standard and a lot of those alumni who won fields medals or Nobel prizes came from other countries. Quality of research is also very subjective and dependent on economic factors not necessarily correlated with the quality of the actual education; there are quite a few state schools with piss poor curricula, but outstanding research due to outside resources.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And yet you have to go pretty far down to find one outside the US and then they still take up most of the top 50. Yes our state schools aren't that great but the ones in and around texas are getting much better thanks to the top 10% rule. For those that don't know if you rank in the top 10% a texas state school can not turn down your application. Because of this basicly only the top 10% make it into UT and A&M9helping them rank so high) the others who are might have been at a very tough school yet couldn't make the cut look elsewhere such as OU and Tech. They have both raised the standards needed to get in and both are growing academically(OU has gotten some awesome new engineering buildings)

Im proud of my country I think its the best. I would hope people living in other countries who truly loved it would think theirs is the best. After all if you don't think your country is that great why are you still there?

Japan is superior

no exceptions.

<--weeaboo

Originally posted by Wolfenpride

Japan is superior

no exceptions.

<--weeaboo

Yes, they have given world humanity such gems as TubGirl and that anime child porn.. forget the name.. but there is animated infant porn.... nuff said.

sabian, why do you always make bullshit topics that try and degrade your opposing view?  There are alot of things that need to be done in the US, but I do not believe those things should include copying failing concepts from other nations.  I think what makes the US so great is that its fueled by competition and greed.  Two things that are taken out with socialism and large central governments.  I just wish Universities weren't so liberal and teach the true purpose of a state-based republic.

9.8.3

The US certainly has the world's major war economy and prison industry.

Durable-goods shipments — a basic measure of industrial production — “fell by more than 20 percent during this recession, and would have declined further were it not for increased production of weapons.

In the past nine years, non-industrial production in the US has declined by some 19 percent. It took about four years for manufacturing to return to levels seen before the 2001 recession — and all those gains were wiped out in the current recession." link

By contrast, military manufacturing is now 123 percent greater than it was in 2000 — it has more than doubled while the rest of the manufacturing sector has been shrinking. The military economy is nearly three times as large, proportionally to the rest of the economy, as it was at the beginning of the Bush administration.

The change in leadership in Washington does not appear to be abating that trend. The military budget for 2009, not including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is us$651 Billion, up 11 percent from the us$583 Billion spent on the military in 2008.

Originally posted by bhug

9.8.3

The US certainly has the world's major war economy and prison industry.

Durable-goods shipments — a basic measure of industrial production — “fell by more than 20 percent during this recession, and would have declined further were it not for increased production of weapons.

In the past nine years, non-industrial production in the US has declined by some 19 percent. It took about four years for manufacturing to return to levels seen before the 2001 recession — and all those gains were wiped out in the current recession." link

By contrast, military manufacturing is now 123 percent greater than it was in 2000 — it has more than doubled while the rest of the manufacturing sector has been shrinking. The military economy is nearly three times as large, proportionally to the rest of the economy, as it was at the beginning of the Bush administration.

The change in leadership in Washington does not appear to be abating that trend. The military budget for 2009, not including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is us$651 Billion, up 11 percent from the us$583 Billion spent on the military in 2008.

The post-2001 Military Empire Structure is bi-partisan.. lol. This grand illusion that the Bush administration is the only ones to blame needs to stop. Our current administration is throwing more chips on the pile and increasing troop levels and military funding across the board.

I didn't think it possible to increase the military funding/force after the Bush administration, but here we are.. and wow I say, wow indeed.