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Friday, February 12, 2010

Can one country actually be 'Best'?

So an old friend writes his five best countries in the world on facebook. USA USA USA USA USA, and then claims it was a ‘no brainer’. I wanted to ask three questions, 1, how many/have you ever been to other countries, 2, do you really know WHY you are saying that, and 3, what information and decision making process are you using? The reality of it is that most people that claim this have spent very little time outside the country they live in, and even if they have it is generally on vacation, or through the uninterested, narrow-minded eyes given to them in their home country. It is really sad that people take in so much information with such little questioning of its merits, sources, and purposes…

I just want to say things to these people, to try to open their eyes... It is not that America is the best country, or that it is not, but rather just that that is simply what they have been taught to believe. Indoctrinated into the system as ‘they’ want you to be… But even if I say something, I don't see it as doing anything but pushing me further away from everything – friends, family, society, etc. People don’t want to change things, they don’t want to up-heave their entire lives, those in power like them as they are... 

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