The future of America

"Thus Europeans become Americans."

Four words in letter III that sums up Europe now. Kids all over Europe are being brought up with American films, American ideology and American politics. In the UK it is almost as if we have embraced it and allowed it to happen. This may be because most of what we watch in Cinemas is American. The old class of Europe are trying to resist it, vigorously. In Asia, despite such heavy cultural differences, it is slowly being turned towards. Despite the American system falling apart, China and other countries still embrace the Capitalist ideologies, in fact it is these ideologies that have built China up. However, though America's short term future looks bleak, and there is a very real possibility of a major war. Americans have 3 advantages: Firstly, they already have a built in social system that can be tweaked and is adaptable, which can be seen with how people (not often) can come from nothing to being something, people now have rights whatever their background. Secondly they have a very strong intelligent & innovative class Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, W. James McNerney jr.. Thirdly they have the word "America". This country rose from nothing 400 years ago to becoming a world superpower on the premise that it is the greatest nation, they always think they have a little more, despite countless imperfections, millions of problems, you can always be sure of one thing: the Americans ability to pull together.

When Osama Bin Laden was shot, my reaction, as well as many Europeans, was should of been taken alive. To America it had just killed enemy number one! They were outside the White house, spontaneously, shouting USA USA USA. In Europe many people laughed, in America they felt pride. America is set up to run as a country ready for anything. It's biggest threat is not a renegade Chinese commander and a war, because America would win. It isn't a global economic crisis, America can pull through. its not even when the world catches up and becomes American. It is from it's self, if it fragments, Americans become Californians, Texans, etc. and it's companies like Apple, continue to build there goods in China, giving Chinese jobs and not American jobs. The American system can kill itself and in europe we should be worried because it is the same system we are in that is in fact killing itself. Then when that starts to happen, debt does become a problem.