Don't let your babies grow up to be programmers

[Arthur]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:35:30 +0200, aleaxit at yahoo.com (Alex Martelli)
wrote:

>
>_Some_ US observers are clear-sighted enough to see how much hate this
>kind of behavior builds up in the world over the years.  But obviously
>not enough.

I don't have the differential equations at my fingertips to prove it,
but have in fact been involved in international business transactions
my entire career, and in part based on this non-abstract experience
would contend that there is much more hatred than justified by the
facts.

If the U.S. is winning, it must be cheating.

Yes, it gets involved in trade wars on particular fronts.  And fights
those wars hard enough. but those are particular fronts, for
particular reasons.  

Which then provide some ammunition for polemicists. 

Which is unfortunately how I hear your post.

If held to no more than the standards of the rest of the realized
world, the U.S. is the example, not the counter-example. Perhaps I
have the particular view of a provincial New Yorker, but I see U.S.'s
greatest asset, and its greatest competitive advantage, to be its
diversity.  It does business comfortably anywhere in the world,
because everywhere in the world is well represented in its population.
It was more luck than altruism that relatively open immigration
policies made more sense here than it might have, for example, in the
Old World.  But among the results is the fact that Nerw York is
already well globalized, without needing to get out of bed.

And the impact of the the energy of this brew is then labeled a new
imperialism.  

Bah.


Art