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Four Things That Make America Great
Having the opportunity to travel to some of the world recently after being dismissed early in 2005 and decided to go to Iraq as a consultant. In Iraq I had the opportunity to travel to other Middle Eastern countries and many countries in Southeast Asia. During the trip, I try take the opportunity from time to time to observe and try to understand the cultures that surround me in places I visit. Thus I gained a different perspective on my own country and have come to a conclusion. There are four things that make the United States of America a great country.
The first two are an integral part of the First Amendment of our Constitution. The first is our right to freedom of expression protected by the First Amendment. I think most people in the freedom of expression U.S. means little more than you can say whatever they want without having to worry about being sent to jail, while it is something sincere and not a vision disturbances. However, this amendment has given us a press corps that is free to give us a detailed and accurate presentation of news events (in most cases). This is not the case in many countries around the world when governments take the liberty to edit the news does not own purposes.
The second thing is the separation of church and the state is also protected by our First Amendment. This was originally important to our founding fathers because of their religious processing the Church of England and motivated many early settlers to move into a great unknown "New World" to practice the religion they wanted. Separation of Church and State means the government is not entitled to any input whatsoever in the actions of any true religion. I believe this amendment has kept the problems emotional belonging, out of politics in our country (mostly) ... Many countries have "national" religions written in their constitutions and really do not know what to do with those who are not part of it and not deviate from the religion of nations feel excluded and out of touch. In many cases this leads violence of various types and sizes often hear on the news.
The great thing is our third Copyright / patent laws that have given people in the United States, with the possibility of the "American Dream", allowing inventive or creative people to develop their full potential by allowing them to profit out of their creativity. In many countries, copyright and patent laws are lacking or not taken seriously, giving people an incentive to put their creativity to work for themselves, it is not likely to be the benefits.
The fourth thing is not so much of our laws or the Constitution, but how our country born from a diverse collection of countries around the world, our ethnic diversity. When traveling around the world in places like Southeast Asia and the Middle East that is a very diverse group of people. In fact, segregation is a natural state in the world, well, it was more a natural state of traveling around the world more difficult and limited to a few brave souls. We have only traveled the world en masse during the last 100 years at most. Therefore, most of the world is ethnically diverse and the U.S. is great. What have you done for us? It has brought together a diverse group of people with different thoughts, ideas and skills and will, through of our copyright / patent law, to develop the technologies of science and medicine that we have access today. The copyright and patent laws have increased considerably to our standard of living in the U.S. as well as the living standards of people around the world.
These four things, while they have made our country great they also test us every day with people practicing their freedom of expression and causing friction in their communities. With politicians trying to push religion in the rolls of government (and vice versa). The laws of copyright and patents have significantly increased our cost of the things we buy every day. And our ethnic diversity is often under fire because of our tendency to inbreed the segregation often leads to violence due to extreme racism. But we must continue struggling to keep four things in our country strong because they have done so much good for us. In the upcoming election, the candidates views on these four things and vote accordingly. These issues are not usually discussed by the candidates, being overshadowed by more pressing issues like global warming and the war in Iraq, and therefore will not be easy to determine. However, it focuses on these issues will give you an idea of whether the candidate has an understanding of how the U.S. have reached a high status that has the world and can continue to keep these things in our country strong.
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