America's Contribution to Human Civilization
- andycoolposted 11 years ago
0 Capitalism in its ultimate form is one of the contributions of America to the rest of the world. Nobody can turn America into a socialist country... if the US economy has to revive that is only possible following a capitalist way, that's why Obama-nomics should be kept aside in the next Presidential election by American voters.
The Simpsons and American Dad have made huge contributions to human civilisation by giving Americans a good look at both sides of itself.
With a lot of these things people from places other than America were also engaged in trying to develop them; but America has certainly also made substantial contributions when it comes to things like:
The electric light bulb, the telephone, the airplane, the lightning rod, the television, automation, space exploration, medicine, science in general, aid/charity to people who need it in other countries (one study a few years ago showed that individual American citizens make enough personal contributions to charities around the world that that it amounts to more than contributions from foundations, the government, private industry, etc combined). Maybe this is not exclusively American, but US agencies are sending food (for example a peanut-butter paste) that is bringing impoverished babies and children back from the brink of starvation. There's an American group of mothers who are donating mother's milk to starving infants in Africa as well.) All the stuff mentioned here is just a few of many things if the question is whether or not America contributes anything to the world.
Then again, if the question is what contributions can be uniquely and exclusively attributed only to America in its 235 years of existence then that, of course, would change the answers here. There was a whole lot of world and history that existed before America became a country. Still, I don't think it's done all that badly (in terms of contributions, exclusive or otherwise, to the world.
I don't want to come across like a "flag-waving, blinders-wearing, patriotic-type" (Heaven forbid!), but sometimes (especially, maybe, on this site, a lot of people seem to have those blinders on when it comes to not wanting to see anything positive about America, or else they just won't dare say anything positive because they're either afraid they'll bring about the wrath or scorn of someone else, or else they'll offend someone. (Of course, a lot of people younger than, say, 35 (even 40) or so, don't really even really recall much about a world or history before the invention of the Internet. They haven't spent too many adult years without it, if at all. That may explain the apparent "not noticing" of a whole lot of things about some types of contributions that have taken place before, and beyond, the Internet.)
(By the way, how did this thread turn into being about Hitler??? Hitler was neither American nor someone who "made a contribution to the world".
)Thanks a lot Lisa HW for your comprehensive reply! I would request you to write a hub about it. Thanks again for sharing!
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