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USA the _only_ super-power left? Pardon, Russia has warships, submarines, thousands of tanks, 7500 war planes, oh and some 3500 nuclear warheads and hundreds of ICBMs; oh and more chemical and bio weapons than the US.
So when millions of African, European, Asian immigrants give up their jobs and families and move to the U.S. and end-up jobless and homeless, sure there is hate. American response is well no one promised you a rose garden.
Here are the languages spoken, with number of speakers in my home zip code right here in the good old USA. As you can guess, lot of immigrants...
English 13,797
All languages other than English combined 5,142
Spanish or Spanish Creole 1,642
Italian 1,000
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole 929
French (incl. Patois, Cajun) 199
Greek 153
Chinese 145
French Creole 142
German 103
Tagalog 100
Other Asian languages 84
African languages 79
Thai 78
Japanese 67
Polish 64
Gujarathi 46
Hindi 45
Other Slavic languages 37
Arabic 31
Hebrew 28
Korean 27
Other Pacific Island languages 25
Persian 23
Other Indo-European languages 20
Scandinavian languages 14
Other West Germanic languages 14
Urdu 13
Serbo-Croatian 8
Russian 8
Other Indic languages 6
Armenian 6
Yiddish 6
Hungarian 0
Laotian 0
Miao, Hmong 0
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian 0
Navajo 0
Other and unspecified languages 0
Other Native North American languages 0
Vietnamese 0
Total: 18,939
NINETY-FIVE (95)% of the world's population uses the METRIC SYSTEM, but the U.S. refuses to change-over .
That's not a real problem. Just a gripe. Who cares if we don't use the metric system?
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The U.S. refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol climate-control agreement,
The U.S. refused to sign the International Land-Mine treaty.
American are energy-hogs. They live in huge houses on winding cul-de-sacs, consume about twice the energy per person as Europeans do, drive S.U.V.'s, and do not believe in mass transportation. Their recycling rate is low, and they discard containers of all kinds, like there's no tomorrow. Even the capital city Washington D.C. had to be sued by the Sierra Club to force them to start any residential recycling pickup.
Now these are all good points. The amount of waste in this country is appalling.
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The U.S. train system (Amtrak) is pathetic and an embarassment, except for the northeast Atlantic corridor (and even there, it's not high-speed at all). Trains in China and Spain especially, are totally light-years ahead of the U.S.
This is an issue but one more for Americans than anyone else.
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Most Americans have very little knowledge about other nations' affairs - not even the most basic knowledge of Canada. Smart-phone capabilities are superior and faster in countries like South Korea.
This is true and shameful. But, there are also a fair number of people in other countries who don't know that much about the US but it's worse because they frequently think they do.
USA the _only_ super-power left? Pardon, Russia has warships, submarines, thousands of tanks, 7500 war planes, oh and some 3500 nuclear warheads and hundreds of ICBMs; oh and more chemical and bio weapons than the US.
So when millions of African, European, Asian immigrants give up their jobs and families and move to the U.S. and end-up jobless and homeless, sure there is hate. American response is well no one promised you a rose garden.
Russia is no longer a super power. if that's what you use to decide than Great Britian would qualify before Russia would.
Also, most immigrants who come here don't end up homeless. Have you ever seen the homeless in an American city? The very vast majority are poor White and Black Americans.
Here are the languages spoken, with number of speakers in my home zip code right here in the good old USA. As you can guess, lot of immigrants...
English 13,797
All languages other than English combined 5,142
Spanish or Spanish Creole 1,642
Italian 1,000
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole 929
French (incl. Patois, Cajun) 199
Greek 153
Chinese 145
French Creole 142
German 103
Tagalog 100
Other Asian languages 84
African languages 79
Thai 78
Japanese 67
Polish 64
Gujarathi 46
Hindi 45
Other Slavic languages 37
Arabic 31
Hebrew 28
Korean 27
Other Pacific Island languages 25
Persian 23
Other Indo-European languages 20
Scandinavian languages 14
Other West Germanic languages 14
Urdu 13
Serbo-Croatian 8
Russian 8
Other Indic languages 6
Armenian 6
Yiddish 6
Hungarian 0
Laotian 0
Miao, Hmong 0
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian 0
Navajo 0
Other and unspecified languages 0
Other Native North American languages 0
Vietnamese 0
Total: 18,939
There is nothing extraordinary or different about that however, you could be describing any suburb in Australia and many other countries. This is my post code.
