[Soothesayer9]

"Perhaps instead of telling 2 entire generations that the most important thing is some ethereal "happiness" we should have stressed things like, financial security, responsibility and honor."

The Chinese also don't have the punishing EPA regs that we do. They dont give a damn about smog, spotted owls, or lake pollution. Macau is friendlier to business than the U.S. is, but at the end of the day they are still COMMUNISTS and quite proud of it. A friend who lived in China asked many there what they thought on 9/11. The overwhelming response was "they finally got a bloody nose and they deserved it!".

[douginthearmy]

Wendy Mao is an American. She is not a Chi-Com. It is not EPA regulations that keeps white Americans from pursuing math and science. It is a culture of doing what feels good at the moment.