Japan vs US
 

"There are many reasons why the United States finds itself playing second fiddle to Japan today in so many high-technology areas where American pre-eminence was once unquestioned. Some of the reasons are complex, but one can be put in a statistical nutshell:

Out of every 10,000 Americans, 20 are lawyers, 40 are accountants, and 70 are engineers. Out of every 10,000 Japanese, one is a lawyer, three are accountants -- and 400 are engineers."

What's your point?

Japan excels in electronics and digital entertainment because the country is so small, and the land is poor for any other sort of business, such as expansive farming.

Japan lacks natural resources, that is why they import everything and make high-quality products for export. It's pretty much their best option.

Yea, I'd concur that it's a combination of culture and how much natural resources are available. Each group is good at certain things and not as good at others, it's covering each others weakness with their own strength, that makes the difference.

Sword arm, shield arm type thing, the shield blocks the sword attacks. While both can do the other, they aren't as effective doing what they weren't built to do. However, the complete soldier has both.

It's a simplistic I know, so don't over read it.

America is better, We are the land of freedom and big shit.

LOOOLLL

Okay, I really did lol at this....I mean, maybe it's just around here, but that is NOT the right way to use "second fiddle".....just sayin

Well that's not really the reason...

Japan excels at it because it invested in developing such industries a while back.

I think it doesn't matter, true we are the land of the free, but.... we should be economically stable and , how do i say, much more educated and not so self-centered. We need to focus on the things that matter most.

America is not the land of the free. What a stupid assertion.

American democracy is the not as representative as democracy in Europe or other parts of the Western world. Only two parties to choose from for example.

The American media is also ranked behind many other countries as being objective and accurate.

American society is not as racially tolerant as society in Europe or other parts of the Western world either.

Even on the basis that America is a free market society it is not the most free

Country rankings for trade, business, fiscal, monetary, financial, labor and investment freedoms

Ranking of economic freedom

1-Hong Kong
2-Singapore
3-Australia
4-Ireland
5-New Zealand
6-United States of America

This thread seems like a terrible idea just waiting for a troll.

This is just a silly topic as a whole. People questioning things such as this is nothing short of ridiculous.

You cant really compare these things because they arent the same. Its like you can't compare an apple to an orange.

This post pertains to Japan and America, not any of the countries on your list, which you will notice, puts America ahead of Japan, and the hundreds of other countries in the world (including every country in Europe). Not too bad, if I do say so myself.

As for democracy, America by definition is not a democracy (which was claimed even by Plato to be a weak form of government), but a constitutional republic, which affirm the rights of the individual over the often fickle and ever-changing opinions of the majority. It's not a perfect system, which the preamble to the constitution plainly asserts, but it's not bad.

Yeah, like Bruce Li, and Jackie Chan =\

Incorrect. Ireland is part of Europe.

Creating threads like this only serves to start another international my country is better than your country ect ect ect flame war. There are posters around here that live for this type of crap. Next time just research it instead of posting it.

Agreed completely. I see far too much blind patriotism by people from a variety of different countries. That's not to say being patriotic is a bad thing just lot's of people I talk to seem to be very patriotic, but can't say why.

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