1 English 6,338
2 Punjabi 103
3 Mandarin 93
4 Hindi 92
5 Cantonese 76
6 Greek 75
7 Spanish 69
8 Korean 68
9 Italian 66
10 Vietnamese 57
11 Malayalam 54
12 Tagalog 50
13 Serbian 44
14 Gujarati 43
15 Persian 39
16 Indo-Aryan, nfd 38
17 Bosnian 37
18 Sinhalese 33
19 Japanese 33
20 Thai 31
21 Tamil 31
22 Russian 31
23 French 31
24 Polish 31
25 Arabic 24
26 Filipino 22
27 Shona 19
28 German 18
29 Turkish 18
30 Croatian 19
31 Southern Asian Languages, nfd 15
32 Malay 15
33 Dari 14
34 Romanian 13
35 Hungarian 13
36 Dutch 13
37 Non-verbal, so described 11
38 Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 11
39 Portuguese 10
40 Indonesian 10
41 Telugu 9
42 Nepali 8
43 Swahili 8
44 Min Nan 8
45 Tigrinya 8
46 African Languages, nec 7
47 Lao 6
48 Hebrew 6
49 Fijian 6
50 Chinese, nfd 5
51 Urdu 5
52 Bemba 5
53 Danish 4
54 Ukrainian 4
55 Maori 4
56 Slovak 4
57 Czech 4
58 Hazaraghi 4
59 Krio 4
60 Creole, nfd 4
61 Tongan 4
62 Amharic 4
63 Norwegian 3
64 Pidgin, nfd 3
65 Other Southern Asian Languages 3
66 Khmer 3
67 Xhosa 3
68 Auslan 3
69 Luganda 3
70 Finnish 3
71 Bassa 3
72 Igbo 3
73 Cebuano 3
74 Bengali 3
75 Ewe 3
76 Dinka 3
77 Kirundi (Rundi) 3
78 Latvian 3
79 Bulgarian 3
80 Yoruba 3
81 Macedonian 3
82 Afrikaans 3
83 Mann 3
84 Tuvaluan 3
85 Temne 3
86 Hakka 3
87 Acholi 3
88 Irish Gaelic 3
90 Australian Indigenous Languages Other 3
91 Tswana 3
That is a mid class suburb in what is generally regarded as Australia's least diverse major city.
Russia is no longer a super power. if that's what you use to decide than Great Britian would qualify before Russia would.
The EU is the worlds largest super power, that it is not a single country anymore like in the old days may be difficult to accept for Americans or Russians.
Russia is no longer a super power. if that's what you use to decide than Great Britian would qualify before Russia would.
Also, most immigrants who come here don't end up homeless. Have you ever seen the homeless in an American city? The very vast majority are poor White and Black Americans.
The people who migrate to the USA don't hate it, and indeed often try to deflect criticisms of it when we meet with relatives from back home, or those who migrated elsewhere. With all its faults the USA is by far the most accommodating to immigrants.
The reason why the USA isn't liked by people who live elsewhere is that this country often behaves like the clumsy bully in the room, not listening to others.
Look at Iraq. We have made a mess of that entire region, and it is real hard to argue that George Bush's intervention improved things. Yes the very bully that I am referring to.
Now we have ISIS.
Ukraine. European country, yet the USA is involved, and in turns out that the Ukraine govt mightn't be much better off than the Russians.
We need to stay home and let the rest of the world solve its problems. We have more than enough of our own, and our mediocre standings when compared to most other wealth nations is evidence of that, when ever any metric of quality of life is cited.
Not complete listing Artemis, they take a lot of time I have to cut and paste data from SBS. This is the Entire West Sydney Urban Region listing about the top 50 most spoken languages.
The EU is the worlds largest super power, that it is not a single country anymore like in the old days may be difficult to accept for Americans or Russians.
You are delusional, my friend. Imagine if the world had to depend on the EU to intervene in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places. The USA is the only country that is willing to intervene militarily every time there is a crisis somewhere.
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