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'Newsweek' Editor Declares Era of 'American Exceptionalism is Over'
News Busters. ^ | May 5, 2008 | Geoffrey Dickens

Posted on 05/05/2008 11:50:22 AM PDT by george76

NBC's "Today" show invited on "Newsweek International" editor Fareed Zakaria to promote his book "The Post-American World," on Monday's show and during his segment the author depicted the United States as a nation in decline as he declared the "era" of "'American exceptionalism' is over."

As examples of America's declining standing in the world the "Newsweek" editor cited such facts as China now having the "Largest ferris wheel in the world," Minneapolis' "Mall of America" no longer being the largest in the world and Macau having surpassed Las Vegas in the size of their casinos.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fareed; fareedzakaria; media; msm; newsweek; oldmedia; zakaria
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To: ejonesie22
Yeah, you may get a 1/2 of a fifth at best by the time I get there...

Do they sell whiskey in "tenths"? :)

61 posted on 05/05/2008 12:37:28 PM PDT by TonyInOhio ( Dedicated to the preservation of American Exceptionalism)
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To: wolfcreek

The Romans were still able to kick anyone’s ass in year 300 A.D. But the end was near for them.


62 posted on 05/05/2008 12:38:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Oh, cool. I didn't realize that "white" success was a barometer for our country.

Our country is doing just fine.
63 posted on 05/05/2008 12:39:50 PM PDT by Reaganomical
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To: george76

Read it. Vastly simplistic.


64 posted on 05/05/2008 12:39:59 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fifty years ago, Jewish Americans, one to two generations from Eastern Europe, were overrepresented in elite colleges and on honor rolls relative to their population size. East Asians and Indians appear to be following in their footsteps. By my observations, if the immigrants from India in our country were representative of their nation, India would be the number one nation in the world, far greater than the United States, China, Russia, or any other nation. However, we seem to be getting the best and the brightest. This is clearly not the case with regard to Latin American immigrants.


65 posted on 05/05/2008 12:40:53 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: george76
I'm a little confused here. Why is America so hated around the world? I always thought it was because of our military strength and cultural influence. Someone needs to tell the man on the street that the US is a paper tiger, then they can love us.
Instead of Ferris wheels to guage a nation’s power maybe they could use something more practical, like I don't know, the number of aircraft carriers.
66 posted on 05/05/2008 12:43:04 PM PDT by slackerjack
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To: gridlock

The only advantage of the Imperial System is that we grew up with it.


67 posted on 05/05/2008 12:43:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: george76

They’ve been predicting the demise of the U.S.A. since the day after Yorktown.


68 posted on 05/05/2008 12:46:47 PM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The only advantage of the Imperial System is that we grew up with it.

Ask a three year old to break a stick of gum in halves, and he will be right to within 5%. Now try asking him to break off a tenth... He will not have a clue.

The human mind naturally breaks things down into halves, quarters, etc. Nobody has a good, instinctive feel for a tenth.

Now, if our numbering system was based on binary or eights, then the decimal systems would make a lot of sense. Unfortunately, we were cursed with ten fingers, so we have a ten-based numbering system that makes no sense at all. The metric system expands that nonsense into measurements.

So, if the rest of the World adopts Base-8 numbering, maybe we can take another look at the Metric System.

69 posted on 05/05/2008 12:55:06 PM PDT by gridlock (“The natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America - - Ann Coulter)
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To: Enchante

If China is so exceptional, why is it that I get bombarded with email from degreed Chinese professionals who want a job in the US?


70 posted on 05/05/2008 1:01:53 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: george76

And of course, all the great inventions, procedures, innovations etc. all come from outside the USA.


71 posted on 05/05/2008 1:03:20 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: george76

he must be thinking about Newsweek’s circ


72 posted on 05/05/2008 1:05:38 PM PDT by Uncledave (Journalists resent bloggers for the same reason prostitutes resent nymphomaniacs)
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To: george76

“Largest ferris wheel in the world,”

I didn’t know that was a main requirement for who leads the world.


73 posted on 05/05/2008 1:07:00 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Yes we are in decline. The best students in our math and science programs at universities are all asians and indians. How many White Americans would you see enrolled in such programs nowadays?”

Actually I see quite a few “white” students in the sciences, but what’s your point? If you’re saying there are tons of foreign nationals coming to the US for an education in the sciences, then that must mean we have excellent science programs in our universities.


74 posted on 05/05/2008 1:07:38 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: gridlock

Sounds like a crusade.

I wonder if you’ll have as much success as the US did back in the late 70’s getting rid of the English measurement system.


75 posted on 05/05/2008 1:07:47 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: george76
To my fellow Freepers on this thread. Please read the entire interview as the editor of Newsweek make some very good points:

1) We have been very successful at exporting capitalism and it is paying off. More countries are becoming less impoverished and more affluent. Entrepreneurship is one the rise in areas like Singapore, China and India. Thats a good thing as the marketplace becomes more crowded but with a lot to choose from. We need to be wary as competition is going to get more intense and the American worker ignores this at his/her own peril. Just in the pharmaceutical industry alone we face fierce competition with emerging Asian companies. In my R&D department we have a significant number of staff who are recent Chinese immigrants and they are some of the hardest workers as a group I have seen.

2) Even Rush Limbaugh lament that none of the Presidential candidates are promoting American exceptional-ism. Both Reagan and Bush appealed to the inherent greatness of this nation in their campaigns. Democrats are always talking down the nation as a cynical means of acquiring power to “change” things. But McCain isn't much better. But Fareed Zakaria said one line that is a load of BS is that he thinks that Obama IS talking to it, I guess he was been out of the country Ooohing and Aaahing the big ferris when that he missed the whole Jeremiah Wright fiasco and the lines about bitter Americans with their guns and religion.

76 posted on 05/05/2008 1:10:35 PM PDT by Pharmer (How am I supposed to rule the world when I surrounded by freakin liberal idiots!)
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To: george76

We were in Macau last February. The casinos did not look larger than Vegas by a long shot, but they were claiming that in 2006 they exceeded Vegas in total dollars gammbled. A lead they will not soon surrender.


77 posted on 05/05/2008 1:12:53 PM PDT by purpleraine
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To: MinorityRepublican

They didn’t have nukes. Changes the way the game is played.


78 posted on 05/05/2008 1:13:20 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: MrB
Sounds like a crusade.

Step One is we all lop off our pinky fingers. You first!!!

79 posted on 05/05/2008 1:13:38 PM PDT by gridlock (“The natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America - - Ann Coulter)
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To: kingattax

.........AND Yao Ming.


80 posted on 05/05/2008 1:14:40 PM PDT by purpleraine
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