Sunday, January 8, 2017
Introduction
American people have seem to always have an optimistic view of the United States’ superiority to all other nations but according to most studies within the last 5 years, the US has gone down in ranking worldwide significantly. The question is whether or not citizens are aware and chose to ignore it, or are perhaps misinformed?
People who are uneducated about current rankings of world countries creates a domino effect which begins a cycle of negligence leading to less desire to change how things in America work now. Acknowledgement of areas where the United States needs improvement, like education and other economic factors, is the first step to begin the climb back to the top of the world rankings.
Some of America’s most sought-after qualities are actually where we lack severely like education and freedom. Most Americans feel extremely confident in the education system even though it has barely changed in the last 50 years. But when you think of the change that has occurred in the past 50 years in other areas like car development, cell phone development, and city development, everything but education has transformed entirely.
The United States was ranked 47th out of 198 countries in best educational system which is partly due the the failure of the transfer and application of newer research into schools. What this means is newer research is not being integrated into schools nearly as fast as research is being published. When you look around in a current high school, you will see most of the textbooks being used to teach things were published anywhere from 2000-2010. That leaves a minimum of almost 7 years of hard work not being taught to society because of the failure to update things.
Education Comparison
This juxtaposition emphasizes the neglect of improvements in schools across the United States.
Education Rankings
Japan is ranked first with an educated population percentage of 99.97%. A few rankings lower than
Japan is Sri Lanka who has a percentage of 96.17%, followed by Kuwait at 95.36%, then finally in 47th
place comes the United States of America at 95.33%.
Japan is Sri Lanka who has a percentage of 96.17%, followed by Kuwait at 95.36%, then finally in 47th
place comes the United States of America at 95.33%.
There is what may appear a small gap between Kuwait and America of .03%; however, it is a little percentage that will suffer from lack of an education that would unlock incredible potential that could push development to a whole new level. These disappointing rankings show Americans how urgent it is to put more of an emphasis of budget on education and maybe a little less on military funding.
Studies groups that classify the level of freedom in a country rank them on subcategories like access to contraceptives, religious freedom, corruption rates, marriage age, and percentage of people who report being unable to reach their dreams. The highest freedom ranking is in Finland with a whopping percentage of 91.54%, which is way less than the top education ranking which exemplifies the lesser push governments have towards freedom and rights than education.
Continuing down the list, one can find Germany at 84.85% and in 15th place. Then finally, we get to the 16th ranking which enlists the US at a percentage of 82.64%. Imagine that. Americans, who brag excessively about the ample amount of freedom that can be found in the US, is 20% less free than they are presumed to have.
One of the other factors calculated into the formula of coming up with the percentages of freedom is crime rates against minorities per 1000 people. If anyone has seen the news within the past 3 months, the hate crimes towards minorities in the US has gone up due to neglect for other cultures and stereotypes.
Because of these past few months, it is not a surprise that America comes in 40th with 4.5 crimes per 1000 people. To some these statistics may look not all that bad, but when put into perspective, they appear a lot worse.
Think about it in terms of a medium sized high school with roughly 3000 students. This means if the percentage of students that were minorities was the same as the US population in 2012, only 1,500 students would qualify as a minority. Then from that pool of people, approximately 14 people will be victims of hate crimes which could include shootings, false accusations, or illegal stereotyping. That number of people that will be affected is fourteen times too high for the 21st century.
Existing Divisions
The structure of the United States is growing less stable because of divisions that are being created by the people.
Conclusion
In conclusion, people seem to overestimate the magnificence of ‘The All-Powerful Country of Freedom’, when in reality, it really struggles with most statistics that are supposed to support the claim of greatness. Coming to the realization of this problem is probably the hardest yet most important part in changing things for a better tomorrow. As most people say, admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery which is what we, as a society, need to do for sake of a potential turnaround.
The ultimate goal for this blog is to spark within you the competitive side that will want us to help change the world. I encourage you to take a look around at the society and push it to become great and respectable. Also when you really begin to think about the U.S’ history, when were we ever great?
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