#Heel said:
When foreigners learn English they learn American English (obviously the supirior form) because more people in the world are exposed to Americans and American culture. I mean c'mon, we're basically the highest world power. What are they supposed to do? Refuse our wealth? It would be quite odd if every American immigrant talked in a British accent.
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Refuse your wealth? Doesn't America owe a substantial debt to China, and suffering great deals of unemployment and abandonment of many schools and houses in classical industrial towns such as Detroit due to the lack of employment, rendering America with many of the attributes considered to be a defining factor of a third world country with a 1st world military in similar effect to the Soviet Union's rise towards the end of the cold war?
I'm probably wrong but I'm really curious about how your economic standing is currently as the last I heard it was very shaky. Not trying to start a big national debate as I hold little care in national pride.
Sources : http://newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/573/Detroits-Unemployment-Rate-Is-Nearly-50.aspx
About the schools : http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/apr2011/dpsc-a01.shtml
About China : http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/ss/How-Much-US-Debt-Does-China-Own.htm