No, you are not at Chris Crocker page on YouTube. But I just wanted to tell the author to LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE. Why is it everywhere I go, I hear and see Britney Spears news. Even when I'm reading a book about globalization, Friedman has to go and insult and mention Britney. I admit I'm a fan ("Gimme More" and "Slave 4 U" are THE joints!). I just don't see why he had to say...In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears - and that is our problem.
Stay on topic Mr. Friedman. The World Is Flat. We Are In Globalization 3.0. Yada yada yada. Just leave Britney alone.
Enough with my rant, back to the Chapter...
The 3 Dirty Little Secrets that the author mentions aren't really secrets. Well at least not to me. The secrets are:
#1: The Numbers Gap – The fact that the number of people going in to math & science is decreasing is NOT surprising. I went to a magnet school for math & science and while I’m good at both subjects, doing a career in them isn’t the desirable.
#2: The Ambition Gap - People over in China and India are more ambitious and harder-working should be no surprise to us either.
#3: The Education Gap - Americans have becoming lazier as technology gets faster and better. Hopefully, soon we can try to fix this problem as if we don't, the quiet crisis is going to be a very loud crisis with our next generation.
3 comments:
You're completely right on this one. This is the problem with our country today. Obessesed with celebreties, drama, and negative issues only to avoid their everyday lives. Brittany is all over the news, for what to say she was holding her baby while driving. Who gives a crap. In my edition of the book there is six dirty little secrets, and all it does is point out some weaknesses and that we are in crisis. To me this chapter is common sense, thanks Friedman. More money to education, losing engineer and science majors, blah blah.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH...oh, oh, HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Thanks for the laugh, Alex. I don't mean to insult you, but c'mon, Britney? Really?
There is a lot wrong with society today, and it kills me. It's one thing to enjoy someone's music (it's ok, Alex)but when people obsess over stupid things stupid "celebrities" do so much that these poor people get hounded by paparazzi, you know the country doesn't have it's priorities straight. I swear, if this next president doesn't fix some of this nonsense, I'm moving to JAPAN.
You're right ... there is too much focus and talk on celebrities these days, including Britney Spears. I think it's funny how so many people are obsessed with the lives of stars. They know everything about them and give their opinions on how they should change and what they should do next, yet these people won't do a thing to change or better themselves. It's crazy!
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