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Or we see the problems in other countries that have such systems and think we can provide better solutions. That's not to say the current system is the best, bu
by brodouevencode 4y ago
Or we see the problems in other countries that have such systems and think we can provide better solutions. That's not to say the current system is the best, but that's not what many want either.
- Sharlin 4y agoI'm pretty sure most Americans don't "see" anything outside the US. Even on Hacker News you see the phenomenon where people tend to dismiss solutions popular and proven to work everywhere else as somehow hypothetical and untested, or at least immediately confabulate some random knee-jerk reason why "it could never work in the US". American exceptionalism is truly a force to be reckoned with.
- tomrod 4y agoNah, in my experience many Americans do, especially those that have the privilege to leave home (study abroad, move to a new place far away, etc.).
- ss108 4y agoI would say that those of us in the US who are more or less "coastal elite" types are probably just kind of sophomoric about how things work in Europe. I think a lot of us have a simplified and rosy picture of how European systems work, but if we were pressed on the details, would have to concede our ignorance lol
- hotpotamus 4y agoI can't find the quote, but I believe it was one of the physicists involved in the Manhattan Project who said that the greatest secret of nuclear weapons is that they were feasible to engineer at all. Just by dropping them, the US let that secret out and ensured that other countries began engineering them. I feel like American Exceptionalism has just turned into collective denial.
- krapp 4y agoAlthough we now know Russia had spies infiltrating the Manhattan project, so the cat was out of the bag either way.
- scythe 4y agoThe Allies also had spies sabotaging the Nazis' nuclear program, which may certainly have prevented WWII from being a lot worse.
- Sharlin 4y agoThere were many reasons, including the fact that the Nazis weren't nearly Manhattan Project level serious enough about pursuing nuclear weapons, and simply lacked the brainpower that had emigrated en masse before the war.
- tchalla 4y agoYou will see this phenomena on discussion forums like r/science Study participants based out of USA : Most discussion focussed on the study Study participants based outside of USA : The study is not conclusive because the study is done somewhere else and not generalisable. They don't say "it doesn't apply to US"; but rather they are "not generalisable".