Not to get off topic...but NAFTA was signed when I was 4...my entire life I've watched the life drain out of my county seat, which used to be a GM hub, with Delco at one time employing 80%-90% of the population. With one stroke of the pen we signed away our future. :down:

You know, that's just the kind of commie pinko question they used to ask on internet forums in Nazi Germany.

Don't worry Krauter, I think most people can differ and judge someone by the words they say and by the things they have in their mind and brain, not by their physical age.

We'll never go backwards. And it's not like we are going to stay the same technology wise. We'll always be advancing.

No. Just no.

Other countries will advance technologically. We'll buy or inherit those technologies or ideas; but it's going to be a long time until America is once again an innovator. That's how the cookie crumbles. Nations rise and fall. We've been on top for 200 years, I'd say we've had a good run...but as I stated previously, we've signed away our producing power. All we have now is purchasing power, and that's the only thing that's keeping us safe. Once all the jobs are gone, we may not even have that.

But right now everything is American. Companies are American. Hollywood is American. The universal language is English. And the United States still dominates politics, military, culture, and the economy.

I think that this isn't the proper place to discuss hegemony. This thread has gone on far longer than it needed to because of the dramatic shifts of topic. You want to continue this discussion, start a new thread in GT. Let me advise you that I think you're completely missing the point when it comes to what we have possessed as compared to what we possess now as compared to what we're going to possess in the future.

Uhh.. no.. Wow. What the hell kind of things are you learning in school? Oh wait, it's just for sex and chilling out with friends, my bad. Where I'm from, schools actually teach and students aren't a bunch of little dipsh!t knowitall teens.

Companies in America owe huge debt to overseas companies in Europe and Asia,

Hollywood is Hollywood, there will never really be any huge competitor (in my eyes, someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

Universal language right now is English but in the next 10-15 years bet your ass that the majority of the population on Earth will split their languages between Mandarin or Arabic.

Politics in the States right now are laughable, indeed politics in Canada are at the same state too :shifty:..

Militarily yeah sure I see the U.S on top for the next few decades merely for its leftover prowess from the Cold War. Sorry to say it but my prediction for how the American nation will end up is in a similar state to Russia today. To me, a superpower can only remain that when it has a competitor and the resources to remain so, after said competitor is gone, things start falling apart and eventually the nation will consume itself from the inside.

Economically. Kid, really? Have you looked to the East and seen how much debt China and Japan hold out on the U.S? That, and with India and China quickly rising to be the next superpowers, I don't think that the U.S is going to be near the top of the food chain economically.

Krauter

India is very much the future of the entertainment industry. Everything else you said is pretty much spot on.

I didn't know that you were 18. Let's hope that you can run all three branches of government, as well as the numerous cabinets and committees and the DoD by yourself. Otherwise, we're screwed.

What is the name for the indian entertainment industry? Bollywood or something? :hmmm:

Edit: Seems Bollywood is just a piece of the larger indian entertainment industry

I understand completely. I was old enough to understand what was happening when I watched NAFTA drive the last nail in the coffin of Bethlehem Steel, a company that helped build some little known projects as the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge. That was a very sad day for America.

Now the old Bethlehem Steel Works is a friggin' casino. This isn't AC or Vegas, so people do not come to the Lehigh Valley to gamble. That casino preys on the community, leeching much more money from them than it ever returns in the way of employment figures.

Yes, they use 'Bollywood' as a colloquialism as we do 'Hollywood'.

Yes but according to Wiki, Bollywood is only one facet of the entire indian industry

My personal favorite is Nollywood - the Nigerian film industry. They turn out film classics like "Baby Police": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWjt...layer_embedded

Just like all film production does not take place within the confines of Hollywood.

Forgive my ignorance :DL

Ignorance? Errors are how you learn. We need legions of young people such as you.

One can only learn when one is open to criticism and feedback

Learning? Kids aren't supposed to be learning! They're supposed to be hanging out and having sex with adults and running the world.

Wow, a fecesload of interesting topics derived from this troll's thread. :up:

ok, I try to adress some points:

Bolly-/Hollywood:

from the output of films they are both equal in amount, but for most of us who are raised in western culture the Bollywood productions look strange and unappealing. On a global scale I would just say that Hollywood productions just meet the taste of the masses - and have the biggest production and PR budget ;)
When we speak of Hollywood outside of the US we mean generally all big-budget productions from the States, regardless if they were shot in Berlin, Germany or Berlin, KY.
Yes, Hollywood dominates the global market, but in terms of quality I am a big fan of the independent cinema. USA, Scandinavia today, France, Italy, Japan in the 60s-80s.
Personally I think the most innovative moving pictures which come from the states are series productions of the cable networks, They have great authors and most important take the time to tell a story and don't shy off to touch controversial themes.


the decline of the heavy industry
The region where I was raised was also dominated by the heavy industry. It went down in the 80s till the 00's. Sadly it never fully recovered from it's decline. I must add that our tertiary sector (service industry) was much lower in terms of percentages than in North America, but anyway it was not able to replace all the lost jobs. So I cannot give away muich hope here...:cry:

next: the dumbing down of the people/pupils (us:students :03:) - gotta grab some food and a beer first :cool: