--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Roland, > > There are many myths propagated about Americans by > Indians but none that I dislike more than the one > that assumes intellectual superiority over > Americans. America is home to be best and > brightest, and I find it incredibly hard to believe > that Harvard and Yale students failed IIT entrance > exams while reciprocally IITs aced University > tests. > Mario adds: > Selma, The myth you speak of is also propagated by the false comparison between Harvard and Yale and the IIT's, because it like comparing apples and oranges. > Harvard and Yale are best known for liberal arts, business management, the law and general education, whereas the IITs focus on math, science and engineering. > A more valid comparison for the IIT's would be MIT, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon and the engineering schools at Michigan, Illinois, Purdue and Georgia Tech. How many people would know that all the IITs have used the resources and expertise of the major American universities in their own development, and continue to do so? > America's superiority manifests itself in producing results by unashamedly welcoming to its shores the financial resources and brainpower of the entire world which ultimately benefits all it's citizens and then ripples over the rest of the world. The world has come to appreciate that their resources and brainpower can reliably and routinely be maximized in the intellectually fertile American environment and general lack of xenophobia and intellectual paranoia, which befits a country that was formed by the world and belongs to it. > It takes incredible wisdom, confidence and foresight for a country to routinely run trade deficits to benefit other countries and it's own citizens through lower prices and better choices from imported products and services, and then provide an economic environment which attracts the surpluses back to the US in terms of exports and short and long term investments. >
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