美国是世界上最好的国家吧美国是世界上最发达的国家吗( 二 ) _小知识

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网友Lee The的回答
What do you mean “greatest”? It’s big but it’s not the biggest. It’s populous but it’s not the most populous. It’s a democracy but international rankings of countries by level of democracy put America in the second rank “flawed democracy” around #15 or thereabouts. It’s rich in natural resources but not uniquely so. It’s in the temperate latitudes but is prey to violent weather and, in the West, earthquakes. It has upward mobility but less than in the past and less than some other democracies. Women have a broad range of rights but other countries have more women in leadership roles in government.
你说“最棒”是什么意思？美国面积很大，但不是最大的。美国人口众多，但不是人口最多的。它是一个民主制国家，但根据国家民主水平的国际排名，美国排在第二；在“有缺陷的民主”排名中大约排15名左右。美国拥有丰富的自然资源，但并非独一无二。美国地处温带但极易受到恶劣天气的影响，在西部还会发生地震。它经济在增长，但比过去少，比其他一些民主国家少。女性拥有广泛的权利，但在其他国家管理层中有更多的女性担任。
It does lead the world in popular culture, in part because American popular culture is a fusion of many international influences, making it a culture that many around the world can see a bit of their own culture in it.
美国确实在流行文化方面领先于世界，部分原因是美国流行文化融合了许多国际因素，使它成为一种世界各地的许多人都能从中看到自己文化的文化。
And it does have the world’s most powerful military in terms of capability at fighting a war against another sizeable country. However, it has fallen short in understanding the hybrid warfare practiced proficiently by both China and Russia, our main international adversaries.
就作战能力而言，美国确实拥有世界上最强大的军队。然而，对美国主要的国际对手中国和俄罗斯所熟练实施的混合战术缺乏了解。
Lastly, it’s the world’s first large-scale democracy—the cradle of modern democracy—but like many if not most pioneering projects, it suffers from anachronisms more recent democracies learned to avoid from seeing our example. And since unlike the world’s other modern democracies, it was founded as a slaver nation, the specter of how slavery degrades both the slaves and the slavers, even though slavery was outlawed a century and a half ago, remnants of slave and slaver culture continue to cast a shadow over the country.
最后，美国有世界上最大规模的民主制度，也是现代民主制度的摇篮，但与许多最具开创性的项目一样，它也受到了时代错误的影响，近代的民主国家学会了不以我们为榜样。与世界上其他现代民主国家不同的是，美国是作为一个奴隶国家建立的，尽管奴隶制在一个半世纪前被宣布为非法，但奴隶和奴隶文化的残余继续给这个国家投下阴影。
The result of those anachronisms is a democracy in which its rural/small town conservative demographic wields far more voting power than its numbers alone would justify. And because this demographic tends to be uneducated and ignorant of critical thinking, it’s prey to being manipulated by demagogues. Hence Trump.
一些时代性错误导致的结果是，在美国民主制度中，农村的保守派人口拥有的投票权远远超过其人数本身所能代表的话语权。因为这些人往往没有受过教育，也不懂得批判性思维，所以他们很容易被煽动者操纵。比如川普。
But whether it’s “great” in some noble, morally superior way or not, what is for sure is that right now it’s the most important nation on Earth. Americans may not generally know much about the world, but the world is always aware of America and what it’s up to.
无论美国是否以某种高尚、道德的方式“伟大”，但可以肯定的是，它现在是地球上最重要的国家。美国人可能对世界了解不多，但世界总是了解美国所作所为。
美国网友Matthew Lallo的回答
It isn’t. Check which country is first in science and math. It isn’t the US and not even in the top 20. Infant mortality in the “greatest “ country in the world?
不是，看看哪个国家在科学和数学方面领先，它不是美国，甚至不是前20名。美国只有世界上“最高的”婴儿si亡率！
美国网友Ernest W.Adams的回答
Growing up in the richest, most powerful nation in the world and one of the ones with the largest population creates a very distorted perspective on the world. It's like being the child of a billionaire or of the president of the United States. You really have no baseline from which to judge what “normal” is. Americans have come to believe that the United States is the best at everything because throughout the late 20th century either it really was, or it did not know about areas in which it was not. So when you point out that the United State's infant mortality rate is absurdly high for the richest country on the planet, it doesn't compute. If you're a liberal, you get angry and become activist. How could we have screwed up so badly as to not be the best at keeping babies alive? If you're a conservative, you dismiss the data as biased (a liberal conspiracy to justify taking your tax money to treat babies… probably foreign illegal brown crack babies at that!) or accurate but irrelevant (it's more important to have the best nuclear weapons than the healthiest babies).

美国是世界上最好的国家吧 美国是世界上最发达的国家吗( 二 )

美国是世界上最好的国家吧美国是世界上最发达的国家吗( 二 )