With the announcement of Edmund Phelps as the latest Nobel Price winner in economics, Americans have swept the Nobels in sciences this year. What an incredible achievement! We should expect to see more Americans to win the prizes in the future because America is such a vibrant and open country that I don't see any threat of any kind in this area.
In discussion of America's vibrancy, I don't need to name how many important progresses in history were invented here in America. We all know the innovations are driven by capitalism and it is well protected by America's political and legal system. The openess of America can be best indicated by the number of Bush-haters in this country. There are millions (probably billions) of people all around the world that don't like George W. Bush, but if we count how many people truly "hate" Bush, the number in the US would far exceed the sum of the genre in the rest of the world. For me, that is how Americans reflect, debate, and move forward.
If the people on Capitol Hill or in the White House don't do anything stupid as to undermine America's capitalism and democracy, I don't see any reason to doubt whether the US will thrive in the future. Of the eight people in my batch in this program, none of us was born in the US. It is the spirits of America that drew us here and I really hope that we can make the rest of the world be more like America.
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