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Well it's a question that not everyone that bought into the American Dream are happier coming here. People are sold on the glitz and glamour and "the better life" but also become dissilusioned.

Materialism is not a good thing - the fact that there are materialistic people in other countries who wish to come to the west to "do even better" in this regard is not exactly a sound testimonial. Priorities are truly screwed up out there.

Technology is a funny thing in audio because most of the technological advances are miniturization and related to working with the home decor than actually sounding better IMV. I'm not at all saying I am against technological advancement just ones that matter -- the west hardly stands alone in research on things that matter.

I think plays and films like "Death of a Salesman" and "Before Night Falls" reveal some of this. After talking to a Chinese Woman here on a business trip about her Communist rule and freedom well there was no hint of wishuing to come here -- quite the opposite.

The typical American gets into their car goes to a job where they are watched on camera all day for fear of starting a Union, has to take drug tests because they may have in their personal life took a puff of a naturally growing substance that government and religious whackos has deemd the devil's plant (even though scientifically it is far less harmful than booze) and they get into their car (Japanese if built well American if a piece of junk) and drive home stopping at Mcdonalds to get the family meal while picking their kids up from school where the teachers are talking about healthy eating but nobody has time because they're working 12 hour days glues to cell phones and getting paid for 8 hours. (Unions of course are evil). Their kid gets into a fight or does poorly - well that is everyone else's fault - the school, the TV, other kids, no responsibility and since tired parents are there from 6:30 till bedtime glued to the tv where George Bush is justifying spying on you and bombing countries for no good reason and with sports programs diverting intellectual debate then I wonder why this is what people view as freedom.

America is the land of financial opportunity especially, and only (but this is not mentioned) for rich foreigners to get even richer.

Don't get me wrong there is plenty of worse places to be but Capitalism unchecked (which it is) is a dreadful system for society.

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